1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,560 Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast, where our mission is to encourage as well as highlight 2 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,940 God's Goodness and modern-day miracles. 3 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:18,080 We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins. 4 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:22,060 Today we have with us a special guest, and we're doing things a little differently today, 5 00:00:22,060 --> 00:00:23,320 so bear with us. 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,840 My husband came down with an illness, but he's not the stereotypical man who you'll 7 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,120 crawl up in bed. 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,000 He will just still get it done. 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,480 So we have our first remote guest with us, Patrice Reardon, and she's going to open 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,080 us up with a little prayer. 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,760 But first, I ask for a little grace, just in case the dogs bark for some crazy reason, 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,160 or because they'll bark at any reason. 13 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,440 And my son might forget we're recording, so just bear with us and we'll just get through 14 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,440 it and we'll just let the Holy Spirit guide us. 15 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,160 And we just pray for a hedge of protection over all our technology and our peace and 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,160 our conversation. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,160 And we just pray that this conversation reaches the hearts and minds of the people it was 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,440 meant for. 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,280 And we lift this up in Jesus' name. 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,680 And now we'll have Patrice about prayers into our episode officially. 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:13,680 So thanks for doing this. 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,840 Heavenly Father, oh, you're so welcome. 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,160 Thank you for having me. 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,760 Heavenly Father, we just come before you, and we thank you for this beautiful day, Lord 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:22,760 God. 26 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,040 Thank you for all the blessings that you've done in my life, Lord Jesus. 27 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,440 I just want to honor you and praise you with all that has happened to me, and to share 28 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,240 my story with everyone, Father, because you're a good, good Father. 29 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,280 And I thank you and I praise you. 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,120 And I lift this whole time up to you in Jesus' holy name, we pray. 31 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,120 Amen. 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,120 Amen. 33 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,120 Amen. 34 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,680 Well, I'm celebrating 10 years since my brain aneurysms. 35 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:53,520 So it's a pretty awesome thing to celebrate 10 years of being alive on this earth to share 36 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,400 Christ with everyone I meet. 37 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,360 10 years ago, it was Valentine's Day. 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,000 I was at work and I wasn't feeling well. 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,520 And I went home and my husband at the time had a beautiful meal cooked for me, and we 40 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,480 had Valentine's Day and he had flowers. 41 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:10,480 It was beautiful. 42 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,320 And then I went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night screaming because I had 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,000 a brain aneurysm. 44 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,120 He jumped out of bed and he said, what's wrong? 45 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,120 What do I do? 46 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,680 And I said, get me to the hospital. 47 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,520 I'm having a stroke. 48 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,360 And so he threw me in the truck and awfully went to the hospital. 49 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,240 And the whole way I kept praying, God, please be with me. 50 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,400 I could sense, I knew it was going to be bad, but I didn't know how bad. 51 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,560 And then we got to the hospital and they did a quick brain scan and they said, you're 52 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,080 bleeding on the brain. 53 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,240 We're going to call Life Flight to come get you. 54 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,240 And so we waited for a little while and Life Flight called back and said, we can't get 55 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,240 you. 56 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,960 It's snowing so bad, you're going to have to wait for an ambulance. 57 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,640 So I was in so much pain and I'm praying and I'm like, Lord, please help me. 58 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:59,640 And everybody in that hospital heard me praying because I was in so much pain. 59 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:03,000 I was just crying out to the Lord in that time. 60 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,160 And my family was just, they didn't know what to do. 61 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,160 They were scared. 62 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,480 They were distraught. 63 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:14,360 And so the ambulance came and got me and awfully went to the trauma unit because they needed 64 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,520 a higher trauma unit for what they were going to have to do. 65 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:23,480 So off I go and I go to the hospital and they opened the doors and the snow is falling so 66 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,480 beautiful. 67 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:25,960 It was the most beautiful sight. 68 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,160 And that was the last I had consciousness. 69 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:33,200 I fell out of consciousness and they wheeled me into the hospital and they had to medicate 70 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,200 me. 71 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,760 And so they were waiting till the medication was, and then they said, okay, we're going 72 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,280 to be taking you into brain surgery. 73 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,040 And I said, Father, please shepherd me through this surgery. 74 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,640 I know you've already stood where I'm going. 75 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:48,440 I need your help, Lord. 76 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,880 I don't know what's going to happen, but let thy will be done. 77 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,360 And I trust you, Lord, with everything I give it all to you. 78 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,600 And so they wheeled me into the operating room and they already sedated me and everything. 79 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,520 And I was in there and I knew the Lord got me. 80 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,640 I just said, Lord, you have me. 81 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,640 I'm yours. 82 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,640 I'm your child. 83 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:08,740 I trust you. 84 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:11,240 So off they started to do the surgery. 85 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,280 They told my family it would take about four hours. 86 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,000 Well midway through about five to six hours, they came out and they said, I'm sorry, we 87 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,120 ran into a complication. 88 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:27,360 Your wife has had another massive aneurysm causes another hemorrhagic stroke. 89 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,000 And they said, for us to do surgery on the other side of the brain, we have to cut the 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,240 blood supply from the other side to work on the other side of the brain. 91 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:42,840 And when that happens, a lot of times your heart stops and my heart stopped twice in 92 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,400 surgery. 93 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:51,240 And when that happened, I was above my body and I was looking down and I could see all 94 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,720 the surgeons around me and I wasn't afraid. 95 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,880 I just was looking around and then I glanced to my right and there was this most incredible 96 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:05,080 angel standing right beside my body and he was just breathtaking. 