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Tempe David Kim 선교사님 간증 감사 편지입니다.
목자님. 저의 이식수술 1 년 간증 편지입니다. 기도 늘 감사하고 안암 게시판에 영문 그대로 올리셔도 괜찮습니다. Dear Sh. Moses Kim & Anam coworkers. "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart for the Lord" Psalm 27:14 Thank and praise Jesus, our Lord and our Savior. Most of all, I do apologize that I didn't write often about my post liver transplant recovery progress. I cordially ask your pardon and understanding. It's my fault simply thinking that no news is good news ,not thinking of your concerns how I'm doing. It's been already one full year since I got a liver transplant on October 29, 2015. As I enter one year anniversary, I only can think of God's grace and his mercy upon this unworthy sinner. After daily morning prayer, Ruth said, "My heart is pounding when I remember this morning of a year ago and hospital coordinator called you to come in for transplant surgery What a day! It was a day of new birth in my life. We also remembered the day of April 3, 2014 when my oncology Dr. told my wife and me that I have a deadly cancer in my liver and my surgeon cleared that I am not a candidate of both surgery and transplant. Dr. continued, without transplant I would most certainly die within a few years. "Die?" I murmured. "How could that be?" But God miraculously opened a new way by reducing cancer size through treatment and enabled me to get on the waiting list at Mid West UNOS(United Network for Organ Sharing). Ruth & I were elated with the news about getting on the list. It was on September 8, 2014 after five months of aggressive chemo & radiation treatment. But I obviously knew very little about transplantation and no one around me had an organ transplant. Most of all, we didn't know how many people were already on the list and how long we have to wait for transplant. In fact, I had had eight procedures to remove possible tumors while waiting. I was getting weaker and losing hope. But God gave me the word, "Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart for the Lord." God held me to be patient, courageous and strong enough to see the incredible work of God in my life. It was exactly this day a year ago I got a new liver by the grace of God through mysterious way. Though it was not my turn as a recipient on the waiting list, God prepared every situation for me to get a gift of life, liver transplant much earlier than we expected. While most people wait minimum a year and half, mine was only 13 months and 21 days. Many may think what's a big difference if you wait five or more months for transplant. Yes, it is. One single day may make a big difference as a matter of life and death. Lots of patients on the list are dying while waiting and I, myself, had a serious weakness after 8th procedure through which three big spots of lesion removed in the liver by interventional radiologist on October 19, 2015. On October 23, 2015 Friday night, my wife and my son, David Jr. urged me to go on living donor surgery as he offered his liver from the beginning. At that time, I still refused saying, I do not want to risk your (David Jr.) life for saving me. I was ready to die and go to heaven where no more suffering exists. God, however, saved my life six days later through his designed plan and mighty power. If I waited 4- 6 months more, I might not be able to make it. My wife, Ruth, is still wondering if it's a dream or real. As soon as I got a transplant, we were so happy and thought, it's over and my life should be good to go. Not really, Dr. said. He prescribed total of 15 medications including steroids, anti-immune suppressive, anticoagulant, antivirus, antibiotics, anti inflammation and many other strong medicines and explained me all the varied aspects of post operative challenges I would face. When Dr. explained about post transplant life with various kind of complications including high risk of infection, then I realized that I have to live as an immune compromised patient in my life time and my journey is not over. You never know what's gonna happen in the future and I may confront worse problem than I think of. God, however, has kept me so far so good except one stent placement done on last June regarding liver artery stenosis due to narrowing anastomoses (connection liver artery area between donor and mine). Dr. says, I'm a record in history staying in hospital only 4 nights, took very minimum pain medication (Total of 0.6mg of dilaudid & 3 tabs of norco through entire post operation) and no emergency room visit since surgery. He also rarely see patient like me who had speediest recovery and goes back to work who is over 60 years old. Since I returned to work at the end of April, my recent health condition is excellent both physical and spiritual. Ruth & I do daily prayer meeting, preparing bible studies and messages with full spirit of enthusiasm. On October 16th Sunday, I delivered message, Jacob's blessing (Genesis 49:1-28), for more than an hour with live spirit without feeling fatigue. Physically I also do workout 4-5 times a week at Life Time fitness center. About 2 weeks ago, My regular check up CT of chest and abdominal and all kind of blood test is perfectly normal. I also did biometric screening and my body fat is 26..2% (25% or under is normal and last year my body fat was 30.5%) and BMI (Body Mass Index) is 24.3 (25 or under is normal and last year my BMI was 27). What a significant change! I just want to let you know how healthy and energetic I am and I am doing excellent in daily life. My main issue is now that I'm still taking 6 kind of medications and 3 of them are very strong. I must take those meds for a life time (Two of them are anti immune and one of them is Anti Hep B virus). The side effect of these meds are powerful enough to crash my spirit and suck my energy out of my body that sometimes I feel like a flat tire with no air. God, however, does not allow this power of darkness to put me down in my any aspects of life and no one notices if I am a brand new post op major organ transplant patient. Whenever I share my story, everyone exclaims, "Whoa! Amazing!!". But I know, it's God, his mighty power. I have been safe and secure under his protection and I feel confident that God will redeem me in my life time as he has done in the past. I know that God is there to lead and help me when my path seems dark. He is my light, stronghold and salvation!! As I celebrate my one year anniversary of transplant operation, my wife, Ruth, and I truly appreciate to you and all the coworker in Anam for financial, medical, spiritual and earnest prayer support for my recovery and we will absolutely remain thankful to You and all coworkers in the world forever and ever! May you find the grace and peace of God in your daily life and God bless Anam UBF campus ministry!! in the morning October 29, 2016 Your great debtor Ruth & David Kim from Tempe UBF. Sent from my iPhone |
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이경청
2016-11-09 11:29
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Thank God; how he has done, and Praising God. Thank you for your wonderful sharing^^ |
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DKS
2016-12-23 06:33
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I 이경청 목자님 감사합니다!! | |
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