Unborn baby grabs surgeon

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   Not sure how old this is, but received this email today, amazing!!

Please read before viewing picture - it's worth it! A picture began

circulating in November. It should be 'The Picture of the Year,' or

perhaps, 'Picture of the Decade.'

It won't be. In fact,unless you obtained

a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have

seen it.The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel

Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph

Bruner.The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if

removed from his mother's womb.

Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an

obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical

procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville

, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the

womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and

makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr.Bruner completed the

surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully

developedhand through the incision n and firmly grasped the surgeon's

finger. Dr.Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped,

it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant

during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph

captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the

picture, 'Hand of Hope.' The text explaining the picture begins, 'The tiny

hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's

uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor

for the gift of life.'

Little Samuel's mother said they 'wept for days'

when they saw the picture. She said, 'The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't

about disability or an illness, it's about a little person.'Samuel was

born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. Now see the

actual picture, and it is awesome...incredible...and hey,pass it on. The

world needs to see this one! Don't tell me our God isn't an awesome

God!!!!!

edit because i suck at links lol

Edited by kriss