97 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,440 And I looked at him and he said, don't be afraid. 98 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:13,960 And so when he said that it was like a wave of peace just rushed over me and I was like 99 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,120 in this beautiful piece and then I looked around and I looked at my body, then I looked 100 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,000 back at him and he said, do not be afraid. 101 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,640 And as he was standing in front of him, he had a huge sword. 102 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,240 Within me, I was not afraid. 103 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:31,200 And then I looked down again at the surgeon and then the angel spoke again and he said, 104 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,840 he is helping you. 105 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:39,000 And then after he spoke that, I went back into my body and the surgery went on for 17 106 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,560 and a half hours. 107 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,400 And so they wheel me into intensive care. 108 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,400 When that happened, when the second aneurysm gave way, they were just about to put my skull 109 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:56,520 back on and then they noticed there was blood and the team, somebody in the team screamed 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,760 and said, listen, she's bleeding. 111 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,160 She's bleeding. 112 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,080 And so they jumped into gear again and they had to trace where the other aneurysm was. 113 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,600 So they had just clipped the first aneurysm and they were going to put the skull back 114 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,200 on and then they saw the blood. 115 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,960 They told me that if they wouldn't have seen the blood, I would have passed the next hour 116 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,760 because the aneurysm had given way. 117 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:24,560 And so they traced it and then they finally, they had to go through my eye, they compressed 118 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:31,360 my one eye to go through to my temple to clip the one that was in my temple that gave way. 119 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,960 So finally I'm in intensive care and I'm in a coma now. 120 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,760 I had fallen into a coma. 121 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,280 It was four days in a coma. 122 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:43,880 Going close to the fifth day, the surgeons all came in and the only one that was in the 123 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,440 room was my daughter. 124 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,480 She was writing a letter to me and she kept saying, mom, please wake up, please wake up, 125 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,160 mom, please. 126 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:57,920 And the surgeons came in and they said, please call your family and tell them that she's 127 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:04,040 going to pass by morning because we want them to get a chance to say goodbye to me because 128 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,240 I was no longer breathing on my own. 129 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,400 I only, the only thing that was breathing for me was the ventilator. 130 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,440 And they said, they've seen this so much. 131 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,360 They said she's so weak. 132 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,320 She's been through so much. 133 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,040 Her body has been through racks of, you know, processes of us doing things. 134 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,720 They said that we've seen this happen. 135 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,360 A lot of times they just succumb to the weakness and they pass on. 136 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:32,840 And so my daughter, who studied nursing at the time, she understood all the medical terms 137 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,840 of what they were saying. 138 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,800 But you know, she said, you're still my mom. 139 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:43,040 And when they left, she was like hysterically crying and she looked up and there was a Christian 140 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:48,440 brother standing in the doorway and he came in and she just fell apart and just told him 141 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:49,440 what happened. 142 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,880 And he said, don't worry, we're going to pray for her. 143 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,320 We're going to lay hands on her right now. 144 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,520 And he grabbed my daughter and they both prayed and they laid hands on me. 145 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,880 And I had my family all over there. 146 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,360 I have family in Georgia that were praying. 147 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,720 And my oldest brother, Artie, is a born again Christian. 148 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:11,800 And he said, he called my parents and he said, you know, the Lord said she's going to get 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,000 through this. 150 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,680 He said, it's going to be rough, but she's going to get through this. 151 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,640 I just feel the Lord's going to pull her through. 152 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,440 And so he had great faith and he kept trusting in the Lord that he was going to bring me 153 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:24,640 through. 154 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,160 And so the next morning came the fifth day I'm in a coma. 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,720 The morning came and I woke up. 156 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:38,360 The Lord answered our prayers and I woke up and I could hear people crying. 157 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,360 See when I woke up, I was blind. 158 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,840 I couldn't see anyone. 159 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,600 I'm still on a ventilator. 160 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,480 So I can't speak. 161 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,920 I heard my daughter say, Mom, can you see me? 162 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:50,360 And I just shook my head. 163 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,280 All I saw was a little sliver of light. 164 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,600 It was the most beautiful light. 165 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,800 And I knew when I saw that I was going to see again because I knew the Lord was there with 166 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:01,800 me. 167 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,920 I just said, thank you, Jesus, in my heart. 168 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,040 When I saw that light and she said, can you see me? 169 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,960 I said, yes, I can see you because I knew I was going to see her. 170 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,160 I knew I was. 171 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,520 And on the third day, my sight came back. 172 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,040 So I could see everybody. 173 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:18,720 There were people were crying. 174 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,440 There were nurses and doctors. 175 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,440 They were overwhelmed. 176 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,800 They said they had never seen anybody recover the way I recovered. 177 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,600 And so I was on a ventilator for many weeks so I couldn't communicate with anyone. 178 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,160 But as soon as that ventilator came out, my room was full of doctors. 179 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,720 They said they had to see the miracle girl. 180 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,240 They had to see what God did because it was a miracle. 181 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,640 They said, you survived. 182 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,600 Not one aneurysm, but two brain aneurysms. 183 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,760 And they just said they had never seen it happen like that. 184 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,440 They had such an experienced team working on me. 185 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:59,280 And I know God, I stayed in the intensive care for 28 days. 186 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,560 And a lot of that, I had a ventilator, but when they did take the ventilator out, they 187 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,760 came in and they asked me questions. 