My Mom was at Spaulding Rehab Cambridge,  in the Ventilator unit for quite some time and it was decided that they needed to try and withdraw the vent and the likelihood of her coming off it was not good because when you are on a ventilator for an extended period of time your body becomes use to the machine doing the work and sometimes will not pick up the function of breathing on its own, once again. My mom was awake and alert and the weining process began, slowly seeing if her body would in fact support her, The weing was a slow process,  took several days of reducing the ammount of support that the ventilator was doing and then she was off the ventilator, breathing on her own. Praise God!  Dr.S and all of us in our family were just so happy! God is faithful to those who love him. Amen !

The next obstacle that she tackled was that she could not speak. Her doctor explained that when the ventilator is in place  you cannot talk and it was in her throat for so long that damage could have been done to the vocal chords etc. Doctor S.  removed the plug in her neck,  I  guess you call it? She began to speak immediately words from of her mouth. The doctor was so impressed and we were so happy hearing moms voice once again. It had been months! The Holy Spirit of God took care of that need immediately. Like I said, it was and is the time of Miracles for all of us. 🙂 This whole health crisis/ event that occurred started at around April in her home and  it was now the Fall of 2011, She had been in Mt. Auburn, and at Spaulding this whole time with a very low expectation of survival. But, she had the peace of Christ and did not think that way. She saw Hope and had such Faith, She saw Victory. She was very ill, but still saw Victory through Christ/ God. Her Rosary was always in hand and her friends St. Michael and St. Raphael were right there with her .

I will continue shortly with my blog entry…. Mom, Mary, Michelle, Dotty, Elizabeth and Georgie what a beautiful story to share, God is just amazing in all that he is doing.

God Bless You,

Danny

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