Posted on 11/11/2018 2:58:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux
CBS Sacramento reported Friday that the neurosurgeons and specialists in charge of treating Paul Wood, a patient from Lodi, California, are scratching their heads after brain scans revealed his tumor disappeared the day before he was scheduled for surgery.
Wood, a father and volunteer in his community, noticed something was amiss several months ago when he could barely stand up straight.
The Lodi man went to his primary care doctor, who referred him to a neurosurgeon at UC San Francisco. The neurosurgeon said his brain was bleeding, but radiologists said there was evidence of a tumor.
Wood, who considers himself a man of faith, turned to his community for support. But what he did not expect was the overwhelming amount of prayer and support for him on social media.
My phone is blowing up, my Facebook is prayer after prayer, all over California, said Wood.
When doctors took another brain scan the day before his operation, they canceled the surgery because the tumor had disappeared.
Wood said it was nothing short of a miracle from God.
Its a miracle and that is the way God planned it, he said.
Woods doctor struggled to explain why the tumor disappeared, admitting that there are some things that we cant explain.
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Exactly. This piece never said the saw ant tumor but only “evidence” there was one present.
The surgery was obviously exploratory in nature to begin with and as you said the original scans were misread.
It is a funny thing but it does happen. GBMs (Glioblastoma Multiforme) are infrequent tumors in spite of our awareness of them with McCain and others famous having them. It takes decades of practicing neurosurgery to see 100 of them. It was at a conference years ago and a group of old neurosurgeons that had all had over 100 GBM patients presented their results and they each had one patient that just seemed to get better. How does one just get better from a GBM? No one knows but it does happen.
Yep...My wife had a small bleed stroke a few years ago....the blood shows up similar to something else being there and over time it is reabsorbed....since the first guy said it was a bleed, this is probably what happened.
My poor mom was scared to death because her mom died of breast cancer. Mom lived to be 90.
So, I agree...Not the first time someone screwed up.
Mr. Wood is own Fox and Friends right now telling his story.
Yep! That is what I was thinking.
So?...It makes me wonder about the those who may have undergone unnecessary brain surgery.
My son has a brain tumor. Today is day 208 in the hospital in the last 13 months. An MRI showed a tumor so they drilled holes in his head to get numerous samples to determine exactly what it was.
This guy obviously had something on his bran but it wasn’t a tumor. From first hand experience I can attest that brain tumors do not just go away because of prayer. They also do not just go away after massive amounts of drugs, chemo and radiation.
I wish your son all the best.
There have actually been cases of unexplained spontaneous cancer remissions. If you search ‘spontaneous cancer remissions’ you will see.
God is still in the business of miracles By Megan Schmidt
A “mysterious voice” led rescuers to find child who survived for 14 hours in submerged car:
In March 2015, Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, lost control of her car and landed in the icy Spanish Fork River in Utah.
Fourteen hours later, first responders found her 18-month-old daughter, Lily, in her car seat hanging upside down just above frigid river water.
Prior to finding Lily, both police officers and firefighters report that they heard an adult voice yell “Help me!” from inside the car.
They discovered that the voice could not have come from the young mother, who likely died from the impact.
https://www.raystedman.org/new-testament/thessalonians/changed-lives
Last week I received a letter from two of our missionaries in Guatemala, Ron and Gretchen Bruno. Gretchen wrote of an incident that had encouraged her greatly. A poor widow in one of the congregations in Guatemala was down to her last twenty cents and without food. She began to pray about her problem. As she was praying, she felt a deep conviction that God was telling her to go to the large supermarket in town the next day and fill up several carts with groceries and take them to checkout stand #7 for check out. This was not just a vague feeling on her part but a deep, Spirit-born conviction. She went to the supermarket the next morning, loaded enough groceries into carts to last two or three months, and took them to checkout stand #7. Just as she got there the cashier closed the stand to go out to lunch. She suggested that the woman take her groceries to another stand, but the woman said, “No, I cannot. My Father told me to take these through checkout stand #7.” So she waited while the clerk went to lunch and came back again. The clerk was surprised to see the woman still there, and started to check out her groceries. Just then an announcement came over the loudspeaker: “This is our seventh year of business and we are pleased to announce that whoever is checking out at checkout stand #7 gets free groceries.”
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10th October 2016
Christian doctor Brian D Rekus gives a thorough analysis of our question of whether miraculous healings really happen -
Heres another story: I regularly visit third world countries as part of medical relief teams. I was once in remote Mexico with a team treating very poor people as best we could. We had a very experienced otolaryngologist with us, and he was evaluating children for cleft lip and cleft palate repair. A young child was brought to him, and upon inspecting his nasal cavity, he discovered an obstructing tumor called nasopharyngeal cancer. These are universally fatal if not treated aggressively, and with the physicians vast experience, he was certain this was the diagnosis even without a biopsy. The parents were instructed to bring the child back the next day for surgery.
A group of people prayed with the family. The following morning they showed up with the child. Pre-operative checklists were done, and just before the child underwent anesthesia, the surgeon took one last look. There was no tumor. They summoned the parents, and told them they had brought the wrong child, but they insisted it was the same one. There was a great deal of conversation among our team, translators, and the family, but in the end we all bore witness that this was the same child. There was no rational or medical explanation for this; these tumors simply do not disappear overnight.
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As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
Neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” John 9:3
Get him on a low carb ketogenic diet ASAP, if not on one already.
My wife has stage 4 breast cancer so I’ve been doing a lot of research.
Please watch any youtube videos featuring Professor Thomas Seyfried of Boston College:
https://tinyurl.com/Seyfried-on-Youtube
Another good guy to watch is Dominic D’Agastino, associate professor at South Florida University:
https://tinyurl.com/Dr-Dom-on-Youtube
“I know God can do miracles. But I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if the doctors messed up the original diagnosis. “
BINGO! My first thought as well.
I also believe/know God can perform miracles.
Why not simply believe that God responded to prayer and healed this man? Jesus paid the price for his sickness on the Cross of Calvary. Jesus doesn’t want sickness for anyone.
I have had brain tumor surgery — twice. With modern imaging technologies and the risk of malpractice litigation, errors of the type you describe are extremely rare. On the whole, it seems more likely that there was a tumor but that, as sometimes happens, it was eliminated by the body’s immune system when it suddenly recognized the presence of a tumor. In the earliest stages, tumors are frequently eliminated that way, even if less so when they have become large enough to be a problem. The timing though of such a deliverance — on the eve of surgery and after a torrent of prayer — invites believers to see more at work than simple good luck.
The surgery was obviously exploratory in nature to begin with and as you said the original scans were misread. Possible, though with the risks of lawsuits today you would think that they would make diagnosis certain.
Do lower hernias hell themselves? I had one for for years after trying to (wrongly) lift hickory word as if it were pine, and had to be careful not to lift much after that (though for years as truck driver in milk delivery I had lifted at over 70lbs regularly from dock to ground). Otherwise I would have to lay down and let things recede.
Thus when vising a low-key church the offered prayer for healing, I went up and met a humble couple who prayed for me healing, and after that I had no more problems. And at only 5'5'' 130lbs i have, by the grace of God, lifted things from full-sized old washing machines up two floors (w/ a bigger guy on one end) to refers, and lots of heavy snow (almost got anther hernia pushing a car in snow), and other things I could never have done before, thanks be to God in any case.
No; you can only say that THIS one hasn't.
We had a young man in our church that was diagnosed with cancer in one of his leg bones, and the exact same thing happened when HE went in for surgery.
It was gone.
There were not as MANY prayers being said for him; but there was a lot!
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