Sid: Wait a second, over 105 degrees temperature, they thought they just left you and you want to get up and dance with your wife in the hospital. Now, come on now, your wife must have thought you..We Jewish people have a Hebrew word: mashuga! Crazy!
Dave: Yes, I was definitely mashuga right there. I didn’t…but I heard him say it’s time to stand and it’s time to celebrate what I have said over you. So she finally agreed. I said, look if the nurse comes in and gets mad I’ll take it, so please do it. So she moved the bar and I got out of bed. I had this IV pole beside me I affectionately called her Matilda and so my wife and I and Matilda stood there in the middle of the room and we started to stand.
Sid: Let me get this straight Matilda is your IV.
Dave: My IV pole.
Sid: That is what I thought. Okay, go ahead.
Dave: Waltzing with Matilda. So there we were dancing in the middle of the room declaring this affliction will not come back a second time. I will not die but I will live and I will declare what the Lord has done. And with that we just felt we had done what he called us to do and I climbed back in bed. And peace came.
Sid: It is important to you to be obedient, isn’t it?
Dave: Oh yeah, even when it doesn’t make sense. There are some things that do not make sense. There are some things in the Bible that do not make sense. Go take your son up on the hill. The only son I gave you and sacrifice him. That does not make sense. But, there are things that the Lord will tell us to do.
Sid: Okay, you two are at a high now, I mean a real high. You’ve just seen the Lord, you’ve just recovered from your temperature of over 105 degrees, where you almost died. Your dancing with your wife and Matilda and three days later you come off the mountain because you have a ruptured appendix.
Dave: Yes, a ruptured appendix, happened in the middle of the night. And it happened at a time immediately following an extensive chemotherapy treatment and I was inoperable. My blood levels were so low that my blood wouldn’t clot and they could not operate on me and at that point they prepared me for the end. They said this is it. You are like a cat that used up nine of its lives and you are not going to pull through this one. We have no idea what to do, they began to talk to hospice to meet with me to give me care until I would die to manage my pain. It was quite a grave situation at that point.
Sid: So what do you do?
Dave: Well, we prayed like we had been doing, we trusted the Lord and continued to declare what he had told us.
Sid: So, in effect if you didn’t have the surgery and your body wasn’t ready for surgery so they couldn’t give it to you, your prognosis was what?
Dave: Was that it would end because a burst appendix creates lethal poison into the body and its a matter of a few days until someone would pass with a burst appendix.