Survivors Club

I have been reading a book called Survivors Club in which I saw the fascinating story of Ellin Klor who tripped one day and found a four inch knitting needle embedded in her chest. Miraculously, even though the needle went into her heart, she was not bleeding. She kept her wits about her until paramedics arrived. She was carefully moved to the hospital, where the needle was removed and her heart sewn up. The needle, while injuring her, had also saved her by keeping her heart sealed up during the trauma.

She wasn't done yet. A couple of weeks later, still feeling unwell, she returned to the hospital for a follow-up CT scan. The scan, while showing her injuries healing fine, also showed the early stages of breast cancer. Due to the early detection she was able to successfully fight the cancer.

So, what seemed to be a terrible injury, the knitting needles, turned out to be a life saver, as it led to early cancer detection. Click on her name above and you can get more details of the story.

Something similar happened to one of my children a year ago. He went for a MRI due to suspicion of having appendicitis. He did need to have his appendix removed. While looking at the MRI the doctor noticed something strange on his femur. It was a non-cancerous cyst which was eating away at the bone. Had it not been caught, he could have woken up one day and found his leg seriously cracked. This way, we were able to have him operated on, and the situation (which was reaching the critical point) was resolved.

Amazing how God works. What seems to be a difficult trauma, ends up saving a person from what was potentially even worse trauma. And these are just two stories in which we are able to clearly see what God did; how He used what seemed to be bad, for what was truly a good purpose.

Do we ever stop to think about the times that things go wrong, and we don't even realize how we are being protected from potential problems we don't even know existed? There is so much going on around us of which we are not even remotely aware. We need to use examples such as these to give us pause to realize that what looks like it is bad, may not be. Even if we don't know yet how or why.