What he was telling me was that there is no guarantee doing what he did to me, hand-massaging my heart back to normal sinus rhythm, was going to work even if it was tried. And it hadn't worked the few times he had done it before. I was the first for him to pull through. But in life and death situations you do what you can do to change the inevitable outcome. Living versus dying.
But as a doctor, he said he had a professional responsibility to try and save any patient's life no matter what the risk. But not all survive even with the effort to save them.
In his career and practice, he said it was a miracle I survived and wasn't a vegetable afterwards because of lack of oxygen to the brain during the procedure.
Thank God for His mercy and grace in giving you more years to be His instrument, to show His love and Truth in this world, to His glory, as you trust the Lord Jesus to spiritually save you by His sinless shed blood, as one who is as helpless to do so as you were physically to save yourself. May we be to others as the doctor’s hands physically were to you.
I am 67 and have not been under medical care since about 1978, but I do have angina and am getting increasingly tired.