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This is a thank you/testimony.

From the time I was born I was raised in a Christian home. My father and mother were also raised in Christian homes as well, So I was very influenced by Christian ways and acts.

Whenever I was about 11 years old I began to rebel. I still looked like I loved the Lord, but the inside was a completely different thing entirely. I wasn't spending quite time with The Lord. I wasn't worshiping. I cussed. And I did some bad things online. No one knew it. But I did. It got worse and worse until I turned 13. I couldn't take the pressure anymore. I wasn't who my friends thought I was. I had multiple personallities. I had changed myself to where I couldn't change back on my own. So I cried out to God in a desperate attempt to resolve my problems. But I got no answer.

All my friends realized what was happening to me. They all turned from me. Except 3 friends which happen to be so close to me now, I can't live without them. They stayed by my side through my rebelion, even if I acted like a jerk.
I continued to cry out to God. But I got no answer. So it came to the end. I was so miserable I wanted to die.

I was alone the night of November 1st, 2005, I was doing some bad stuff online and I felt miserable about it. So I took out a knife and put it to my chest. As I was about to pierce it in, the phone rang. I answered it and my best friend just said in the phone, "STOP!! Don't do it!! I love you! All of us love you!! Don't do it!! Come back to me. I miss you my child!" I stopped in dead silence. I automatically knew. That was a word from God saying it will all be over, Just come to me. Me and my friend talked for about 2 hours. I spilled everything. But she seemed to already know. She prayed with me and I was free of everything. I was free.

But then I began to lapse back into cussing....This time only I knew it....I cussed a few times in front of some people.....but not enough to fight over. I had been cussing to myself, under my breath and in the privacy of my room for about 8 months after I got freed of it before. I felt horrible about it. No one knew.....But then demons began to control my mind....I couldn't sleep. All of it, my past and the present were being tormented in my head....demons saying that God can't forgive me for this or that. I was a wreck. I thought I had given it up already....but my mind said otherwise.....

My same friend who helped me before had been praying with me for about 6 months but it wouldn't stop the demons.......I couldn't get them out of my mind.

I have been struggling with this up until last night.
So last night, I gave it up. I gave it all up. Everything I did in my past....all of it. I have had no more demons torment me since last night. It is a true miracle.

My friend had saved me of everything, even the worst. To this day I cannot thank her enough. She is so dear and close to my heart now, she is like my mother. So I want to thank you Dawn. For all the things you've helped me with in my life. For believing that I could make it through even though I couldn't on my own. For always being there. You are truly my miracle. I love you so much, and you will always be my Godsend. :)

And to the other 2 who helped my in my time of need. Joey and Theresa. Thank you guys so much. I would not be here right now without you two.
 

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I have a Miracle story also!
Do you believe in MIRACLES? Jesus is still in the Miracle working business today! I am proof of that. Jesus also has a plan & a purpose for everyone. I was always nagging my husband, who is a firefighter/medical first responder, about being gone to all the time to calls,training, and classes. But who would have know that all of his training, knowledge & skills would all come into play on March 4,2004 to help save my live,when I suffered a brain hemmorhage he was able to keep me breathing until EMS got there to help me. Here is My Miracle Story!
Here is my 'Miracle' story My desire is that I can help someone else have Hope during a tramatic situtation.

