{"id":323,"date":"2020-01-29T07:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:28:07","slug":"jess-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Jess’ Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My son, Jesse Jerome\nBaxter, was born six weeks premature, so he had a struggle from day\none. The doctor said he had been unsure whether Jess would make it\nthrough that first night because his lungs were not fully developed. \nHowever, through prayer and the diligence of the doctors and nurses,\nJess did make it through those first few days. He looked so cute\nwith his little \u201cparty hat\u201d which was really a dixie cup that had\nbeen taped over the IV in his head to keep him from dislodging it. I\nwas driving back and forth from home everyday to breastfeed, because\nthe doctor felt Jess was still too small to be taken home. Our goal\nwas 5 pounds \u2013 up a half pound from his birth weight of 4 pounds 8\nounces \u2013 the doctor had said then I could take him home. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day when I came\nin to breastfeed, the nurse told me that the doctor had asked me to\ncome by his office. When I did, the doctor informed me that there\nwas a problem \u2013 the bones in Jess\u2019 skull were grown together at\nthe top of his head. He explained how the bones should have a little\nspace between them that would allow Jess\u2019 head to expand as he\ngrew. I remember he said that you could even feel the ridge on the\ntop of his head where the bones were fused together. I don\u2019t\nremember much else of what he said, I was too upset after talk of\nbrain damage, retardation and other possible effects of the bones\nhaving grown together. After leaving the doctor\u2019s office in a daze\nI went back to see Jess again and felt the top of his head. Yes, it\nwas just as the doctor had said \u2013 I could feel the ridge along the\ntop of his head. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distraught and\ncrying, I called my mother and tried to explain the situation to her\nthrough my tears. My mother was a strong believer in the God of the\nBible, a real prayer warrior that had prayed me through some\nchallenging times already. She cried too at the news, but promised\nto ask the churches in our small Texas town to pray for Jess. Still\ncrying, I found a place alone and prayed to the God that I had asked\nto save me at Vacation Bible School when I was nine years old. There\nhad been a lot of rebellion in my life since I was nine years old,\nboth against my parents and against God. In my teen years I thought\nGod didn\u2019t want me to have any fun, so I pretty much turned my back\non Him to party through my high school and college years. This\nsituation with my new baby boy was a real wakeup call though, so I\nasked God to forgive me for my rebellion against Him and promised\nthat if He would take care of Jess that I would straighten up and fly\nright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jess was transported\nfrom the small hospital in Kerrville, Texas to St. Jude Children\u2019s\nHospital in San Antonio that same day while I rode in the ambulance\nwith him. Mom arrived soon after we did and we all settled into the\nsmall hospital room for the night. The female doctor in charge of\nJess said that they would start tests on Jess the next morning. \nHospitals being what they are, no one slept much that night but\nnurses arrived early to take Jess off for the battery of tests they\nhad scheduled for the day. I remember at one point, Mom changing\nJess\u2019 little preemie diaper which came all the way up to his\narmpits. For some unknown reason, Jess picked just that time of open\nair on his bottom to have an explosive bowel movement. Luckily, Mom\nwas wearing a yellow and green multicolored top so no one else ever\nknew she had to clean baby poo off of it! Jess was so small that\nwhen his head was in the crook of my elbow his little feet fit neatly\ninto the palm of my hand. He was just about the size of a football. \nMom and I cried, prayed and visited while Jess was in for the tests,\nknowing that people back home were praying too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the doctor came\nby the room late that evening, she told us that they had completed\nthe tests that they had scheduled for Jess, and they hadn\u2019t been\nable to find anything wrong! \u201cIn fact\u201d, she said, \u201cif you feel\nthe top of his head, you can feel the space between the bones.\u201d I\npicked Jess up, cradling him in my arm while I felt the top of his\nhead. Just as she said, I could feel the gap between the bones in\nthe top of his little head. I\u2019m not sure exactly when it happened,\nbut sometime between when I felt the top of his head at the hospital\nat Kerrville and when I felt it again in San Antonio, God worked a\nmiracle! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jess was discharged\nfrom the hospital with a clean bill of health and I took him home. I\npraise the LORD that He healed my baby boy who is now a grown man\nwith a wife and children of his own. Never discount the power of\nprayer! Thank you to all those who prayed for Jess \u2013 you know who\nyou are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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