I AM A CANCER SURVIVOR AND THIS IS MY STORY...
By Lynne C.
March 2010
ON JULY 13, 2001, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH INCURABLE RIGHT TERMINAL LUNG CANCER, LEFT WITH 6 -MONTHS TO LIVE WITH NO CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. THE CANCER HAD SPREAD AND MY DOCTORS ADVICE WAS NO CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIATION AND IF I DID, DUE TO MY WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM, I WOULD HAVE LESS THAN 3 MONTHS TO LIVE. I WAS TOLD, "TO ENJOY MY TIME LEFT, PREPARE MY WILL AND RESTING PLACE."
AS I SLEPT THAT NIGHT, THE LORD LED ME IN DIRECTION TO HAVE CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION AND I FOLLOWED HIS DIRECTION. MY FAITH WAS STRONG AND I OBEYED. JUDE 20: "BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST."MY FAMILY WAS CALLED IN, FIVE SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER AND MY THREE CHILDREN. THE DOCTOR TOLD THEM I WAS SPEAKING OF SCRIPTURES, GOD, AND HEALING. I WAS PROBABLY IN SHOCK AND NOT OF SOUND MIND AND BODY, ALSO DUE TO THE MORPHINE, AND MEDICATIONS. MY CHILDREN STOOD IN FAITH, MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS BEING ATHEIST, "THOSE WHO DENY GOD'S EXISTENCE EITHER ACTUALLY OR PRACTICALLY." PSALM 14:1, PSALM 10: 4, 11.
I ASKED FOR, AND SPOKE TO A MINISTER. MY SISTERS AND BROTHER TRIED TO GET POWER OF ATTORNEY AS MY CHILDREN STOOD IN FAITH OF MY DECISIONS. MY SIBLINGS LOST, GOD WON. I LOST MY SIBLINGS FOR AWHILE.. I WENT THROUGH TWENTY ONE TREATMENTS OF RADIATION AND ONE YEAR OF CHEMOTHERAPY. AFTER A YEAR, I TRASHED THE MORPHINE AND MEDICATIONS. THE 24-7 OXYGEN DOWN TO ONLY AS I NEEDED IT. I HAD NO WITHDRAWALS FROM MEDICATIONS. I WENT FROM BEDRIDDEN TO A WHEELCHAIR, TO CRUTCHES. FROM PUTTING MYSELF IN WATER THERAPY AS A PATIENT, TO HELP TEACH THE SAME .
NOW, MY DOCTORS CALL ME "GOD'S LITTLE MIRACLE." MY SIBLINGS HEALTH STARTED FAILING A FEW YEARS LATER. I STARTED GETTING PHONE CALLS FROM EACH AND EVERYONE. SO MANY QUESTIONS THEY HAD TO ASK ME. "HOW I HANDLED MY SICKNESS?" ETC... THE FIRST ANSWER WAS THE "LORD". THIS JULY 13, 2010 I WILL BE CELEBRATING NINE YEARS OF SURVIVAL!
I TOLD THEM:
- "ASK THE LORD TO TEACH YOU HIS WAYS"
- "SEEK TO KNOW GOD; AND FAITH WILL FOLLOW"
- "PRAYER CHANGES THINGS, WORRY CHANGE'S NOTHING"
- "TO LOVE GOD IS TO OBEY HIS WORD"
- "THANK GOD YOUR SALVATION DOES NOT DEPEND ON YOU!"
- "BY HIS STRIPES I WAS HEALED."
- "GOD IS MORE LIKELY TO SPEAK TO YOU WITH A GENTLE WHISPER AND NOT A LOUD VOICE."
MY PRAYER:
I COME UNTO YOU OH GOD, YOU ARE GREAT AND I PRAISE YOUR NAME.
I KNOW IT'S YOUR WAY, YOUR WILL, YOUR TIME. I SING YOUR PRAISES AND GLORIFY YOUR NAME. BEFORE YOU I WORSHIP, BEFORE YOU I STAND IN EVERYWAY. I THIRST TO CONTINUE YOUR WORD.
THROUGH MY SICKNESS AND OTHER TRIALS, YOU HAVE ALLOWED ME TO TOUCH MANY. THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE SENT TO ME IN SICKNESS, PAIN, THE ABUSED, THEIR QUESTIONS ...HAVE BEEN MANY AND THEIR RESPONSE, A BLESSING.
I THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME TRIALS TO OVERCOME, THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH; TO LEARN, TO GROW IN YOUR NAME. I FEEL SO MUCH CLOSER TO YOUR LORD FOR THE CHALLENGES I'VE FACED.
I HAVE FELT , IN A SMALL PART , THE WAY YOU WERE PERSECUTED. THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU LORD, THAT'S WHY I SING YOUR PRAISES, BECAUSE YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE-TO FORGIVE.
THANK YOU LORD FOR ALLOWING ME ANOTHER LIFE IN YOUR NAME. I UNDERSTOOD YOU HAD A PURPOSE FOR ME. THANK YOU FOR MY FIRST DOOR WHICH OPENED WHICH BROUGHT MY FAMILY TO SEEK YOU. "OUR" VERY FIRST ACCOMPLISMENT LORD. THEY KNOW NOW, "BY YOUR STRIPES, I WAS HEALED.".
ALL THE GLORY BE GIVEN TO GOD THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
IN JESUS HOLY NAME,
AMEN.
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