tima@hls.com (06/22/91)
I just read last Thursday that ex-Giant baseball player Dave Dravecky was going to have his pitching arm amputated because of continuing medical problems. Wasn't that the arm that was 'miraculousy' healed of cancer last year ? Maybe that was just another one of those temporary 'miracles'. Tim Ames
burt@sequent.com (06/23/91)
In article <Jun.22.00.26.45.1991.6338@athos.rutgers.edu> tima@hls.com writes: >I just read last Thursday that ex-Giant baseball player Dave Dravecky >was going to have his pitching arm amputated because of continuing medical >problems. > >Wasn't that the arm that was 'miraculousy' healed of cancer last year ? > >Maybe that was just another one of those temporary 'miracles'. > > >Tim Ames This is *precisely* the type of thing that preoccupies much of my spiritual meanderings. NOT the "miracle healing"; BUT RATHER, that Dravecky was given a glimpse of what a comeback would be like. There was a *reason* for that glimpse, and many things occurred during that brief period (both to Dravecky, and to everyone who interacted with him). How about the people he affected? There is a story worth hearing in there somewhere... I would be willing to bet that Dravecky will be grateful for that glimpse, if he isn't already. And I sure would like to read his autobiography. All I can say is that when I think and behave in the way that God wants me to,................. Good Things Happen! =8*) burt@sequent.sequent.com
mangoe@tove.cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) (07/01/91)
Tim Ames writes: >I just read last Thursday that ex-Giant baseball player Dave Dravecky was >going to have his pitching arm amputated because of continuing medical >problems. >Wasn't that the arm that was 'miraculousy' healed of cancer last year ? No. First, of all, the problem wasn't cancer per se, but another kind of growth which is locally very destructive but not malignant. The growth was removed, and we had the comeback, but as is unfortunately the usual case, it reappeared. If there was ever a miracle, it was a Sports Illustrated miracle, not a Vatican miracle. Dravecky was certainly grateful for the comeback, but that's not the same thing. -- C. Wingate + "How blest are they who have not seen, + and yet whose faith has constant been, mangoe@cs.umd.edu + for they eternal life shall win. tove!mangoe + Alleluia!"