Monica McFarlan was told she had two days to live. After fifteen years of battling heart failure and being rejected by every transplant center in the country, she was preparing for hospice care when God brought her a miracle.
The human body is easily the most complex system in the world. Even with all our technology, medical science hasn’t fully mastered it yet—doctors are still finding and learning new things every single day. But God knows every minute detail of how you function because He’s the one who designed and created you.
It’s only human to feel completely overwhelmed when an organ fails or a diagnosis like cancer hits. We feel our hope fading and we start treating a doctor’s report as the final word on our lives. We rush to say our goodbyes and try to scramble through a bucket list because we think the story is over.
But just think about it—if God built these incredibly complex systems from scratch, don’t you think He can bring a breakthrough to your specific problem? In this story, Monica is a living testimony to exactly that.
Monica McFarlan spent fifteen years fighting heart failure. By 37 she was on nine different meds just to keep her heart beating. It was a long road. She went through two heart pumps and even had to have emergency surgery on her brain.
By the time 2023 rolled around every single transplant center in the country had said no to her. Her body just had too many antibodies for a normal transplant to work.
Doctors told her family she may have had between two days and two weeks left. So Monica started doing the hardest thing a person can do. She started saying goodbye to her husband, mother and her boys. She was getting ready for hospice.
“Oh my gosh, it was just from the lowest point of my life, telling my boys goodbye and my husband and my mom, to the highest of highs,” she says.
But then Emory stepped in with something called the HALT procedure. It stands for Heart After Liver Transplant. It’s a 16-hour surgery where they put the liver in first.
The liver basically acts like a giant sponge. It soaks up all those antibodies so the new heart doesn’t get rejected immediately. Dr. Victor Pretorius called the whole process “beautiful” because that liver stays there acting like a shield for the heart forever.
The cool part is Monica’s old liver was actually healthy so they gave it to another patient who needed it.
“I had a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance!” Monica said later. She went from the absolute bottom to the highest high you can imagine. She feels like herself again. She gives all the credit to God and says her faith is stronger than it’s ever been.
“I had a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance! I am just so grateful. I thank God every day. My faith has grown so strong, and my trust in him, because without God, I wouldn’t be here right now.” Monica testified.
Monica’s story is a massive reminder that even when the best doctors in the world say it’s over, the One who designed your DNA has the final say.
If He can use a liver to shield a heart in a 16-hour miracle, He can surely handle whatever breakthrough you are waiting for today. As it says in
Jeremiah 32:17, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.”
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