I Should Be Dead

Greetings in the name of Jesus,

The blockage in my carotid artery was OVER 99%! I should not have survived. I should have been dead from the onset of symptoms in Oct. Instead I flew to Mass. the flight should have caused a stroke due to changes in air pressure, but the Lord kept me. The surgeon told me at my check-up that he almost could not keep the artery open and that is why the surgery took longer than it should have, but he kept it open by the grace of God. At my re-check the tech that did the ultra-sound on my neck said that they usually don't see people with a blockage greater than 80% (because greater than 80% people die), but they saw me at over 99%! The following day when I went to see my primary to be released he said "I'm surprised you survived." He is the director of doctors at Harvard Medical Center and he was surprised!

We left Belize and had no insurance, but the Lord provided. We did not have to pay one penny for anything except my prescriptions, which cost $1.00 each. I had, literally, the world's best vascular surgeon do this surgery. That is provision. Provision that only the Lord Himself could have provided.

Satan would have had me dead and Andrew hopeless if he could, but our God is the very God who created the universes and breathed life into us. He is our Sustainer and Provider and King. He IS.

I have a blockage in my right chest. It will be taken care of at a later date.

I return in Sept. for the carotid follow-up. Though my liver was inflamed it has completely cleared up. I do have a calcium deposit (pre-cancer) in my right breast. There have already been two mammogram and I will have a follow-up mammogram in Sept. I was severely anemic, but that is almost a thing of the past.

Today we are back in Belize and have begun to pick-up where we left off. Lord willing we will see people come to the Lord and bring glory to His precious name.