In March of 2007, I had the stent placed in my left pulmonary vein. I was supposed to get better after the stent was placed but, I didn’t. I got worse. In April of 2007, I had to stop working and was put on oxygen 24/7 because I couldn’t keep my oxygen levels up. In July of 2007, I had one of several hospital stays, and during this particular stay, the worst possible thing imaginable happened. My lungs started filling up with massive amounts of blood that my body would involuntarily make me cough up. The blood was taking up all the room I had for oxygen so when this would happen I couldn’t breathe. It was unimaginable suffering.

The doctors rushed in and did a bronchoscopy (went into my lungs with a camera) and found that the bleeding was coming from both lungs. This was caused by severe blood pressure in the lungs (severe pulmonary hypertension). The only cure was a double lung transplant and I wasn’t a candidate for that because of the effects of the lung disease. They told me that there was one procedure that could be done but was more experimental than anything. It was an imbollization to my right lung. That might stop the blood vessels from bursting and bleeding. The only reason they could do it to the right lung was because it wasn’t working anyway. They would shoot this gel type stuff in that would harden and close off the blood vessels. The doctor had told me that the bleeding definitely wouldn’t stop without this procedure, and he didn’t really have a lot of hope in the procedure either. He said that these massive bleeds were the little bleed waiting on the big one; the big one would kill me. He said I wouldn’t suffer and that it would happen fast. He was expecting it at any time, so he told me to get my will together and call my family in. We did as he instructed.

While we were debating whether or not to have the procedure done, I had what we thought was the big bleed. I was rushed to another hospital to have the procedure done. When the procedure was over and I was sent back to my hospital, as soon as we got off the elevator to my floor, I started bleeding again. It was the biggest hardest one yet. The procedure didn’t take.

Well, we had called in our family (God’s family), so everyone was there and they stayed the night with me praying and singing. It was supposed to be my last night on this earth and my family made it one of my best nights. They were encouraging and loving me. My hospital room floor was covered that night with God’s people; they slept on the floor. Jesus heard their prayers. I didn’t die that night!

I bled like that for four months with no notice or signs when it was going to happen. Sometimes I would go a week and I wouldn’t bleed and then all of a sudden I’d have two or three bleeds in a day. My family (God’s people) took shifts sitting with me when my husband was at work because we never knew when the big one was coming, and I needed a lot of help when I would have a bleed. It was a very scary time for me, but Jesus gave me peace through it all.

In November of 2007, I was in the hospital again and one night I heard a soft voice (not audible but in my head) say, “You will not bleed again.” I thought, “God was that you or was that me with wishful thinking?” I was afraid to tell anyone because I didn’t want to look silly if I bled again. Well, a few weeks went by and I hadn’t bled again, so, I thought, I would test it out and tell one person what I had heard. After I told that person, I got the courage to start telling others. It is now September of 2009 and I have not had another one of those bleeds since the night that I heard I wouldn’t bleed again. Jesus healed my pulmonary hypertension that the doctors (and there were many) said couldn’t be fixed without the transplant. I am still on oxygen and I haven’t been completely healed yet, but I do believe that it’s coming. My doctor’s office recognizes me as their miracle. Jesus is a miracle worker! If you need a healing ask him he is able!

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