posted January 06, 2008 10:14 AM         

I fell the equivalent of 2 stories through a roof once and escaped with cuts and bruises, but luckily a ladder hanging under the roof broke my fall (felt like the Hand of God) and lowered me gently down onto the concrete floor of the lower level.

posted January 06, 2008 12:46 PM         

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“If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one,” said Dr. Philip S. Barie, the chief of the division of critical care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, where Mr. Moreno, 37, is being treated.

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I am a believer in miracles and this is an amazing story.

What the doctors said here about Mr. Moreno is what the doctors at Children's Hospital said about my grand daughter, Madeline who was born with a cancerous tumor the size of a grapefruit. Neuro Blastoma is what they said it was. She underwent three surgeries and chemo treatments after birth. By the time she was 8 months old she was completely cancer free. She is a healthy, beautiful 7 year old today and remains cancer free. Yet at birth she was not expected to survive at all. She was called by the doctors and nurses their " miracle baby."

She was baptized one night late because she began internally bleeding from tumor. The doctors told us that if the bleeding stopped by morning they would be begin chemo to get rid of the rest of the tumor that they could not remove in surgery due to it being attached to her liver. She was not expected to live to morning.

My son and his wife sat by her side and told us that they saw the miracle happen. They said suddenly that the swelling in Maddie's abdomen started to go down and color returned to her face and body.