God's Heavy Handed Messages

My cousin wrote to tell our family that her father was in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer that nearly killed him. But, and "God be Praised!", while they were shoving scopes up one end and down the other they found that he had a hiatal hernia that can increase his risk of cancer (she said it CAUSED cancer).

In her mind, he was given this horrific bleeding ulcer so that the doctors WOULD FIND A HERNIA. Good grief - why not just give him bad heartburn? Why not a note that says, "Go check for a hernia." Why do they thank god for a heavy handed message like a nearly fatal bleeding ulcer?

Good grief. ::head shaking::