Mark Wagner
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Please read this and then look at the picture at the bottom. Don't look
at the picture first. It is INCREDIBLE!
A picture began circulating in November. It should be "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. And hey, pass it on. The world needs to see this
one!
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Please read this and then look at the picture at the bottom. Don't look
at the picture first. It is INCREDIBLE!
A picture began circulating in November. It should be "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. And hey, pass it on. The world needs to see this
one!
