Awesome stories! I'm glad God is helping you so much.Rubicon wrote: ↑November 28th, 2022, 2:52 pm Healing blessings are a big part of my family's testimony (family of six). We have had such a good track record, that it scares me a little, because God does not answer every blessing immediately or in the way we expect. Here are two examples:
1) When our oldest was an infant but could sit up, my wife had him on the counter. He put his hand into the hot toaster and started screaming. His hand looked frightening (at least 2nd degree burns --- really raw and ugly). Before rushing him to the ER, I gave him a blessing, and we noticed in the car (we kept turning around to look at his hand) that his burns were gone. Not improved, but completely gone --- as in just as it was before he burned his hand in the toaster.
2) My wife has had a severe clotting and bleeding disorder for over ten years that has resulted in long hospitalizations. She has to be on high doses of warfarin (blood thinner), or she clots massively in her internal organs, but this also leads to "leakage" in her veins and bleeding. In December 2020 (we all know what that was like), she took a rapid turn for the worse. She had been bleeding in her bowels, but that was nothing new, but she rapidly went downhill to the point that she was unconscious when I got her to the ER. They wouldn't let me be there to speak for her, and they released her barely conscious, saying that her hemoglobin levels didn't justify transfusions. They wouldn't talk to me and pushed her out the door --- they were solely interested in and concerned with Coronavirus. If I could, I would have pressed them on blood pressure and blood volume (she can have decent iron levels in the test, but no blood). In fact, in a recent hospitalization where we nearly lost her, her blood pressure was 54/45 (they gave her norepinephrine to artificially boost her blood pressure, and the ER doctors didn't understand how her pulse rate could be normal with her pressure so low). I took her home scared (she was extremely weak and barely conscious), and gave her a blessing where I told her to rise up, take up her bed, and walk --- and I told her that she would live to hold her grandchildren in her arms (our kids are mission and start of college age). She had her best long stretch after that blessing, being stronger than she had been in years. We talked about how blessings aren't or shouldn't be a health care plan, but when push comes to shove, we are grateful to have access to the priesthood in times like this.
The ER doctor most recently told me that we must be living right, because of a number of things (like her blood pressure being so low without her heart working like crazy to try to pump what little blood she had). We were looking at a week-long wait for the ICU at a major hospital in Phoenix, but an ICU bed opened up for her immediately. He didn't understand how she had remained alive without brain or organ damage after hours of treatment in the ER at such a low blood pressure.
☹They wouldn't let me be there to speak for her, and they released her barely conscious, saying that her hemoglobin levels didn't justify transfusions. They wouldn't talk to me and pushed her out the door --- they were solely interested in and concerned with Coronavirus
I know at least one young woman who probably would have died if her uncle (a doctor in another state) hadn't strongly told her to return to the ER after they'd said nothing was wrong with her. Turned out to be a huge tumor that could have killed her. The fear-mongering over cov has probably panicked a lot of hospital workers into letting needy people die (refusing to treat them or refusing to let family members in who can tell them what's wrong - or both).
I am so glad you have shown us strong witnesses that God can do healings when doctors refuse (I think it was Fred who also had that experience some years ago with his daughter).