Emergency Room Series: Testing God?

OMG,Why did i read this!!!!

The ER has been usually very calm. The cases we've been having are not so spectacular, which is a good thing. Guess people are taking good care of themselves and not waiting for things to get seriously out of hand. I pray that God will continue to keep you and yours safe. 

The story I'm about to share really breaks my heart but I'm going to tell you as it is. First of all, why do we TEST God? Why do we mix religion with common sense? Why put your health in danger because of some kind of 'social embarrassment' or religious instruction? I am not here to preach but at the end of this post, you'll be the judge.

One of the things I've learnt about being is a nurse is that some people can have absolutely no regard for their own decisions, they look up to other people who they claim are more mature or spirit led to make important life decisions for them. Nobody, absolutely nobody is more connected to your spirit as you are and nobody can make decisions better than you. 

A woman in her early forties was rushed to the ER by her husband. She was bleeding and heavily pregnant. She was said to have attempted delivering at home with the aid of some female family members and an auxiliary nurse (quack nurse).

 Mind you these people looked financially okay, so its not like they can't afford to have the woman deliver at the hospital but for reasons best known to them, they chose to let her deliver at home. She looked horribly exhausted and could barely breath on her own. Her heart was beating fast to compensate for the blood she had lost at home. Her BP had dropped so low she had to be immediately placed on saline drips. Her blood was taken to check the blood type she would be transfused with. She was placed on oxygen.

The theatre was set. We couldn't attempt vaginal delivery anymore. To make matters even worse, when the doctor was asking the husband about the pregnancy, we found out it was her first pregnancy and she was expecting twins! To make matter more worse, it was as a result of artificial insemination, a very expensive medical procedure to get pregnant and for her to have twins as a result is not common. 

The doctors requested an emergency CS as she was already in physical and respiratory distress, mind you it is not even safe to operate on someone who is already in respiratory distress. More family members came in shortly after and they were all panicking. When asked why the husband allowed her to deliver at home despite knowing the dangers, he said it was their family pastor's instructions and that the pastor said the 'enemy will attack her and the babies if she decides to deliver at the hospital or have a CS'. What nonsense! 

She could have bled to death at home.


She had been in labour for too long. Her age doesn't even allow it! Not to talk of the fact that she was carrying twins. The husband started begging for a miracle. He even said he would call their pastors to come and pray, but the head of d ER said if any pastor comes in, he/she would be arrested! 

It was unbelievable! 

After waiting for so many years and spending so much to get pregnant? Is that how easy is it to be brainwashed? Because I don't think anyone in their right senses will do that, it takes a higher force for anyone to agree to such a thing...

The babies were already in distress because of the mother's condition and I couldn't even pick any heart beat with the digital fetoscope. She was wheeled into the theatre but I didn't follow because I knew what was up, we could only hope for a miracle. The relatives could be heard praying loudly outside the ER. I felt angry and sad. Poor woman. Pathetic relatives.

After about 4 hours, she was wheeled out. Sadly, she lost the babies and she had entered a coma so she had to be taken to the ICU. The babies were said to be stillbirths. It was discovered in the theatre that one of the babies was even breeched( the head was up while the leg was coming out of the vagina). Due to the mother's age, blood loss, opened cervix, drained amniotic fluids, prolonged labour, breech presentation and twin gestations, the babies stood no chance. It was too complicated for any of them to survive. 

The husband was informed, he couldn't hold back his tears. He said he was following what the prophecy said. He kept saying 'how will I tell her, she already had names for them'. I felt sorry for them. The babies were wrapped but the husband refused to accept them. It was another family member that took the box towards their car. I wonder what would happen to the 'man of God'. 

 I have a feeling they will be told 'it is the will of God'. Oh, how blind have some become! No sane person could have done this to themselves. We talked about it in the ER. Some of the ER staffs believe they were hypnotised. Where do the couple begin their lives from again??. 

I hope justice is served to the 'pastor', or what kind of prophesy was that? We live in a country where we see religious leaders not as mere servants of God but as gods themselves. So much time, money and power is being invested to them.

 Sighs! 

What makes you think you can't hear from your own Creator? Your health should be something you alone has control over. 

As a nurse, I have seen a lot of health problems and even deaths that could have been easily averted if only the patients paid attention TO themselves and made decisions FOR themselves. RECEIVE CLARITY.

*OMG !!...what a pity!!!!