188 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:10,560 And because of the strokes, there's a lot that happens to your brain and a stroke as 189 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:11,560 well. 190 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:12,560 And I had two. 191 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,200 And so I was there in the hospital. 192 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:20,840 And when you have brain trauma, a lot of times they tie you down because they don't want 193 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,920 you to pull at your tubes. 194 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:23,920 And I was doing that. 195 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,520 They said I was a very bad patient. 196 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,280 I was pulling at tubes and I was feisty as all get out. 197 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,160 They said, so they had to tie my arms down. 198 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,400 So I was tied down for most of the time I was in intensive care. 199 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,720 But when I finally got set free from all that, I was pretty excited. 200 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,480 But when I used to pray, my hands would go up real high. 201 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,160 And when you're in intensive care, you're on a camera. 202 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,320 They watch you 24 seven. 203 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,920 And so when that would happen, they would rush in because they didn't know if something 204 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,280 was happening, if I was having a stroke or something was happening. 205 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,800 And so I said, no, I'm just praying. 206 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:00,800 I'm just praying. 207 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,280 And then they said, oh, okay. 208 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,200 Because every time that would happen, it would come back. 209 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,160 I said, I'm just thanking God. 210 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,720 I said, I'm so grateful to him because I'm here. 211 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,920 I'm alive and I'm here and he's got me. 212 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:15,920 God's got me. 213 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:20,880 So they sent me to a rehab facility for two weeks and then they sent me home. 214 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:26,200 And I tell people all the time, I woke up to a world I didn't understand and the world 215 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,120 didn't understand me. 216 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:35,960 So it took five years to recover from the brain trauma plus the physical trauma. 217 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:41,040 And so now I'm 10 years out and I'm so grateful for what God has done. 218 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:46,720 And I share my story wherever I go because I'm alive to share the story of what God 219 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,160 has done for me. 220 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,920 Well, that's an incredible story. 221 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:51,920 Yes. 222 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,120 And I'm just so grateful. 223 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,560 My heart is full of gratitude and God gave me eyes to see through his eyes. 224 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:01,680 Like I see people in a different way. 225 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:04,800 I see his love all over them. 226 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,120 It's so beautiful. 227 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:13,080 And when I just love people, I'm a little quirky, but I'm just me, you know, I just 228 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,560 love people because he loves them and I love them too. 229 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:18,640 I wouldn't consider that quirky. 230 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,880 I would consider that you have literally had an encounter with the living God that radically 231 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,000 altered your life by changing your death. 232 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Yes. 233 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,640 And you see things through a different lens now. 234 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,640 Yes. 235 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,040 And I wouldn't consider that quirky. 236 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,920 I would consider that a gift. 237 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,240 You explained how beautiful the snow was before you lost consciousness being wheeled 238 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,240 into the hospital. 239 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,040 What a serene and beautiful. 240 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,240 Like I can't get that out of my mind. 241 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,080 How peaceful that must have felt. 242 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,880 Not even something was seriously wrong, but being able to enjoy the scenery as you're 243 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,880 being wheeled into someplace that you know not anything is going to happen. 244 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,760 You don't know one minute from the next what you're going to go through. 245 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Yes. 246 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:05,200 And to have that calm and serenity of seeing snowfall, that is just breathtaking to me. 247 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,280 I'd never seen such beauty. 248 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,560 It was so beautiful, guys. 249 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:11,600 It was so beautiful. 250 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,400 And then how cool is it that a couple of days after your 10 year anniversary, you get to 251 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,880 talk about it on a podcast that's in 19 countries so far. 252 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,640 I'm so blessed. 253 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,920 And then we have snow the night before. 254 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,640 So it's covered the day that you tell about this story. 255 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:28,640 Yes. 256 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:29,640 Yes. 257 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,640 Yes. 258 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:31,640 So cool. 259 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:32,640 He is so good. 260 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:33,640 And I'm so grateful. 261 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,760 My heart is so full. 262 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:41,720 I just share how much he loves you, how much he loves all of us so much. 263 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,120 His love is so great. 264 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,760 I always tell people, you don't realize how much he loves you. 265 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,200 I always tell people, he just doesn't like you or care about you. 266 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,480 He loves you with an everlasting love. 267 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,640 It's a love that is beyond words. 268 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,920 He's so precious to him and he cares so much for you. 269 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:02,360 I'm in such awe of our God. 270 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,960 Our God is so awesome. 271 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,600 I think another evidence of how much he loves you was illustrated that you said the angel 272 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:09,600 had a sword. 273 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:10,600 Yes. 274 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,600 He was breathtaking. 275 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,920 So he's not obviously fighting off anybody in the hospital room. 276 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:15,920 Right? 277 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,440 He's not planning on defending you against the doctors who are saving you, but he is 278 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,000 defending you against something. 279 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Yes. 280 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,960 Otherwise he wouldn't have a sword. 281 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,480 And you didn't see anything else in that room. 282 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:30,160 So he's doing a good job of whatever his job was, other than keeping you calm and full 283 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,160 of peace. 284 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,400 So he wasn't just with you, but he sent you a bodyguard. 285 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,480 So the enemy couldn't interfere in the actions of the doctors. 286 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:42,200 He sent you a warrior to stand on your behalf, but you couldn't stand for yourself. 287 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:48,060 And he loved you so much that he handpicked a messenger to stand over you, to keep watch 288 00:14:48,060 --> 00:14:49,060 over you. 289 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:53,320 I've been to the military and it's a pretty rewarding job to pull guard duty on someone 290 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,920 completely helpless knowing that you're that you actually are making a huge difference 291 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:58,920 for somebody. 