he is 8 (almost nine, he will add if you ask him) and his name is
wyatt. that tube is out and his sweet smile and contagious giggles are
back in full effect but that was my view at midnight last night. his
mother is my cousin and one whom i have always looked up to. a novel
could be written about her and the amazing example she sets as a wife,
mother, friend but most importantly…a woman of Godly character. for
her, this last week, these last 24 hours…it has probably felt as if the
world has stopped turning.
they ran into each other on the playground. head to head, they met,
at the tip of the corner and went down for the count. both with serious
concusions, wyatt and his friend received the medical care that seemed
to fix it all and were sent home. but wyatt wasn’t getting better.
five days after his first trip to the urgent care, he woke up with two
black eyes and told his sweet mama, “my head is squishy. why?”. back
to the hospital and the doctors find a fracture in his skull and blood.
blood that is still bleeding blood. not in a good place blood. blood
that needs to stop, and soon, or else surgery is required. all from a
run in on the playground.
here’s the cool thing.
wait…scratch that. here is the coolest thing. i remember holding
wyatt when he was first born and having him come visit me in the
hospital when i had my first baby (see above). such a handsome little
guy. as he grew up, there was a slightly noticeable difference in the
shape of his head. doctors called it “mild malformation”. much testing
was done but nothing really ever came of it. it seemed as if doctors
were a bit baffled by this mild difference and so it was left as that.
turns out, this mild malformation saved his life. most of us don’t
have this extra pocket in our skull that wyatt has. most of us would
have died from a similar injury since our blood would have had no where
to go and the pressure on our brains would have been deathly
overwhelming. but he had this pocket. this mild little space that
could hold one pint of blood in it and keep him alive for a period of
time long enough to allow doctors to be able to fix it all. that isn’t
mild to me.
for you created my innermost being:
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
i praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made:
your works are wonderful, i know that full well.
my frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in a secret place.
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
all the days ordained for me where written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalms 139:13-16
to think that what once baffled the doctors and the family and the
testing…to think that mild change was created for a specific purpose…for
a specific moment in time. to bask in the awesomeness of knowing that
what seemed to be a problem was really a plan. what seemed a concern is
now a comfort. how great is our God…
i know i pleaded with my friends on facebook and begged my prayer
partners in email, for you all to cover him and his family in prayers.
there are times when prayers are not answered the way that we wish them
to be and it is hard to praise God in those moments. but there are
times when we are blessed beyond all measure and our prayer are answered
exactly as we poured them out. this is one of those times. and i hope
this one moment in time will forever be a testimony to others who are
going through those moments when it is hard to utter praise. i hope,
wyatt, that this story will be forever on your lips. that God can take
your mild malformation and do intense things with it, not just this
week…but always.
thank you all for your prayers. the peace that was felt could have only been given to us. thank you.
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