Ginni's Scrappy World

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I LOVE Miracles!

Many of you don't know that I'm a walking miracle. Yep. A real live honest to goodness miracle happened to me!
It all started in September 1999. Hurricane Floyd was a Category 4 hurricane barreling towards us. I was working with another lady and 7 commercial real estate agents in a satellite office of a large firm in the area. The main office told my co-worker and I that we would have to move all the computer equipment and other expensive items that were somewhat portable to a back office where they would be safer and away from the windows. She was a mom with a kid in day care so I sent her home when the day was supposed to be over and I finished the job. The last thing to move was the monitor on my desk. It was SUPER heavy and I could barely scoot it across the desk - much less move it to another ROOM! Well, I knew I should just leave it but decided to be Little Miss Good Employee (LMGE). I got the thing off the desk and into my chair and wheeled it back to the other room. But once I got it in there it started to look like it wasn't gonna stay on the chair. So again LMGE decided I had to secure the thing safely. I picked that thing up and felt something in my back.
It didn't hurt at the time and I didn't think much of it. But by the time I drove my tiny stick-shift car home I was pretty darned sore. Of COURSE I was! We'd just moved most of the office! Well, Floyd missed us by 40 miles and it was a GORGEOUS S Florida day. The next day it was back to work. But now we had to move all that stuff BACK! I got Steve to come move that heavy monitor for us! He was shocked that I'd been able to do what I had with it - It was even heavy for HIM! OMG!
Long story short, I ended up in the doctor's office a few days later. I had slipped the L5 S1 disks and they were herniated and protruding into my sciatic nerve. I spent the next 8 months in agony. Physical therapy 3 times a week, lots of drugs and most of my time in bed unable to even lift a magazine or a book to read. I couldn't sit for more than a couple of minutes much less stand or DO anything! It was HORRIBLE!
Workers comp was slow to respond but in May 2000 I had back surgery and man did it help! But I was still in bad shape. If I even lifted a gallon of milk wrong I'd be in bed for 3 days. I was like that for FOUR YEARS!!!
And then on November 13, 2004 I went to a church meeting. It was a week of special meetings and it was a Wednesday night. Nothing special about this one. I was just enjoying the music and being around all the people.
And then the speaker asked who had pain in their bodies. I raised my hand... "Put your hands on the place where it hurts" he said. I did. And then it happened!!! No one touched me. No one had moved out of place. But an electricity and a heat went through my body AND THE PAIN LEFT ME!!!!! Now you have to remember, I hadn't been pain-free for four years! I was absolutely hysterical with joy! When my husband realized what had happened we both started crying! And thanking Jesus for my miracle!
That was six years ago. Today I am still totally healed! I've traveled, lifted, ridden in cars for long drives, driven long periods of time, sat for hours on end, scrapped to my heart's content, lifted grandbabies, you name it I've done it! Totally pain free! What joy it is to celebrate one more time the day that God had mercy on me and set me free! And people say miracles don't happen today much less in the USA... I'm here to prove them wrong!!! And thank Jesus one more time.
Many blessings and much love!

2 comments:

Robin Gibson said...

Love your story Ginni! Thanks too, for leaving such a sweet comment on the Reminisce blog about my cards! They are SUCH cute lines:) I'm looking forward to coming back often to see what you've been up too! Cheers! Robin

Sherri said...

that's amazing~! God does work in mysterious ways, even now.