Thursday, August 24, 2006
I love you not for what you are
Love is the fairest flower
If I know what love is,
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lost. [8/24/2006 11:06:00 AM]
This really touches my heart.....................Njoy the beautiful
"picture of the year" or "decade!"
Many of us may have seen the first photo last year. Now see the others to
appreciate the wonders of a new life in a mother's womb !!
A picture began circulating. "The Picture of the
Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be.
In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you
probably will never see it. The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn
baby named Samuel.
Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure.
Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he
performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes
a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr Bruner completed the surgery
on little Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand
through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger.
In a Time Europe article highlighting new pregnancy imagery that show the
formation of major organs and other significant evidence of the formation
of human life but a few days after conception, Dr Bruner was reported as
saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his
life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.
The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity.
The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope". The text explaining
the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel
Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr
Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life. "
Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture.
She said, "The photo reminds us my pregnancy isn't about disability or an
illness, it's about a little person". Samuel was born in perfect health,
the operation 100 per cent successful. Now see the actual picture, and it is awesome ... incredible. 
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lost. [8/24/2006 10:42:00 AM]