My wife and I were anxiously waiting in the reception room of the hospital while our daughter was doing her uttermost to give birth to her firstborn. She was having a very hard time, and so was the doctor, who finally consulted a colleague in the hallway and we overheard him saying, “I do not want to loose this one”. They decided to deliver our first grandson Mark by way of Cesarean-section. The post delivery examination showed a defect on the baby's heart, which the doctor decided to rectify in the future.

Forty-one years later that looming undertaking took place, when Mark, who went to the hospital with a broken arm, was told by the physicians there that he needed an operation to replace a defect heart-valve with a mechanical valve and that postponement was out of the question. Henceforth he was transported to a hospital in Vancouver, where the operation was performed. The mechanical valve works like clockwork. I know, because when I put my ear on Mark's chest I heard a ticking like a grandfather clock. Mark told his little son that he is a cyborg now (part human, part machine) but his mother thinks different.

That is what she said - “So, the son with the kind and generous heart, actually had a failing heart. Anyone who knows Mark knows that his heart is not part mechanical and is not arteries from other parts of his chest,but is and always will be – pure gold.” We as a family are extremely thankful. White Mark's mother added “please pray for a complete recovery.”