“Now I Feel God’s Unchanging Love”

Nothing made Yaxuan happier than coloring.  Then one day, she threw her crayons down and started crying uncontrollably.    

“Her lips turned purple, and her skin got cold like ice cubes,” Yaxuan’s mother recounts.  

Her father shares, “She cried until she couldn’t cry anymore, and her body turned green.”

Yaxuan’s brother further explains, “It was like there was an invisible iron plate pressing on her heart so she couldn’t breathe.”

Tests showed that Yaxuan had tricuspid valve depression, a rare and complex heart condition. 

“I never expected anything like this to happen to her,” weeps Mr. Gao.

Shortly after leaving the hospital that first time, she was back in ICU with organ failure, sepsis, and a heart rate of over 200 beats per minute, all caused by her heart disease.  

“The doctor said she may only live to be three or four-years-old,” reports Mr. Gao.  “I was so worried.”

Yaxuan needed surgery, yet the Gaos are poor and couldn’t afford it.  

“Friends told us we should send Yaxuan to a welfare home or put her in a small box and leave her on the side of the road,” Mrs Gao says.  “But I’d never give up on her.  If I could, I’d give her my heart.”

Yaxuan continued to get worse.  The couple sold their only means of transportation to pay for treatments, while Yaxuan’s brother chipped-in, too. 

He remembers, “I heard my mother telling a friend that they still didn’t have enough for surgery, so I took out all my money to give to her.  I didn’t want my sister to die.”

Mrs. Gao comments, “Yaxuan was so thin that they could barely find her blood vessels for injections and infusions.  I didn’t know what to do because without money, the hospital wouldn’t do surgery, and my daughter would die.” 

Then another mother at the hospital told Mrs. Gao about Operation Blessing, and you helped make surgery possible for Yaxuan.

“Now she can run and jump, and she’s having more fun with her artwork than ever. It’s like God gave me a new daughter,” exclaims Mrs. Bai. 

“We play together and are happy every day,” adds Yaxuan’s brother.

Mr. Bai declares, “I believe it was a miracle.  Operation Blessing reminded me of the God I knew as a child but had forgotten.  Now, I feel his unchanging love.  God did this through you.”

“I didn't know much about God before, but after all this, I understand more.  I’m very grateful to Jesus and to the loving partners at Operation Blessing,” concludes Mrs Bai.  “Now, Yaxuan’s future is bright.”

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