My Miracle Daughter

Kim, home from the hospital, with her friend.

She's Home!  After nearly dying earlier this week due to extreme dehydration and Diabetic Keto-Acidosis (DKA), she is home and doing much better.  While still a little weak, her health has improved.  She was released yesterday from the hospital.  Today, she attended church and a graduation.  Since the doctors told me she should be dead, I count this as a HUGE miracle!

I am so grateful that the hand of God was on my daughter.  She has had a difficult year, trying to figure out her life and make her way.  She loves God and wants to serve Him, but feels like she's in a situation where she just isn't sure what the next step is. She has made some mistakes too, with a lack of focus and a need to reach out to others that didn't reach back.  Now, with nearly dying, she is praising God, knowing He saved her for a purpose, and hoping that He'll reveal that purpose to her.

Just thinking about the week, the heart-wrenching fears and prayers, tears come to my eyes.  I can't remember ever feeling so helpless as when that helicopter took off with my daughter inside it in critical condition.  To know that, five days later, she is walking around and going to church, is a miracle to me.

Type 1 diabetes is a horrible disease that can be very difficult to manage.  Every cold or simple hormones from being a woman can drastically raise blood sugars.  The heat or sun caused my daughter to nearly die.  Two doctors told me she should have died, and one said that it was one of the worst cases of DKA he has ever seen.  Yet she is alive and smiling.

I pray that God uses this as a powerful testimony to His power.  I pray that my daughter's life will glorify Him in abundance.

If my daughter would have died, I know she would have gone to heaven.  However, I am selfish.  I am glad she is here with us.  I love her so much.  I am glad that God is not done with her yet.  I am glad that He has a plan and a purpose for her that hasn't been realized yet.  Thank You Jesus!!