On March 4, 2004,at the age of 30, I suffered a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding between the middle membrane covering of the brain & the brain itself). It was a mess to say the least.
- Marc (husband) found me unconscious on the bed not breathing (without any warning signs that there was something wrong)
- Because I had been so near death my heart started to shut down
- Fluid was filling up in my lungs
- I stopped breathing twice on Marc and he had to help me breath
- My jaws locked down and the paramedics couldn’t get a breathing tube in
- Was life-flighted to St. Mary’s Hospital where one of the Best neurosurgeons (Dr. Kimberly Walpert) was waiting
- Dr. Walpert put a tube in my head to release the blood and relieve the pressure, soon after she inserted the tube; I began to respond. I couldn’t talk because I had the respiratory tube in but the next day I was writing notes and asking all kinds of questions
- Dr. Walpert said- 5 more seconds of bleeding and I wouldn’t have made it (she said that I was as close to dead as she’s seen without being dead)
- They said that it was the fastest bleeding kind of brain hemorrhage and it is extremely rare for someone to survive something like this
- It was a miracle that it stopped bleeding and clotted itself off when it did
- I experienced painful muscle spasms after the drainage tube in my head was removed and as the spinal fluid began to regulate itself, the pressure inside my body became so intense
- I experienced tremendous back pain that the Dr.’s said would subside as the blood dissipated from the spinal fluid
- Due to the hemorrhage, I now have problems with paying attention, concentrating, I’m slow & inefficient, impulsive, forgetful,& confused most of the time. My processing speed has been affected so I process things at a much slower rate
- My main ICU nurse said that he had never seen anything like it, that “I was one in thousands of thousands.” They said I would be in ICU for 2-3 weeks and then in a step-down room about that long. They moved me out of ICU in a week and I was at home in less than 2 weeks.
- I was supposed to be in the hospital for at least a month if not longer
- through the whole experience all the Dr.’s and nurses were amazed at my recovery.
- Although I still had the intense back pain and spasms I knew that God was faithful to complete the GOOD work that he had started.


After 7 months of intense back aches and painful spasms that started to affect my daily activities, Dr. Walpert ordered a MRI and that’s when they found an AVM in my spine
AVM- (arteriovenous malformation) is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain or spine. An AVM can be thought of as a “short circuit” where the blood doesn’t go to the tissues but is pumped through the short connection, artery-vein and back to the heart without ever giving nutrients to the tissues, this arrangement is a problem because it does not give the spinal cord a chance to absorb oxygen form the blood. Spinal tissues are starved of normal amounts of oxygen, and the cells that make up these tissues begin to deteriorate or die off. It also puts the thin walled veins under a lot of pressure. Over time, the veins or the abnormal group of blood (the AVM) may rupture and cause a spinal or brain hemorrhage. (That was the cause of the subarachnoid hemorrhage)
Spinal AVM’s occur anywhere along the spinal cord and develop inside the protective dura and close to, on or within the spinal cord. They are believed to be congenital (present at birth), caused by mistakes that occur during embryonic or fetal development. (Just think God protected me through my childhood, it could have ruptured at any time)
Death from the first hemorrhage is between 10-30 percent. Once a hemorrhage has occurred, the AVM is 9 times more likely to bleed again during the first year.

I was referred to Dr. Barrow; (one of only three) Dr.’s in the country that could do an operation if I needed one. On November 16, 2004, I had an 8 hour operation to remove the mass of tangled blood vessels that were wrapped in my spinal cord. It was a long and painful 3 & ½ months recovery due to the complications from the healing process.I now have a big scar with a lot of scar tissue that has made it painful for me to do the simple things that most people take for granted like walking, sitting, driving, bending, going up & down stairs etc. It has affected all parts of my life and has left me being depressed because I can’t do things with my family that I use to and I’m always in pain. And not to mention all the stress from the medical bills that were over $100,000. But we are CELEBRATING because I am ALIVE Through the recovery process we learned a lot. We have a lot to be thankful for - we have seen and felt God’s love for us, and we have seen God work in our lives.
It has brought me, Marc & the kids closer. We were able to show our kids that God really does have a plan and a purpose for us. Although we had some very difficult times and it was not easy, all the pain and trauma I went through, I wouldn’t change a thing because of what we have learned. I am doing well now and that is a testament to the power of prayer and what a POWERFUL and FAITHFUL God we serve The Lord worked mightily on my behalf and I am TRULY THANKFUL that He saved me and healed me. THE LORD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS

Keep Believing in Miracles

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Please send this to everyone you know
Thank You & God Bless
Autumn
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