292 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Oh, wow. 293 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:00,920 God is so good. 294 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:01,920 And you know what? 295 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,920 He was so beautiful. 296 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,520 I kept staring at him. 297 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,040 I thought I've never seen anybody so beautiful as him. 298 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,400 And he was a warrior, like you said, a warrior standing there. 299 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,000 And then with that sword, I was just like, wow, Lord, you're awesome. 300 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,200 Thank you, Father. 301 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,040 He's so wonderful. 302 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,240 To me, it's surprising that you had an anus among one side and then the other side of 303 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:28,240 your head. 304 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,840 Yes, that seems like it's not a natural occurrence to have one rupture and then while they're 305 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,960 fixing one, the other side pops. 306 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:40,720 Yes, it feels very much like you were being attacked in the physical by something not 307 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:41,720 seeable. 308 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:42,720 Right. 309 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,320 Which would have another reason why that that angel was there to make sure nothing else 310 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:47,320 popped. 311 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,320 Exactly. 312 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,440 And they said they had never seen that ever happened in surgery. 313 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,760 They said they such an experienced pain. 314 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,000 They said this was just beyond what they had seen before. 315 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,840 And I knew the enemy, but the enemy tried to steal, kill and destroy. 316 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,080 God said no. 317 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,720 Our God said no. 318 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,280 And he said that angel to stand guard over me. 319 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:15,680 And as they were searching out the second aneurysm, and when I turned to him, the angel said, 320 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,040 he is helping you, meaning the surgeon. 321 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:24,040 And I looked down, this whole team was working on me and also see they had to revive me because 322 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,120 my heart stopped twice. 323 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,840 And every time that they tried to go forward, my heart would stop. 324 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:35,040 There was all these things happening and they were just fighting and fighting to help me, 325 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,400 you know, to save me as best they could. 326 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,040 Yeah, I'm also an EMT. 327 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,760 So I'm very familiar with a lot of the terms that you're putting out there as well. 328 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:47,320 And I have taken people in snowstorms from a hospital to another because the flight team 329 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,320 was grounded. 330 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:49,320 Yeah. 331 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,200 But oftentimes if they're that critical, we go and pick up the flight crew and drive 332 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:58,800 them because they're nurses and higher level medical care than we provide on an ambulance. 333 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,840 So we're basically the ride. 334 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,040 And I've taken many a person from one hospital to another where they can get better care. 335 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,040 Yes. 336 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,040 Yes. 337 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,120 I've also not left some hospitals because the people were so critical that they actually 338 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:13,240 passed before we could put them on our stretcher. 339 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,120 So by the time they call a flight team, that's how bad you are. 340 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:20,480 Yeah, they said right away, they said, we called life flight immediately. 341 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,360 And then like, like call back and said, we can't get to her because of the snow was so 342 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:26,880 great, we can't take off. 343 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,960 And they said, call an ambulance, a local ambulance as quickly as possible. 344 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:31,960 And that's what happened. 345 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:36,440 I waited and how God protected me even in all time. 346 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,200 God was still with me the whole time. 347 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,120 And I was like, thank you, Jesus. 348 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:45,880 I kept saying, Lord, see when I was praying, I was praying pretty loudly and people in 349 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:52,440 that ambulance knew I was praying because I was crying out to my savior at that point. 350 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,960 And he was truly, truly present with me. 351 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,040 And I could feel him in the ambulance with me. 352 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:00,920 And I just kept thanking him and thanking him. 353 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,480 I said, Lord, I know you have me and I trust you. 354 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,920 I give it all to you. 355 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,040 I trust you no matter what happens to me. 356 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,640 I trust you. 357 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,520 And I knew because when I said that little prayer before they took me in because I always 358 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,560 tell him, he's my king and my shepherd. 359 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,000 And I said, I need you to shepherd me, Lord. 360 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 And he did. 361 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,040 He shepherd me through the whole thing. 362 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,040 He's so good. 363 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:26,560 We serve a great God. 364 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:32,680 Have you been in contact with any of the people that assisted in your medical miracle after 365 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:37,520 the incident to see how many people have asked questions about God because of what they've 366 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:38,520 seen in you? 367 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,240 Well, I asked my surgeon. 368 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:45,720 And I said, I saw you in surgery and he said, he said, sometimes many people say they see 369 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,200 me in surgery. 370 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,240 I said, the Lord told me not to be afraid. 371 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,240 He said, I'm glad you weren't afraid. 372 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,880 He was so funny. 373 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:59,200 And then he married one of the nurses in intensive care that took care of me. 374 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:05,240 So when I see my surgeon, see, I have another aneurysm in there, but it's very tiny and 375 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,240 they visit. 376 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,680 I see him once a year for a scan. 377 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,560 And it's just a follow up to make sure they check everything else too. 378 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:18,640 I was going to go visit the ICU again and talk to some of the nurses there because I 379 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,600 know there's a few nurses that are still there. 380 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,240 And so they were just fabulous, wonderful people. 381 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,560 I'm so truly blessed. 382 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:32,440 And I went to a neurologist for something minor and he said, I wish my wife could meet 383 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,920 you because she's one of the ICU nurses that took care of you as well. 384 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,200 Oh, wow. 385 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,720 And I said, wow, thank you, Jesus. 