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Thursday 12 April 2012

Surgery before birth.

Hats off doctors..!!

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
developed
hand through the incision 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
Arm
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.