She will bring forth a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. Matt.1:21, NKJV. TUBERCULOSIS WAS killing 23-year-old Eleanor Munro. Physicians had tried everything and give up hope.Her husband had TB when he returned from overseas after world War ll, but before it was detected and having no immunity against the disease, she caught it. It lodged in an almost impossible place to treat-the lower lobe of her lung.
The only treatment was for the TB cavity to be forced shut so nature could have a chance to heal it by letting the sides grow together. If it had been in the upper lobe, ribs could have been removed to collapse the lobe, but her body needed the lower ribs for support. They considered removing the lung, but Eleanor was too sick to withstand surgery.
When Dr. MacDougall told Eleanor that there was nothing more they could do, she extracted a promise that if she were alive on Christmas Eve, she be allowed to go home. He promised, but only because he was sure she would be dead by them. But she wasn’t so with warning to not hold her child and to wear a surgical mask, she was taken home by ambulance. She came back to the hospital the following night, and her health continued to slip until she could no longer feed herself. But she refused to die.
Toward the end of February, she was down to 80 pounds when new complications set in. she became nauseated and began to vomit, even without food in her stomach. After examining her, a specialist asked if she could be pregnant. Impossible! How could her dying body have conceived? How could it support another life? But the test was positive. Aborting the child wasn’t an option; she was so weak the procedure could have killed her. Then an amazing thing happened: she began to get better. By late March, her temperature was coming down.
A chest x-ray showed that the growth of the TB cavity had stopped; her diaphragm was pushing up against lower lobe of her diseased lung to make room for the growing child. The child was saving the mother! What science couldn’t do, God did through the miracle of a child! The greatest miracle of all is ours through another Baby, God’s son Thank you, Jesus.
Based on the article "Christmas Miracle” by Dr. Joseph A. MacDougall, As told to Douglas How, reprinted in Woman of spirit, December 1999.
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