386 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:47,280 You know, I mean, God just did a beautiful tapestry of his love through this whole thing. 387 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,840 He wove his love through every step, every person that touched me, every person that 388 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,160 took care of me in intensive care. 389 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,080 I would talk about Jesus to them. 390 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:02,040 I would share, I would read my Bible and I would just, when they did take the ventilator 391 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:07,880 out and I could talk, you know, but they used to bring teams of doctors in to see me because 392 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,960 they hadn't, they just said, we heard through the hospital about a miracle that happened 393 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,880 here and everybody wants to meet you. 394 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:21,760 So I, being, when you come out of brain trauma, you don't always understand the world. 395 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:26,840 And so all these people were, you know, asking me questions and I was trying the best to 396 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,280 answer them, but a lot of questions I got wrong, but that's okay. 397 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,280 You know, I'm here. 398 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,280 Yeah, yeah, sure. 399 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,280 That's understandable. 400 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,280 That's okay. 401 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:41,000 You had trauma on the right and left hemisphere of your brain. 402 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Right. 403 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Exactly. 404 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Exactly. 405 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:50,440 So when I go for scans and I see other doctors read my scan, I always look at their face 406 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:55,760 because I know it's pretty horrific to see, but you know what, what little I have, it's 407 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,800 God's and I serve him. 408 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,640 I serve the living God. 409 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:05,880 And so whatever I have left, I give him honor and glory and I give him everything. 410 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,160 Everything I have is his and each day is a gift. 411 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:14,920 It's a true gift to live and serve God in any way he wants me to. 412 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:21,600 I try to show love and care wherever I go because, you know, our God is love and we 413 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,760 have to show that love to other people and that's what we're called to do. 414 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,960 And that's what makes you a great reader at church. 415 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,600 Oh, I just love them all so much. 416 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:38,440 I try so hard to remember everybody's names, but I still forget certain people's names. 417 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,440 Oh, there's so many. 418 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:46,200 I've never had any brain trauma that I'm aware of and I can't remember people's names. 419 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,760 I wouldn't focus on that as a fault. 420 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,760 Right. 421 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,320 I think it's amazing how you were in a coma for only a short time. 422 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,600 Was it, you said three days you said? 423 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:57,600 Five. 424 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Five. 425 00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,600 Five. 426 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,600 Five. 427 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,400 Because Tiffany Dawson was on, as you know. 428 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,400 You and I were talking earlier at church and you guys could start a club with all the 429 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,440 aneurysms that God has brought people through and her coma was 45 days. 430 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:12,440 Wow. 431 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Praise the Lord. 432 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,280 You know, she didn't see angels, but she took a vision to heaven. 433 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:23,120 But anyway, listen to that episode if you guys haven't listened to that yet. 434 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,680 But God is so good. 435 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,720 He's working people through aneurysms and they each have their own specific story about 436 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:35,960 it and how God spoke to them during that time and just healed them and just brought them 437 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,600 out a new person. 438 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:38,600 I know. 439 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,600 I know. 440 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:44,320 And you know, when they sent me to rehab, that was really hard because they want you 441 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,520 to use parts of your body that was not working. 442 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:52,320 My left side was not working and it was giving me trouble and I got discouraged. 443 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,040 And you know, I just said, okay, God, you can heal my body. 444 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,040 You healed my brain. 445 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,040 You can heal my body. 446 00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,040 Yeah. 447 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,640 And so it was a trial, but you know, he was so good. 448 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,480 He helped me through it all. 449 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,120 I can't imagine having to learn everything all over again. 450 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,120 Yes. 451 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:10,120 Start all over. 452 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,560 And see when you have strokes, you lose your memory. 453 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,240 That was so hard to remember things. 454 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,960 And my kids used to say, mom, you already told me that. 455 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,400 And I said, did I? 456 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,400 And they said, yeah. 457 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:31,240 And so it was hard on my children because they saw this mom, this 49 year old mom, perfectly 458 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,200 fine and now I'm going to be 60 this year. 459 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,520 And you know, they said, you really changed a lot, but that core of who you are always 460 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,040 stayed the same as Jesus, the love of Jesus. 461 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,680 And my kids are pretty tough. 462 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,240 They've been through a lot, but they love Jesus and they're growing in the love of God 463 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,240 too. 464 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,920 And I would have messed with you if I were your kids. 465 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:57,520 If you'd told me something the first time I'd have told you said that already. 466 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,760 I'd have had fun. 467 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,760 Well, they're funny. 468 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,320 I used to say quirky things like how heavy is a gallon of milk? 469 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,760 Or can I pick because I had all kinds of restrictions. 470 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,840 I wasn't allowed to do for years. 471 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,840 I wasn't allowed to do. 472 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,040 That's not a legit question. 473 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,040 Milk is heavy. 474 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,040 I say pounds. 475 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,000 Well, they thought they thought I was kind of quirky. 476 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,440 They're like, mom, what are you asking me this for? 477 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,280 Because you want to know if you could live through without hurting yourself. 478 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,280 That's not quirky. 479 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,280 That's common sentence. 480 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,280 That's smart. 481 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,760 We'll see those are the things I was asking. 482 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,880 And my son was like, mother, it's fine. 483 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,440 It's like eight pounds. 484 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,440 He was so cute. 485 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,200 He got the scale and he measured the milk. 486 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,640 He said, look, it's eight pounds. 