miracle or medical explanation?

[biteme]

I have worked with and talked to a lot of religious people in my life. Some of the stories that I have heard, they are either lying, deluded, or there is something out there bigger than us.

Today my friend who is an old man comes into work and tells me that his 30 year old nephew had 2 heart attacks late last week and that he had 80% blockage in 2 arteries, I think he said. He said that he prayed before his nephew went into surgery. When they opened his nephew up, they couldn't find any blockages and no sign that he had had a heart attack, such as scar tissue. The old man was crying as he was telling me this. I don't know what to make of it. Anyone here a medical expert. I just don't understand why God needs a particular individual to pray for someone before he would act for that person. Many people die young every day. My cousin died at 38 from Esophagal cancer and all the praying in the world didn't save him. He left behind 4 children and a wife and he didn't have life insurance. That's why it's hard for me to believe in God, just one of many reasons.

 

[2Thick]

It was a natural occurrence that is explained by freak chance.

The best healer of the body is the human body.

Medically speaking, doing nothing is often better than treatment (in a myriad of acute and chronic episodes).

 

[danielson]

maybe the clot/atheroma moved somewhere else/ruptured, or they looked in the wrong place, or they misdiagnosed or he never heard a heart attack and it was unstable angina?




there are many things i or any man will ever understand in this world.....all i know for certain is that

 

[biteme]

It was a natural occurance that is explained by freak chance.

The best healer of the body is the human body.

Medically speaking, doing nothing is often better than treatment (in a myriad of acute and chronic episodes).

But how can blockages just dissappear? It takes a lot of time to build up 80% blockage.
I have read that also. That many if not most medical procedures are unnecessary.

 

[2Thick]

But how can blockages just dissappear? It takes a lot of time to build up 80% blockage.

They sometimes move (like danielson mentioned) and they also break apart in certain instances.

It might be the case that the heart attack broke it apart...

 

[biteme]

Thanks. I figured there had to be a medical explanation. I was thinking the blockages were narrowed from plaque. I didn't know that plaque could break apart or move. I thought it was stuck to the arterial walls and caused them to narrow, restricting the blood flow.