Today marks my “second birthday,” which was named that by a server at a restaurant we were at with friends, Patrick and Su after I found out my final results from my doctor in 2012. My hardest year of life was over. The Dark Night of my soul had ended. So, today I celebrate again what Jesus has done and share it with you as I plan to do every year on this day!
I am sharing my Facebook post here that I put up in 2013. Maybe you didn’t see it, but here it is. For the Warrior’s Tale book, I will be sharing the full story over the coming months.
Here it is:
Happy Second Birthday to Me!
It was actually a year I had been sick. Diagnosis was an autoimmune disorder known as “MS.” I had had a stroke event lesions on my brain, white matter disease, some paralysis and weakness on my left side and loss of half my peripheral vision in my left eye with damage to my optic nerve along with some memory loss.
August 20, 2012, the neurologist at Georgetown University Hospital who had said that I would need to get ready for a life that would grind to a halt and prepare people around me for my quick deterioration and start planning my exit strategies and for my replacements in work and ministry and who had offered me a permanent handicap parking permit, came back to say that he “would not comment” on the pictures and tests and write ups we had before. That the current set of blood tests, MRI’s and as well as my physical tests left him no doubt that I had only one small lesion on my brain left, some eye damage which could not be linked to any issue in the brain any longer, no white matter disease, and no paralysis as well as perfect blood with no indicators of any “MS” or anything else for that matter.
When we asked him to comment on the papers that were written up about my degeneration and damage in my brain as well as the first set of pictures, he said he would no longer comment even on what he stated before.
When Lori asked, “what are you saying to us” through tears. He responded, “your brain looks good, how’s your preaching?”
When we asked if I had been healed, all he said was, “we don’t see this kind of thing. I am not sure what we are looking at, but I am releasing you. You do not have anything wrong with you. But if you even have a migraine headache again, you don’t self-diagnose, you go to the emergency room and call my office from there. People don’t just get better like this. You need to be careful! I have to release you now. There is nothing wrong with you and as for that one last lesion, I’ll give you that one.” And he smiled and laughed with us and congratulated us as we stated overtly that Jesus had healed me! He never denied it. He just asked that if I wanted to to come back by and see him sometime. He would love to see how I progress.
I’ve kept it off Facebook because after so many MRI’s, so many blood tests, so much time in and out of doctor’s offices and hospitals, I just didn’t want to talk about it. It was still too real. However, after dealing with all the trauma and now surviving this whole thing, I am beginning to share the story of how I went from a person with deteriorating back, lesions in the brain, white matter disease, a body that was fighting itself with MS, memory loss, a stroke event, loss of vision, and paralysis now to someone completely restored (minus the one eye)! I just want to praise Jesus on my second birthday!
I will serve HIM forever! HE gave me my whole life back!
Thank you IHOP Kansas City, Ken Fish http://ift.tt/1HYWNDa, Robby Dawkins http://ift.tt/1hutseU and Pastor Alice from Waldorf Vineyard as well as The Tapestry Vineyard, Steve Salsman and Dan MacLeod http://ift.tt/1HYWKY0 for literally being a part of my healing process. You all prayed for me to be healed and I was! Go Jesus! Now I’m beginning to tell the world my story.
Just because a doctor says it doesn’t mean GOD can’t change it! The Devil enjoyed my pain but now he will regret it! I’m proof Jesus lives! Grrrrrrrrrr!
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