I figured out why this is in the Pit. It’s a God Pitting!
You see, as the Congresswoman noted, God heard her prayers (and her husband’s and their supporters’). i.e., “But most of all, we are grateful to God for hearing those prayers”.
Clearly the OP is asking why God chose to hear these prayers and not of the the six-year-old who was raped tortured and murdered last week, or those of the latest batch of Syrian non-combatants to be executed, let alone those of the millions of devout Jews and so many others who were murdered during the Holocaust.
That God, I tell you. He’s just impossible to figure.
As already noted, the reason “why we haven’t heard about this” is because the parents chose not to announce it for a couple of weeks. It’s also been reported by Fox News around the same time as the story linked to in the OP.
I suspect the reason that CNN apparently hasn’t picked up on it yet is because it’s an atheist liberal outlet that wants to deny the power of prayer.
By the way, Potter syndrome/sequence covers a whole range of abnormalities, which in addition to partial or complete lack of kidneys includes various levels of pulmonary hypoplasia (insufficient development), facial abnormalities and clubbed feet. Whether the experimental treatment used here will allow for long-term survival is still up in the air.
I don’t want to speak for Jackmannii, but I’m pretty sure he is 100% serious. Anyone who knows anything knows that CNN is nothing but an evil left wing propaganda machine. The only place to get fair & balanced reporting is Fox News. Cite: Fox was the only media outlet to cover this story. Coincidence? I think not.
Yeah, I think the focus is on the wrong organ here. The problem isn’t her lack of kidneys, exactly - it’s that her lack of kidneys meant a lack of fetal pee, and that’s mostly what amniotic fluid is. Lungs need that fluid to develop, and the chest wall muscles and diaphragm need that fluid to “practice” breathing to get strong enough to breathe air.
So without that fluid (due to no kidneys) now what? The answer, although experimental, is to repeatedly inject saline into the amniotic sac and hope that it provides the same lung developing benefits as fetal pee would.
It’s way cool, and while I think her thanks are a little misplaced (um…God screwed up this time, it was doctors and nurses that saved your baby, dear.) it’s certainly a common enough misplacement of gratitude that it just flies under the radar these days.
But, yeah, I also agree that “survival” is a relative and time dependent term. It’s been less than 3 weeks, lots can still go wrong. And there are many things that can go wrong, horrifically wrong, with the growth and development of a premature infant. Of course, I wish them all the best of luck, but they still have a very long, expensive and hard row to hoe, and they will never entirely be over the fear that something could go wrong related to their little miracle’s rapid entry into the world.
I am pro-birth defects. Without birth defects, where would we get our heroes like Wolverine, Beast, and Cyclops? Our planet would have been destroyed by the Brood or the Skrulls were it not for birth defects! Do you want the Earth destroyed? Answer me that, you anti-defectors!!!
"How lucky they are that they can afford hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of healthcare." Even with insurance, most Americans would be bankrupted by this kind of miracle.
Medical question, but since the forum is kind of wonky anyway: is it possible to artificially “grow” a pair of kidneys ala this article on stem cells or do they have to wait for an infant with healthy kidneys to die?