487 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:43,040 And then he measured the sweeper and he said, you know, anything I got scared of, he always 488 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,080 said, just put it on the scale and make sure because I wasn't allowed to lift over 20 489 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,080 pounds. 490 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:53,560 But it was just things you go through and you think about, you know. 491 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,440 That most of us take for granted. 492 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,440 Yes. 493 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:57,440 Yes. 494 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:58,440 Yes. 495 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,600 And I couldn't drive for years. 496 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,720 And now I'm driving and I'm going further driving and stuff. 497 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,240 I want to drive to New York, but I don't want to go by myself. 498 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,440 And so I have to get somebody to drive with me. 499 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,400 So what's in New York? 500 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,920 My daughter lives in New York. 501 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,680 She doesn't live in the city of New York. 502 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,560 She lives in upstate New York. 503 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,480 It's in the farming country. 504 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,720 So I always tell her, I said, that's my goal this year. 505 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,240 I said, I'm going to drive to your house. 506 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,360 And she's like, okay, okay, mom. 507 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,480 You know, because she's so busy. 508 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:35,320 She runs a company and you know, what little time she has, she comes visits and stuff, 509 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,320 you know. 510 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,680 So, and I have two grandchildren there and one grandchild here in the North Hills. 511 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,040 So I get a chance to see my son today. 512 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,680 And I had a chance to dance at my son's wedding. 513 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:47,680 Oh, awesome. 514 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,680 Yeah. 515 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,280 I danced with him three weeks ago at his wedding. 516 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:57,280 I just couldn't stop crying and he just said, mom, everything's okay and everything's 517 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,280 going to be okay. 518 00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,480 And I said, because God is good. 519 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:00,880 He said, yes, he is. 520 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,680 He is good. 521 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,360 And our family's been through so much and we're so grateful. 522 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:09,200 We're grateful that I can be here and be with him. 523 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,360 I'm so blessed. 524 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:12,240 I'm grateful to hear your story. 525 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:17,240 I hope our listeners feel blessed, but I'm being encouraged by how much God loves them, 526 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,240 that it's not just you. 527 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,320 I mean, he loves you, but it's not just you. 528 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,320 Yes. 529 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,320 Yes. 530 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,360 You know, for God to love the world, and they said it's only be gotten, son, right? 531 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:30,120 The world, that's every single human being in it, every single human being that he bothered 532 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,480 to give life to, he cares deeply for. 533 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:34,480 Amen. 534 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,480 Amen. 535 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,480 Amen. 536 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:37,480 Amen. 537 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:44,000 And when I came out of the surgeries and they sent me home, the Lord gave me Isaiah 46 and 538 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,920 it said, he was saying, I kept saying, father, what do you have for me? 539 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:55,360 And he said, even to your old age and gray hair, I am he, I am he, he who will sustain 540 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,360 you. 541 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,240 I have made you and I will carry you. 542 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,600 I will sustain you and I will rescue you. 543 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,600 That was the scripture I had hanging in my bedroom. 544 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:11,480 And at night I would say that scripture every night before I went to bed and I would thank 545 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:17,200 him and I was so grateful for him loving me and caring me and sustaining me through what 546 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,200 I went through. 547 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,200 I love the art of gratitude you have for it. 548 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,400 I am so grateful. 549 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,200 I am so grateful. 550 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,200 He's so good. 551 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,640 We serve such a good God. 552 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,600 He loves his children so much. 553 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,720 And I just, that's all I see is his love. 554 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,720 And I'm just me and I work with children and I love on them like they're my children. 555 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:46,000 And it's just wonderful to be back in the world with people and getting a chance to 556 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,840 share my story. 557 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:53,320 And then I was at work and I had made a big mistake, which I usually do sometimes. 558 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:59,800 And I put the wrong box in the wrong bag and I gave this beautiful woman her shoes for 559 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,840 her son, grandson, and she left. 560 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,240 And then she called me back and she said, you gave me the wrong shoes. 561 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,400 I said, I am so sorry. 562 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,120 I try so hard not to make mistakes at work. 563 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,560 And then she said, I'll come back tomorrow. 564 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,560 I said, thank you. 565 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,280 And so she came back tomorrow. 566 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,840 I shared my story and she said, I'm a survivor as well. 567 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,400 She had something happen to her as well. 568 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,160 And so her and I had a chance to talk about Jesus. 569 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,440 And even my mistake, God made it all good. 570 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,440 You know? 571 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440 I love it. 572 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,440 I think you're going to have that mistake to have that conversation. 573 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,440 It was so wonderful. 574 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,560 And I just felt such a kinder love for this sweet woman. 575 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,280 I just thought, wow, God, you're so good. 576 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,640 And she left with the right shoes and I left knowing a new friend in Christ. 577 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,760 I was just, I was so blessed. 578 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,760 I was like, thank you, Lord. 579 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,960 Because anytime there's a mistake that worked, I always say, was it mine? 580 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,040 Because I always seem to make a mistake. 581 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,040 Was it me? 582 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,320 It seemed that they really like you there though, because you're still working there. 583 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,680 Well, see, I was there when I had the brain aneurysm. 584 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,440 I was working that day and then I had the aneurysm that night. 585 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,480 These lovely people have loved me for 10 years. 