Surgery was not needed! Through prayer, the atherosclerotic plaques disappeared! A testimony of miraculous healing.
A little over a year ago, I began experiencing dizziness. It happened more and more often and became increasingly intense. At the same time, my blood pressure was measured and found to be normal. I sometimes prayed for it all to go away, but I did not take it seriously, thinking it was simply a sign of exhaustion.
But over time, everything got worse. I could no longer tilt my head down and forward because I would lose my balance, my vision would darken, and I would simply fall forward onto my face. I work at a school, and the final straw was when I became so ill during a lesson that I realized I was about to fall in front of the children and frighten them. I made my way along the wall to a chair, sat down, and could no longer teach the lesson. After that, I decided to undergo tests and find out what was happening to me.
I had an MRI of my brain, which revealed no tumor. Then they performed an ultrasound of the blood vessels in my brain and neck, and discovered atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid and right vertebral arteries. The plaque in the carotid artery was blocking 50% of the vessel, while the one in the vertebral artery was blocking 25%. By that time, I was also having problems with my blood pressure: it rose from 110/60 to 160/90.
The neurosurgeon said that, of course, there was no way to treat this other than through surgery. The surgery was not very complicated, but it cost between 68,000 and 82,000 hryvnias. I left realizing that I needed to talk to my Heavenly Father about all of this.
And I talked to God. I prayed to be rid of this problem. I felt better each time. Eight to ten months later, I had to undergo another routine medical examination and see the neurosurgeon. He began scolding me for having wasted so much time, saying that the plaques could not have disappeared, that they had surely grown even larger, and that my condition was critical—I only imagined that I felt better.
I suggested repeating all the tests. They performed another ultrasound of the blood vessels, and the doctor said that everything was normal. I asked again, “So there are no atherosclerotic plaques—the ones discovered a year ago during an examination in this very same room?” The doctor was surprised, and the nurse confirmed, “Look, her chart contains a diagnosis of these plaques, and there is even an image attached.”
The doctor looked at it and said in confusion, “Lie down; I’ll examine you again.” After performing another ultrasound, she confidently said that I had no plaques at all and wrote the diagnosis in large letters in my chart: “NO ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES!”
This is what our God the Father is like—powerful and loving! He corrects and heals every problem in our lives freely and painlessly! Glory to Him!
