31,565,000 HEARTBEATS

My mind has been racing over the events of a year ago.

I had just gotten to work and heard the ambulance tones go off.

CPR in progress.

Helicopter flight.

36 very tense hours of waiting.

 I was in the front of that helicopter.

Since that day.......December 6, 2016......
He's had about 31,565,000 heartbeats.
I am so very thankful for each one of them.

I am so mindful of a loving Father in Heaven that allowed him to stay with me.
I felt the presence of angels ministering to his body.
I have never prayed harder in my life for anything.
And every single prayer I had was answered.

I don't know why.
I know we are not more worthy than others who haven't had their prayers answered in such a manner, but I am so very thankful.

It made Christmas so sweet last year.

He was in the hospital for 13 days.
8 of those was before they would do bypass surgery.
They wanted his heart and brain to "cool off".

Then he had his open heart on the 14th and went home 3 days later.

His recovery is nothing less than miraculous.

And I still count the heartbeats.