I love my mommy. I am an only child and a total mama's girl. Now, my mom has had Multiple Sclerosis since I was six years old. It's a progressive disease and, even though it isn't fatal, ultimately you're bedridden. She's been living in a nursing home since the middle of my sophomore year of high school.
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My mommy and I at my high school graduation
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On Friday night, I got a call that my mom had been taken to the emergency room with a bladder infection. No big deal, right? Right. Well for some reason they ended up keeping her in intensive care overnight. That concerned me, but I figured they just wanted to observe her overnight.
What they failed to tell me was that this infection had gotten into her bloodstream. This gave her a condition called "sepsis", which pretty much means that your blood is poisonous and your body tries to kill the germs by heating itself up. This results in a major fever and super fast heart rate. The call I got Saturday morning was much different than the first: they didn't know what was going to happen. My mom's life or death was dependent upon how well she responded to this antibiotic, and at that point, she wasn't responding.
Well, I was an absolute mess. A complete wreck. Other than praying and asking people to pray for her, I had no idea what to do. My uncle came up to Kent and got me so that I could go and be with her.
As soon as I got to the hospital, my breakdown continued. She was on oxygen, laying in bed looking so helpless with ice all over her. Her fever was 103 and she had not cooled down at all. As I held her hand and cried by her bedside, I prayed. It was like Jesus suddenly said to me,
"You know I can raise people from the dead, right? This is nothing. Ask and it shall be given to you."
So that's what I did. I put both hands on my mom and began to pray like I have never prayed before. I asked God to heal her in Jesus' name, and guess what?
He did.
Instantly, she went from red to her regular color, and an hour after being at 103, her fever was down to 99. This is not a coincidence whatsoever. God is so faithful; what He says in His word is so true. You just have to truly believe it.
The next day when I went to see her before coming back up to Kent, the oxygen tube was out and she was talking. Miracles totally happen!!
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After her near-death experience; still smiling! |
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."