False Positive

"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." Psalm 139:14

I know.  I've referred to this verse a lot lately but it's because God has constantly been reminding me that I am knitted together and made by His hands. He made me specifically for His plan and His purpose and I am special and unique inside and out.

I recently failed a stress test, and after waiting only one week, I was admitted to the hospital to have an angiogram to take a better peek at my heart and arteries.  My heart and arteries were the two things I least expected to ever have to worry about concerning my health, but here I was.  Lying on a hospital bed, with an I.V. in one arm, a port in the other arm, a blood pressure cuff on the arm with the port, and purple markings on my feet for other accessible arteries in case of an emergency.  As I waited for my turn for the procedure, (Yes, I was just one patient of many on the assembly line for angiograms that morning) my husband and I prayed that the Lord would allow my Doctor to access the artery through my wrist and that he would be able to fix the problem during this procedure to prevent me from having to go through an additional procedure or surgery.

Just before my procedure, my doctor came in to explain how the procedure would go and then the anesthesiologist came in to explain his part of the procedure, and then I was wheeled back into Surgery.  I was prepped and given just enough sedation for comfort.  I don't believe I was given enough sedation for comfort.... but before I knew it, I was back in my recovery room.  A few minutes later, my doctor came in and let me know the results.  He began to tell me that the reason for the pain in my arm was because my artery was not straight.  It had a loop, like a racetrack before it straightened itself out.  In order to do the angiogram, he first had to correct my artery, but once he had access to my heart and arteries, he said, 'your heart and arteries are beautiful. No blockages, clots or abnormalities. In fact, you have less than 1% probability for ever developing vascular problems in the next ten years.'  I asked him how I could fail a stress test when I have no vascular problems?  He said, 'Sometimes there are false positives...(and then he looked over at my husband and smiled and then continued to say) and women's bodies can be complicated.'  

After my Cardiologist left the room, my husband and I praised God for specifically answering all of our prayers.  Then I asked my husband if he thought God allowed me to go through all of this, just so that the doctor could remove the loop in the artery of my arm.  We believe He did.  We both believe that God will get our attention concerning one thing, so that He can repair a totally different problem altogether.

I told a friend about the loop in my artery and she said, 'Google said that Tracy is part of the 11% of people that have a tangled artery.'  LOL 

And that is why the Lord brought me back to Psalm 139:14

Most of the time it doesn't matter what a test will show...

    It only matters what God KNOWS...

        And that He has created us exactly they way He wants us to be...

            But that's just me!