I meant to post it before we left for Disney but couldn't get the picture to upload. I recieved the photo below in an e-mail. Im not the type to forward stuff on en masse and I always check stuff out that is sent to me on snopes.com... But in this case I actually know the woman who wrote it. Her name Katy and she is Sebastian's Child-Life Specialist. She used to work over at Hemby Childrens Hospital where Sebastian has had his surgeries but now she works out of the Blume Pediatric Oncology Clinic where we take Sebastian.
At first I scrolled down through the e-mail to the photo. My breath caught in my throat. Was I looking at what I thought I was looking at? I recognized the floor and the doors as those of the PICU at Hemby Childrens Hospital....These types of inspirational e-mails always make me tear up but I was shaking in my chair. Having stood right in that spot waiting for the PICU doors to open it the photo below is very faith affirming.
I think about the many times Ive asked our family and friends to pray for Sebastian (and more recently Savannah) believing that by storming the heavens with prayer God would deliver one of his many miracles. I dont consider myself to be great at praying. I shy away from even leading grace at meals. So my prayer has always been simple
Lord please heal Sebastian and send your angels to watch over him. This is what I have repeated in my heart and from my lips.
Here in this photo, I can see, captured, what we have felt
that God has indeed sent his angels. For Sebastian, for the little girl in the story, for the kids on these Wish Tripper threads and for countless others who have needed Him.
With Love,
Amber
Here is Katy's e-mail...picture below of the PICU Angel guarding the door:
So many of you have heard me tell the story, but I wanted to pass it along anyway to those who didn't hear it and for those who wanted it in email.
A couple of Wednesdays ago, I got an evening phone call from the pediatric ICU at Presbyterian Hospital, where I work as a child life specialist. Usually when they call at night, it means something bad has happened. This, however, was different. My coworker told me that the most amazing thing had just happened and she just had to call to tell me.
We had a patient who has really grown up in and out of the hospital. All the staff knows her and her family. She had been in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for about a month, and had been intubated - on life support. She was not doing well. The doctors had approached mom about taking her off life support the Saturday before. Mom was okay with it, and said that she'd been through so much and if was her time to go she wanted to honor that. So they had taken her off.
It was Wednesday and she was still alive. Amazing. The doctors approached mom about taking off her oxygen mask. Mom was supportive, and began praying over her daughter. The mother of another young patient who was in the bed next to her began praying with her.
The nurse practitioner went to the nurses station to chart that she had taken off the oxygen mask. While doing so, she looked up at the security monitor that videotapes the double doors leading into the PICU. It records anyone who may be waiting outside the doors to get in since it is a secure unit. She saw a man standing there, and it looked a little funny to her, so she decided to walk down the hall to open the double doors personally. When she opened them, no one was standing there.
She walked back down to the nurses station to finish charting, assuming he had walked away, but saw him still standing there on the monitor. So she opened the doors with a button near the nurses station and leaned over to see him walk in, but no one was standing there.
She pulled over another nurse and both stood staring at this man on the monitor and opening the doors to find no one there. The nurse practitioner leaned in closely to look at the man on the monitor and said, 'Oh my gosh. That's an angel. You can see his wings!'
They said that the sun starting shining so brightly and the whole PICU was strangely filled with light. They said he was a tall man and you could see wings behind him.
They pulled over all the staff of the PICU and the two praying mothers and everyone was staring at this man on the monitor and opening the doors to find no one there. Crying, everyone pulled out their camera phones to take pictures, but no one could get it to show up on their camera. The mother of the girl pulled out her camera phone and finally got a picture of the angel who was guarding the doors to the PICU. He turned out as a man of light. I have attached the picture from her phone.
The girl was later discharged from the hospital to go home.
A Miracle.
This story makes me so grateful for the way that God reveals himself to us, and the how Great He is really is. We have much to be thankful for this holiday.
Thanks for all the replys! We've decided the Jan dates are out...just too close. Still thinking that Feb 9-16 is probably our best option, as our kids would only miss 3 days of school. And since we are from the frozen north, we really want to go when it is still winter here to escape the bitter cold! 
that link! Brought tears...although my kids are quite convinced it is real!
I am new here and just wanted to join in on this conversation. We are going to be on our Make a Wish trip form January 18th to the 27. we will be staying at Give the Kids the World. Anyone else going to be there at the same time? We are traveling with 5 kids and a service dog. We are all getting so excited! The info on this board is wonderful and overwhelming at the same time.
