{"id":22893,"date":"2012-04-07T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=22893"},"modified":"2012-04-09T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:28:14","slug":"wyatts-talk-about-sons-health-problems-lords-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/04\/07\/wyatts-talk-about-sons-health-problems-lords-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday talk about God’s blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stuart Wyatt talks about his son, Noah's, health problems during the YMCA's Good Friday breakfast at Willow Bend Country Club. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good Friday, among Christians, is a time of suffering, but also a time of coming redemption. Those themes were also prevalent when Stuart Wyatt spoke of his son Noah\u2019s health problems over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Wyatt, who is a loan officer for First Bank of Berne and also a pastor for Good Shepherd Church of the Nazarene, spoke of the early birth of Noah on July 14, 2002, and how it wasn\u2019t long after his son\u2019s birth that he and his wife realized that their son had problems. First of all, Noah didn\u2019t cry after he was born. The lack of sound was explained by a hole in the baby\u2019s windpipe, while he also had a hole in his back as well.<\/p>\n

Shortly after his birth, Noah was on his way to Columbus Children\u2019s Hospital for emergency treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd my wife and I in a room, in the maternity ward, with no baby,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

Both Wyatts felt that Noah\u2019s birth was a miracle to them, since Stuart came from a big family and they had been married for some time without any children.<\/p>\n

So, even though Noah was facing considerable medical challenges, the Wyatts were happy that God had granted their wish for a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey thought we were in denial,\u201d Wyatt said of the doctors and nurses who were watching them rejoice over Noah\u2019s birth. \u201cIn the midst of this, with no son, no hope, that in the midst of that, we were praising the Lord for His goodness and for delivering to us this boy for which we had prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n

A shunt placed in Noah\u2019s brain relieved the pressure of fluid on his brain, but the problems had pinched off a nerve that controls the vocal chords.<\/p>\n

Wyatt described the problems and surgeries Noah underwent to correct his challenging conditions, but the one problem that wouldn\u2019t go away was the baby\u2019s inability to make sound because of vocal chord paralysis.<\/p>\n

Noah also couldn\u2019t breathe on his own, which was a much more serious challenge to his survival. A tracheostomy was finally performed to allow him to breathe better, but he was still on a ventilating machine when he came home from the hospital more than a month later.<\/p>\n

A trip to a specialist in February 2003 was to see how Noah\u2019s vocal chord paralysis was coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had prayed that the Lord would open up and allow his vocal chords to move, so this \u2018trach\u2019 could be gone \u2026 that we could hear our son\u2019s voice for the first time,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

While things didn\u2019t go exactly as planned during that doctor\u2019s visit, their son did take his first breath on his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started crying, my wife started crying, the nurse started crying, the doctor started crying, the people in the waiting room started crying,\u201d Wyatt said of the emotional moment.<\/p>\n

Noah\u2019s vocal chord recovery culminated in 2011 when the then-9-year-old boy underwent an operation that allowed his tracheostomy to be closed.<\/p>\n

But a final challenge remained when Noah had to have an operation to replace the shunt implanted in his brain eight years before.<\/p>\n

The bright-eyed 9-year-old came through that operation without a hitch and was present at the breakfast with his mother and two siblings.<\/p>\n

Wyatt concluded his talk by speaking of Good Friday and what it means to Christians. He spoke of how Jesus prayed that he would not have to be crucified and suffer, but how he also said \u201cThy will be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also talked about his belief that Jesus also prayed for him and \u201ceach and every one of us\u201d 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message of Good Friday is that the Lord had given Him his petition \u2026 His Heavenly Father\u2019s will had been done \u2026 salvation has come \u2026 Easter morning will arrive and we, too, can have life everlasting,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

A special community Good Friday service was also held later Friday at First United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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