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winston smith
My cousin sent me this e-mail with the picture attached, and I was so absolutely blown away when I saw it that I had to share it!
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Amazing! A blessing from God!


A picture began circulating in November.  It should be "The  Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the  Decade." It won't be.  In fact, unless you obtained a  copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.  The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.  The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb.  Little Samuel's  mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta.  She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in  Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via  C-section and makes  a small incision to operate on the  baby.  As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger.  Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he  was just frozen, totally immobile.  The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity.  The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope."  The text  explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of  21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if  thanking the doctor for the gift of life."  Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the  picture.  She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person."  Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.  Now see the actual picture, and it is  awesome...incredible....and hey, pass  it on.  The  world needs to see this one!


P.S. Don't tell me God isn't awesome!!!!!

cardinal
Winston,
That is truly awesome. Enough said.
amy
Thanks, Winston. Truly amazing. And isn't the fact the surgeon can go in and operate on the baby in utero also amazing? Remarkable!
carteblanche
Beautiful. Thank you Winston. yes2.gif
Teacher in SC
While this is certainly incredible to view, it has been posted before and other information surfaced as I recall, that the doctor said he'd actually reached in to do some sort of maneuver that involved this hand coming out, in his explanation, probably in reaction to pain from what was happening. Not that he wasn't also astonished by it, but his explanation wasn't quite the message being sent now.

This provides some balance, but it is still amazing what can be done to save babies in utero. I've known a mother-to-be who had ultrasound or whatever that told them their baby had spina bifada (sp) and had to deal with difficult decisions. She went on to have her baby, and it was miraculously in perfect health and did not have the condition that was expected by the doctors. It's good to know they can identify it early now and operate in utero.
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