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This is a story of a mother who truly followed her intuition, even when she had no physical evidence that her newborn was ill, and was even told that her baby was fine.  Because this mother was insistent, she was able to save her child’s life.  And the mother shares how the child’s Guardian Angel was very evident in their daughter’s life for the 5 years the doctors wanted her watched.

Allie’s Angel

When Mother’s Day rolls around, Lynn of West Bloomfield, Michigan, enjoys every minute of it, for her path to maternity had been more anxious than most.  She remembers all too clearly the irrational fear she began to exhibit almost at the start of her second pregnancy; she felt certain that something was very wrong.  “My doctor tried to reassure me that the baby and I were both fine, but there was nothing he could say or do that would put my mind at rest,” she says.  There seemed to be no reason for her concern, so there was no logical way to combat it.  Eventually, Lynn went through a normal delivery and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, and she hoped her strange fears had gone.  But when little Alexandra was just ten day old, Lynn suddenly “knew” what her unease was all about. “As I was feeding her one night, I looked at our reflection in the mirror. There seemed to be a covering over her, like a gauzy white sheet.  I took that vision as a warning—that although she appeared perfectly healthy, she needed medical attention immediately.”  

She and her husband took her to the hospital, but after a bunch of tests, they found nothing wrong, and the parents took her home.  Several days later, she took her baby to another hospital’s ER, with the same tests still not showing anything wrong.  But this time Lynn refused to take her baby home, and so they sent another doctor to examine the baby.  He looked at Lynn, “I need you to tell me what is wrong with your daughter,” he said gently. 

Lynn looked at the baby, and the baby looked right back.  Their eyes locked for a moment, and suddenly she knew.  “You need to focus on her abdomen,” she said. “That’s where the problem is.”  “ Very well,”  the doctor nodded.   “We’ll do a CT scan tomorrow morning. “

“No!  You have to do it now!” Lynn was adamant.” “It’s very late in the day—“ “Now!”  Tears pricked her eyes. “I don’t think she’ll make it through the night.”

Oddly, the doctor complied.  Just a short time later, the results showed that Allie was filled with fluid and had peritonitis.  With an hour, she was in surgery, where the physicians removed a portion of her colon.  They never did find the source of the peritonitis. “The doctor came out to talk to us, and he gently warned us that she might not live through the night,”  Lynn says.   Yet, somehow I knew she would be fine.”  Following a very lengthy hospital stay and recuperation period, baby Allie was discharged.

“Watch over her closely for the first five years,” the doctors advised.  Because they hadn’t found the cause of her illness, they could not be sure it  wouldn’t return. .  However, to this day it remains a mystery.

As Alexandra developed well, and as she approached her second birthday, she started to talk.  But  her first words were not dada or mama.  It was angel.  As her verbal skills developed, she told her family that her angels’ name was Bummer, that he was a very tall man, at least eight feet, and seemed a playful person.  At first Lynn thought it was an imaginary friend, but then one day she was looking for a book for her son.  “I turned the house upside down, but since Allie was only three, I didn’t include her in the search.”  While Lynn was still looking, the toddler approached, carrying the book. 

“Here, Mommy,” she said, holding it out “Bummer said you wanted this.  He told me where it was.”

On several other occasions, Lynn would be in an adjacent room and hear Allie, happily chattering away at Bummer.  “One day I heard a deep male voice talking back to her,” Lynn says.  “I ran into the next room, but she was alone.  Lynn’s husband had also heard their daughter talking to someone, and a male voice responding.”

Time passed, and after Allie’s 5^th Birthday, Bummer only reappeared a few more times to their daughter during the next year.  However he had reassured Allie that he would always be close.  Lynn remembered that the doctors had wanted Allie to be watched very closely for her first 5 years. So then Lynn realizes that Allie was watched by her Guardian Angel ‘Bummer’ as well. 

The full longer version of the story can be found in the book Guardian Angels, True stories of Answered Prayers. By Joan Wester Anderson. LoyolaPress, Chicago.  Watch for other stories from this book and other sources.

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