Miracle

Yesterday i took Melinda to have eye surgery. She has had such a powerful astigmatism in both eyes, the doctor told us it would help her a lot, but not fully free her from glasses. their machine can correct up to 7, she has a 7.5 measurement of ellipses or something like that. She was just a bit nervous as we waited for them to take her back, and about that time a woman came bustling into the room and beelined toward us. It was Lyndy and Lenae's mom who was working there as a surgical assistant. (Lyndy and Lenae are twins, good friends of Melinda from her high school performance group Encore.) She saw Melinda's name on the list for the day and had to come and see if it was "her" Melinda. She chatted away with her and then when it was time to go in, she walked in with her. She stayed by her side the whole 1 1/2 hours of the surgery, even holding her hand when it got scary and rough. I call that a tender mercy of the Lord. It relieved me tremendously to have her a part of the whole deal. Later in the day, after a we had been home and Melinda had napped, there was a checkup she needed to go back for at 2:00, and Thomas took her, planning to head to Ephraim directly from the doctor if it all looked right. Melinda called me, all excited, and reported that she had 20/40 vision in her eyes, a total and complete surprise to the docs. They said that it usually doesn't happen for their patients until the next day, to get that good of a result, and they really didn't think it would at all for her, that she would have to have a "redo" in a couple of months. Cool, huh.