The basketball-size tumor was finally gone, and the first signs after Emanuel Zayas’s surgery were deceptively encouraging. Days after the surgery, Emanuel’s lungs began to fail. Soon, the people praying for the boy brought to U.S. doctors by missionaries came to a sobering truth: There would be no miracle. Doctors feared that the massive tumor would snap Emanuel’s neck if it didn’t choke or starve him first. Marx and the other doctors in Emanuel’s case donated their time, and several benefactors raised money to help pay for the procedure.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 15:42 UTC