Answered Prayers!!

It is late October 2013 and Danielle's back is hurting all the time.  Doug has asked if I contacted the doctor he found through researching the internet in St.Louis Missouri,  Dr. Lawerence Lenke?  I did contact them and his assistant told me to send information and Dr. Lenke would look over x-rays and existing doctor notes and then he would either accept or decline Danielle's case.  After acceptance there would be a 4 to 6 month wait to get an appointment with Dr. Lenke.  Dr. Lenke is ranked as one of the top 10 orthopedic doctors in the NATION.  So I'm thinking this isn't going to happen...... we really don't have 6 months to wait for surgery.  Danielle is planning to go off to college in the fall and is interested in joining a sorority.  So I basically gave up on being able to see Dr. Lenke and did not send Danielle's records to his office.  Doug was very disappointed that I gave up on Dr. Lenke so on October 21st, I called Dr. Burton's office with the University of Kansas (the last specialist we saw in April) and asked that they send all of Dr. Burton's notes and x-rays to Dr. Lenke's office.  I called Dr.Lenke's office on the 24th to see if they had received any information.  They had not.  On the 28th of October I called again and they had received her files and they would get back to me.  In the meantime I called Dr. Burton's office to see if I could set up an appointment to discuss surgery in January for Danielle.  I began to pray the rosary every night waiting for a miracle to happen.  Would we get in to see Dr. Lenke, or would Dr. Burton be our answer? Whatever the answer, I would accept it.  On Tuesday November 12 Naomi  from Dr. Lenke's office called.........."I have good news for you!  First of all Dr. Lenke has looked over Danielle's files and he has accepted her as a patient. Second......we have had a cancellation on Thursday at 3:30.  Can you be here in St. Louis on Thursday?" My response....."This Thursday the 14th?  YES!"  Naomi then proceeded to tell me that cancellations are unheard of with Dr. Lenke because people wait so long to see him.  So miracle #1 - Dr. Lenke accepted Danielle's case. Miracle #2 - we get to see him in 2 days.  Miracle #3 - out of all the cases that he had to chose from they chose to call us!  WOW!  I was totally overwhelmed.  Naomi did tell us to be sure to bring our x-rays from KU down.  I didn't think a thing about it at the time.