Classmates' prayers help 7-year-old recover from rare heart disease

Published: 2006-03-23

HONOLULU (CNS) -- In many ways, Meaghan Ababa is a typical 7-year-old girl. She loves playing with her Bratz dolls, going to the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant and attending catechism classes on Sunday. But after an astonishing total recovery from a rare and sudden illness that nearly killed her, some are calling her a "miracle girl." The apparent cause of what many feel was a miracle? Her classmates' prayers. Meaghan went from being hospitalized in Honolulu with what seemed like the flu to being whisked to a Los Angeles hospital after doctors determined she had a rare, life-threatening heart ailment and would need a transplant. As she lay near death, her catechism classmates prayed for her. The girl's condition completely turned around, leaving even her doctor feeling her recovery was miraculous.

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