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\u201cSing, Dari! Loud as you can!\u201d Normally my four-year-old daughter loved to sing. Now she just stared, uncomprehending, at the nurse. I squeezed her hand for comfort. The nurse wanted her to sing so she would take deep breaths of anesthesia. I understood that, but how could I explain it to Dari?<\/p>\n

The doctor had allowed me to be in the operating room until she was asleep, but I didn\u2019t feel like I was being all that much help. There was so much for Dari to take in: the mask over her nose and mouth, the doctors and nurses in scrubs, the machines, the bright lights, the tables.<\/p>\n

Even I must have looked strange to her. My hair was tucked up under a sterile cap and only my eyes were visible above my mask. \u201cIt\u2019s okay, Dari. Just sing whatever song you like. The doctor\u2019s going to give you the laughing gas to put you to sleep. Remember you picked out the flavor you wanted?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cCupcake!\u201d said Dari. She tried to smile, but her eyes darted around the room again. Those eyes were so full of fear. I\u2019d tried to prepare Dari for everything that would happen in surgery. We talked about how the doctors would make an incision to repair an umbilical hernia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll make a little cut and sew it right up,\u201d I\u2019d said. \u201cCut me open?\u201d Dari had said, horrified. \u201cSew me?\u201d \u201cIt won\u2019t hurt at all!\u201d I promised. \u201cYou\u2019ll be home the same day. And back to school a few days later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dari looked doubtfully at her belly button where the doctor was going to operate. \u201cIt\u2019ll look fine when she\u2019s finished,\u201d I said. We even googled pictures of belly buttons after surgery. When we arrived at the hospital, the nurses had predicted Dari\u2019s own would be \u201cgorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The doctor had told me the surgery was routine, but nothing was routine when you were four years old. \u201cI\u2019m here, Dari,\u201d I said, squeezing her hand tighter. \u201cLet\u2019s sing together.\u201d We got through a few bars of \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.\u201d Then her eyes closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s under!\u201d the nurse bellowed. I was led back into the hallway. Now I was the one who was worried. Not about the surgery. I trusted the doctor. I just didn\u2019t want Dari to be scared. Be with her, Lord, <\/em>I prayed. Soothe her fear<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The surgery was fast\u2014not much over an hour. \u201cShe did great,\u201d the surgeon said when she met me in the waiting room. \u201cBut the repair turned out to be a little more complicated than we thought. The recovery will take a little longer. She\u2019ll miss a few weeks of school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, no, <\/em>I thought. I\u2019d promised Dari she\u2019d be up and around soon. Worse yet, the doctor said her belly button wouldn\u2019t look right until it healed. Maybe not until after a second surgery. It seemed like everything I\u2019d promised Dari was falling through. What kind of mother was I?<\/p>\n

I followed a nurse to the recovery room where Dari was waking up. I kissed her forehead. \u201cYour doctor said you did great,\u201d I told her. \u201cI know,\u201d she said, still a little groggy. \u201cI watched myself.\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

She pointed at her feet. \u201cI was sitting right there at the end of the bed. But in the other room.\u201d The operating room. Was she describing a dream? \u201cI saw the nurse pull open my pajamas and watched them work on my tummy. It didn\u2019t hurt. I wasn\u2019t scared either. My guardian angel was with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean the lady who asked you to sing?\u201d \u201cNo, Mom,\u201d she said, as if frustrated I didn\u2019t get it. \u201cMy guardian angel!\u201d \u201cOh. What did she look like?\u201d Dari held up her hands to show something the size of a doll. Maybe she was dreaming of one of her dolls?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did you know she was an angel?\u201d I asked. \u201cBecause of her wings,\u201d Dari said. \u201cAnd because she kept hugging me and hugging me.\u201d Our discussion was interrupted by the nurse arriving with a Popsicle. But I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about that dream\u2014or that angel.<\/p>\n

I kept thinking about her after Dari got home. Funny that Dari talked about seeing an angel just when I needed to know she was watched over. The first few days were hard. Dari\u2019s tummy was sore and she quickly got bored stuck in bed.<\/p>\n

So to entertain her one day I asked about the angel again. \u201cShe was this size,\u201d Dari said, making the same shape with her hands. \u201cShe wore a long pink gown with tennis shoes\u2026\u201d She looked around her room\u2014\u201cthat color.\u201d She pointed to a lavender pillow.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer hair was long. Like salt and pepper. With some strands of pink in it.\u201d The more details Dari gave the more excited I got. \u201cTell me about her again,\u201d I said. \u201cSo you don\u2019t forget her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dari sat up in bed and put her hands on her hips. \u201cMom, I could never forget my angel.\u201d Of course she couldn\u2019t. How many times did Dari have to tell me her angel was real before I believed that God had answered my prayer? He\u2019d sent an angel to comfort my daughter\u2014an angel she would love and remember all her life.<\/p>\n

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