586 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,760 I worked with them for over three years, 13 years ago, and they were so good. 587 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960 They just said, come back to work. 588 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,560 And I said, God will tell me when he wants me to go back. 589 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,280 And then one of the women that works there, she's in her 80s. 590 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,880 She called me and she's 82. 591 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,160 And she said, could you please come back to work? 592 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,320 I said, I'm coming. 593 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,960 So we have a very diverse group that work there. 594 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:36,960 That's awesome. 595 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,880 That's almost like another family. 596 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,520 Exactly, exactly. 597 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,160 It's wonderful to go to work with people you love working with. 598 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,840 And you love working with the public and taking care of these precious little kids. 599 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,960 Children are my, they're my favorite. 600 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,520 Children are my favorite. 601 00:29:54,520 --> 00:30:00,640 I just love working with kids and the Lord's really put that in my path. 602 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,640 Hmm. 603 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,720 Yeah, I see that. 604 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,760 I work in the Children's Ministry at the church and I see a lot of people that absolutely 605 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,440 love working with the children. 606 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,440 Yes, I love it. 607 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,440 Yes. 608 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:12,440 The world needs you people. 609 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,440 Yeah. 610 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,440 It's not for everybody. 611 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,200 It's the best job ever. 612 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,560 Interacting with people and like when you're a retailer or things like that, that can be 613 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,480 very difficult because you're not just dealing with a fresh person with a mission. 614 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,720 You're dealing with a person who has problems of their own and they're bringing in the baggage 615 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,400 of the world with them. 616 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,680 And sometimes it gets difficult because the way they treat you isn't a reflection of you, 617 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,480 but a reflection of what they're carrying. 618 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:38,480 Right. 619 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,120 And it can be very difficult. 620 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:46,400 Whereas kids often don't have that because every moment is a new moment for a child and 621 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,000 they live in the moment. 622 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,560 And that's not to say that kids don't have trauma and it's not to say that kids don't 623 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,720 carry things with them, but for the most part, mostly kids that we deal with don't have that 624 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:59,080 trauma and they're just in the moment kids being kids that enjoy us. 625 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,080 Right. 626 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:05,720 I don't feel the same way that my wife does about kids and I don't feel the same way that 627 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,840 you do about kids. 628 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,800 I have like a different perspective when I'm down there. 629 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,800 I feel more like a shepherd than I do a teacher. 630 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:14,800 Yes. 631 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,840 I feel more like a guardian and someone who guides them in the right direction when they 632 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,840 need it. 633 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,040 That's kind of how I feel my role is in that. 634 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,320 What a privilege to share the love of Christ with them. 635 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,240 What a tremendous privilege. 636 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:33,440 And I'm in awe of these precious little ones that just listen and they ask questions and 637 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,160 I just love it. 638 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,680 And then we were at the Good Friday service and we had two beautiful children come to 639 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,760 Christ that night. 640 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,240 And it was so awesome. 641 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,440 And when they would see me, they just hugged me. 642 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,040 My heart just melted. 643 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,800 I thought, oh Lord, these kids are so precious. 644 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,520 You're little children. 645 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,040 And my heart is just so full with fun. 646 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,320 I love being with them. 647 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,600 I'm just a big kid at heart. 648 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,600 I always tell them. 649 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,080 I said, you guys, I don't care. 650 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,160 I'll play games with you. 651 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,640 I don't care. 652 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,120 I enjoy all that stuff. 653 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,760 You know, they're always funny. 654 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,160 They're like, hey, Miss Patrice, do you want to play the game? 655 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,000 I thought, of course. 656 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000 That's what is your answer. 657 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Yes, I'm playing. 658 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,360 That's right. 659 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360 That's right. 660 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,360 We're going to do it. 661 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,960 We're going to have fun doing it. 662 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:23,960 That's so awesome. 663 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,000 You sound so happy. 664 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,360 I am very happy. 665 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,640 I'm a very happy person. 666 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,720 The physical things that the Lord has restored for me. 667 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,440 And I'm just so happy. 668 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,440 Each day is a gift. 669 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,640 I always tell my children, today is a gift. 670 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:48,120 What is rejoice in that gift today, that we can be together as a family? 671 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,280 And my son just called. 672 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920 He says, what are you and Grandma doing this afternoon? 673 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,440 I said, why would he got plans? 674 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,320 He said, let's go for dinner. 675 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,600 He said, I haven't seen you for a while. 676 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,640 I said, OK, I'll meet you. 677 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:05,440 So I get a chance to sit and have dinner with my son and his beautiful wife and their little 678 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,440 girl. 679 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,440 And I'm so blessed. 680 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,480 Well, what's that I say in the Bible? 681 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,680 For the joy of the Lord is my strength. 682 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,680 Amen. 683 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,680 Amen. 684 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,160 And you are definitely portraying the strength of the Lord through the joy. 685 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,160 Yes. 686 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,160 Yes. 687 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,920 He's so good. 688 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,640 If I could jump and leap like I did before I could do it, but I can't do it anymore. 689 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,000 Well, you said you were 60 now or coming up on 60. 