Gladys Mpumwire is a fresh graduate from Makerere University, Kampala. She specialized in Biomedical sciences and is currently doing additional research in her field of expertise at Mulago National Referral Hospital, commonly known as Mulago Hospital. While at work in the labour ward, they received a patient whose condition was so severe. She unfortunately lost her child, but was able to make the most important decision of her life the proceeding day.
While doing my research at Mulago National Referral Hospital in ward 5C, we admitted an expectant woman who had began bleeding right from her home in Luweero District.
Narrating her condition, we got to find out that she had moved to about 3 hospitals around Kampala before getting to Mulago.
By the time she got here, the placenta had detached from the uterus. She couldn’t feel her legs because of poor circulation of blood that caused loss of sensation. An operation was performed just a few hours after and thankfully, she survived but the baby was not able to make it.
The next day when I went to check on her, she was deeply grieved by the loss. I could not put myself in her shoes to say that I understood what she was going through nevertheless, one thing was for sure, God did know her situation.
I knew that at that moment she questioned life at all extremes. Why does God allow pain and suffering?True, suffering transcends all class, race, ethnicity, culture and privilege.
As she healed from the wounds, I simply told her about God’s love that kept her from death. God restores things; all of history points to a God who makes sad things right. In our darkest moment, when we are crushed, Jesus is as close as our own breath.
I told her that this was furthermore an opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and savior. When I went back home, God showed me a possibility of death. I asked God to give her chance to receive Him. The next day, I went to speak to her about making the important decision.
Immediately she agreed and received Jesus. I Praise King Jesus. Interestingly, she was discharged the next day since she was now well.
It doesn’t matter what field you operation in profession wise, God has given us to one another as agents of love and grace and safety. We ought to look at the spiritual realm for answers to things that don’t seem to make sense in the physical.
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