SID: Hello, Sid Roth your investigative reporter here with Dr. David Remedios who is a vascular surgeon. I asked him for the toughest surgery of his life and he knew exactly what it was, it was a dear friend. And he worked in the operating room for seven hours. And it looked like there was no way that he could survive. I mean you told me that his organs were just being destroyed.
DAVID: Correct.
SID: And so you went home. And what did you find out?
DAVID: Well I found out that the same time I was in the operating room that a prayer meeting was going on in my house and different people saw me and then a miracle happened.
SID: Wait. While you were doing surgery people saw you in your own house?
DAVID: Yes they did; about three different people, yes.
SID: Well that’s not without precedent. If you remember Peter, there was a prayer meeting and they thought it was his spirit when he was knocking at the door. But what happened next?
DAVID: He went home within a week.
SID: But that’s, medically speaking…
DAVID: That doesn’t make any sense to me. It doesn’t make any sense; medically speaking
SID: But you know Dr. Remedios has literally prayed for people that have gotten new organs. I want you to see a home video of one of his patients: Dee and Gary Sapp. Let’s go to that – cut now.
Gary: We’re Gary and Dee Sapp of Alexandria Louisiana. We’ve come today to tell you about Dee’s creative miracle and give you an update.
Dee: November of 1995, on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, I found myself in a lot of pain with a very distended abdomen and I asked my husband to please get me some help.
Gary: Being on the weekend the only thing I knew to do was go to the emergency room and so en route the Holy Spirit instructed me to call our good friend Dr. David Remedios. And after talking to him he instructed me he would meet us in the emergency room. And after arriving at the emergency room Dee’s stomach was so swollen, while I was parking my car they took her to delivery for a baby.
Dee: Dr. Remedios did examine me. He found that I needed something for the pain. He did give me that. I was very happy. I wouldn’t know anything else for that18 hours until the surgery was done.
Gary: A few minutes late David came in with the X-rays and showed me that everywhere on the X-rays that was black was blockage. He couldn’t do anything that evening but the next morning he would do a more extensive CAT scan, which he did and found out at that point that emergency surgery had to be done or Dee would possibly die. And so at that point David took both my hands and prayed a very simple prayer saying to the Lord “I want you to be with me in the operating room” “and have angels attend to me while I’m there.”
Dee: Without knowing about that prayer, I did encounter angels in the operating room. They appeared as small children but they were actually inside my stomach area. I could see them, I could hear them laughing, I could see them running around and jumping up and down. There was a lot of love, a lot of warmth, and they left me with the message to be at peace, for all was well.
Gary: David removed a golf ball sized tumor from Dee’s colon but before that he took out her appendix at her gall bladder. Not knowing what to do, the Lord instructed him to go through her colon inch by inch where he found the golf ball sized tumor. After removing it he found out it was malignant and it also spread into her lymph nodes. Gangrene had set into her stomach and David third stage cancer was the report from the tumor. So at that point God just really gave David some very super instructions because as he took out her colon, part of her colon, 36 inches, he was to attach a colostomy and an eliostomy bag to her for the rest of her life. But the Holy Spirit intervened and said for him not to do it, to stretch her colon together, clamp it off, sew it up, that it would work.
Dee: And it did work. Day two, all my bowel function worked. Day four, I went home from the hospital. I didn’t even need pain medication. Day six, I was actually up doing laundry.
Gary: What’s so amazing is the creative part of this miracle. That in 1996, one year later, we went back to the hospital to do a colonoscopy. David was checking for lesions, tumors, anything that could be there. And so after checking all of that, he found absolutely not anything there but came down to the waiting room where I was to give me a good report and to give me a great report. The great report was that the 36 inches of colon that he had cut out of her body was back in her body and colons do not regenerate themselves. Of course I asked him how did he know this, and he said “I used the entire scope on her and the scope is over 70 inches long.” So God did perform a creative miracle for us.
SID: Now if you have to have surgery, that’s the right kind of surgery. David, what I want to know is, you had told me that God was speaking to you while you were doing this surgery and telling you to do something fairly unorthodox, that literally, to your knowledge, had never been done before. What happened?
DAVID: Well frankly, what I normally would do is take out the colon, which was unprepared obviously, uncleansed, and just bring in a colostomy and eliostomy; take out the gall bladder which was also gangrenous concomitantly. So at that point I felt in my heart the voice of the Lord speaking to me “Just put the colon back together, close the skin, I have done the work.” And so this is contrary to what I would normally do and I want to say this with the utmost of seriousness, this is something I would not normally violate, the principles of what I know to be true and correct. But I know the voice of my Lord. And so after deliberation and prompting two or three times, I just did what I felt in my heart the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. So I did it.
SID: But there was a risk on your part doing something unorthodox that had never been done before David.
DAVID: Oh absolutely.
SID: How did you have the chutzpa, that’s a Hebrew word, how did you have the chutzpa to do that?
DAVID: It’s all about relationship. When you live a life of relationship with God, you hear His voice. And this is not to be taken flippantly or to be taken casually, this is very serious.
SID: But what about the fact that half of her colon, you cut out and now it’s there? I don’t understand this.
DAVID: I don’t either. That’s why it’s… There’s a God.
SID: Is there any way medically speaking it could regenerate.
DAVID: No, absolutely not.
SID: Listen, we’ll be right back. I believe when David prays for you, some creative miracles will happen in your life. Don’t go away.