My dad's recovery Morton G

Morton Garfield Kimmel III (my dad) holding my sister

So thankful for an everyday miracle thanks to medical technology -- dad is almost out of the woods. With internal bleeding and kidney failure, our docs felt he would not survive surgery that he needed -- we were just watching him decline and hoping his body would start to repair the damage -- which didn't happen. 

On Wednesday am, he was in rapid decline. They took a calculated risk and did a procedure that that was the lesser of the evil invasive options --they injected him with "hard on the kidneys" dye and ran a catheter to his abdomen. They identified the damaged artery and wrapped it in a feathery mesh infused with a clotting agent. Within hours his kidney function and bloodwork were coming back. Overnight I watched him basically come back to life. 

This morning he was lucid, talking, eating, drinking, and asking if he would be able to go to my niece's wedding. He is very weak, and dependent on supportive drugs, but very much in recovery.

I know the medical reasons for the procedure's success but it does seem like a miracle. Thanks all for your thoughts and prayers.