Proof The Bible Is True

Nurse Sarah Pemberton has heard it all. She works in the surgical recovery room at Mountain View Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. People coming out of anesthesia “are pretty chatty and say all sorts of things,” she says. Personal problems, embarrassing revelations. “I always say, ‘Why go to the movies when we can hear people’s stories here?’”

 

But one thing she’d never heard was her name—first and last—uttered by a patient she’d never met before.

 

It was a late summer afternoon when Denise Fajardo of Silver City, New Mexico, was wheeled into Pemberton’s recovery room. Fajardo had had a melanoma removed from her nose. She was awake but groggy.

 

Before Pemberton could say a word, Fajardo looked up and said, “Your name is Sarah.”

 

Pemberton glanced at her name tag, which had her first name, and nodded.

 

“Last name Pemberton?” Fajardo went on.

 

Pemberton did a double take. Her last name was not on her name tag.

 

“I have your check,” Fajardo said.

 

An even bigger double take. “My what?” said Pemberton.

 

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