Believe In the Lord for Healing

Believe In the Lord for Healing

Believe in the Lord for Healing Over the years since about 2017 my Mom, who was previously independent and relatively healthy after struggling with being diagnosed with bipolar disease, has been in and out of the hospital. It started around that year when I was taking too many pain medications such as gabapentin for chronic pain eventually, having a stroke while on a ventilator. I watched the Lord heal her from not being able to completely move her right side to learn to walk again, talk and swallow at Molina’s guild care facility and after with home therapy. Thank you, Jesus. Over the years since then, she had various hospital admissions, generally, with pneumonia and COPD exacerbations, as she has also struggled with smoking. She was recently admitted again in April 2024 from influenza A. During so many of these admissions, she was on a ventilator once with the physician even proposing a tracheostomy. But I declined and believed in the Lord Jesus for healing as we are believers. We trust in his providence and his timing. Sure enough, every single time the Lord has taken my mom off of a ventilator, including this most recent admission, she struggled substantially with mobility now and has since she had a stroke around 2000 and 17. So she is now as of

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No Pain in Keratoconus Procedure

No Pain in Keratoconus Procedure

In December 2022, I was diagnosed with keratoconus. Unlike many stories, I woke up one morning with irritation and extreme blurred vision in my left eye. A few days later, an ophthalmologist diagnosed me with the condition in both eyes, with my left eye being so severe that I would need a full graft corneal transplant to regain even partial vision in that eye, which I have yet to have. I was also told that I would need crosslinking on my right eye to strengthen it and stop the progression. This news terrified me, not only because I would be practically blind for a few days while healing but also because of the pain everyone told me I would experience. Doctors informed me that the healing process would be extremely painful and that I would be given a ton of painkillers. When the day of the procedure finally arrived, I cried out to God in frustration. I had already been going through so much, and I felt betrayed by Him. I asked Him why He would let me go through something so painful, knowing I had an extremely low pain tolerance. Long story short, I had crosslinking done in January, and despite what the doctors were saying and what everyone was telling me about their experience, I experienced no pain

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