690 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,320 So I don't expect you to. 691 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,320 Yeah. 692 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,320 Yeah. 693 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,320 I'm going to be. 694 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:37,480 What is that? 695 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,240 A senior citizen here before you know it. 696 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,360 But that's OK. 697 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,360 It is. 698 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,240 It is because I'm great. 699 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,720 Ten years ago you might not have made it this far. 700 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:48,720 That's right. 701 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,720 That's right. 702 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,760 If they didn't do what they did to help me, I probably, you know, would have had the 703 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,640 Lord stepped in and he took away the deficit. 704 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,760 Some of the deficits I could have really had as well, you know, but he allowed me to go 705 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,120 through what I went through and I'm grateful because he went through it with me. 706 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,720 I didn't go through it alone. 707 00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:11,560 You know, I have people say, are you afraid to die? 708 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,880 I said, are you kidding? 709 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,640 I'm not afraid to die. 710 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,760 You mean to go in eternity with my king? 711 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:18,760 No. 712 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:19,760 Yeah. 713 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,760 No. 714 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,760 Not at all. 715 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,200 I went out with them friends and we celebrated 10 years and they said, are you afraid to 716 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,200 die? 717 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,160 I said, nope, I'm not afraid to die. 718 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,840 And my one friend said to me, OK, death, where's your sting now? 719 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,240 You know, I don't, I'm not really afraid of either. 720 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:41,000 When I think about it, I really think about what my family does without me is my only 721 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000 thought. 722 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,720 I don't really consider my aspect of it. 723 00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:45,720 Right. 724 00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:46,720 It's a done deal. 725 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:48,880 If I'm going to be with the king, I'm going to be with the king. 726 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:49,880 That's right. 727 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,080 And if I'm going to be with my family, I'm going to be with my family. 728 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,360 It's not really up to me. 729 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,360 That's right. 730 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:57,360 That's right. 731 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,240 And I just, it's so beautiful. 732 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,240 Yeah. 733 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:02,960 And you were saying that, you know, every day is a gift. 734 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:03,960 Yes. 735 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,160 And I was thinking back to a movie that came through Panda and they had a turtle master 736 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,560 Ugway and he was talking about, no, don't, you know, forget about the past and don't 737 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,240 worry about the future. 738 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,120 Today is a gift and that's why they call it a present. 739 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,120 That's right. 740 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,120 That's right. 741 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,120 It's funny. 742 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,120 It's cute. 743 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,120 But today is a gift because it's a present. 744 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,120 That's what I was thinking in my head. 745 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:30,960 Well, at least one of us is brave enough to say that quite point out loud. 746 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,960 That's why you're here. 747 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:32,960 Teamwork. 748 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,960 That's why it makes the dream work. 749 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:40,720 Well, thank you so much for letting me share my story with you and with your listeners. 750 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:42,960 Oh my gosh, I'm blessed by hearing it. 751 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,440 That was the, and the timing was really cool too. 752 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,960 Oh God, work that out. 753 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:47,960 Yes. 754 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:48,960 Yes. 755 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:49,960 That was awesome. 756 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,960 I didn't realize that when we planned it, it was after right after your 10 year anniversary. 757 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:53,960 Oh my goodness. 758 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,680 And we're actually having the interview a few days after the 10 year anniversary. 759 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,920 It's not going to air for a while, but the interview itself and the house. 760 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:03,920 Yes. 761 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,920 How amazing in the snow and all the things that are lining up for this. 762 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:07,920 Yes. 763 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:08,920 Yes. 764 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,920 Just to reinforce it. 765 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:11,920 Right. 766 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:12,920 Right. 767 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,640 The God of details. 768 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,840 Everything about us is so beautifully and wonderfully made in details. 769 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:25,160 You know, and our walk with him is such rich in details of his fingerprints. 770 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:30,880 I always tell people that's God's fingerprints all over that because he's a God of details 771 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,640 and everything is so beautifully done. 772 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:39,480 And it's so vibrant before us, his love of this great God who loves us so much within 773 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,480 these fingerprints. 774 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,800 Absolutely breathtaking story. 775 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:45,800 Beautiful. 776 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,120 I love hearing the joy in your voice. 777 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,440 I love hearing the miracle that God has performed on you. 778 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,840 I love hearing about how he sent a bodyguard to protect you and to keep you calm so that 779 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,360 you knew you were safe. 780 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,000 I love how you defied the odds. 781 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,040 I love how you reconnect with some of the doctors and nurses and such. 782 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,040 And the nurses, yes. 783 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,760 And unexpected places even. 784 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,840 And met up with another woman who had a similar survivor story. 785 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,840 Yes. 786 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,960 I just totally blessed to hear your story. 787 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,520 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day and sharing that with us. 788 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,520 Thank you. 789 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,520 Thank you so much. 790 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:19,520 I love you both so much. 791 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:20,520 God bless you all. 792 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,200 We love you too. 793 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,800 And with this episode has been a blessing to you. 794 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,360 We ask that you pass it along to a friend so you can be an encouragement to them as well. 795 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:34,320 And also we have a fundraising campaign to help with the audio expenses. 796 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,480 So if you'd like to give to that, we look up God's, or Givesango.com and look up God's 797 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,480 goodness podcast and then you can make your donation there and we greatly appreciate it. 798 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:57,120 And with that, we'll talk to you next time.