As you can see, the last 3 years have been very difficult for our family. We have watched Jeff suffer so greatly. I have spent most of the last 3 years standing by a hospital bed, or sitting in a surgical waiting room for one of the 14 surgeries he has had. I have received a few calls from the hospital in the middle of the night telling me that Jeff had coded and was now in ICU. The pain Jeff has suffered and the pain I feel as his mom has been the worst kind of pain any parent could ever feel. I am here today to tell you that Jeff is alive and I am still standing. We are survivors and it is all because of Jesus.
Jeff has been in and out of the hospital for the past 9 years. The last 3 years being the most challenging. Over the past 3 years, I (we) have praised our way thru the storm. I would leave the ICU or leave his bedside in the care of his dad and go to church. The music would begin and the hands would go up and I praised harder than I have ever praised and worshipped in my life. I would try and sing, but all that came out was groanings and pain. I would end up doubling over from the pain that was coming forth out of me. Crying, groanings and pain was something. my church family, I guess came to expect from me. No matter what, I praised God. Before I left each and every church service, I was smiling again and felt the peace and strength of God on me. I had the endurance to keep going from praising God and from the prayers of Gods people,
God has been there by Jeffs bedside. Over and over again God has raised him up. At times when Jeff coded he was not being monitored and a nurses timing was perfect as she would walk into his room only to see he was not breathing.
Jeff had a hole where infection had eaten the femoural artery and God kept him. He was given antibiotics that dropped his platlet count dangerously low and the hospital caught it. A surgeon almost cut into the femoural artery as it was exposed. God stopped him from cutting into it. The hand of God has repeatedly been on the hand of surgeons, lung specialist and various other Dr's. God's miracles have been seen over and over again. Jeff medically speaking should not be here with us today but Jeff is still with us and very much alive.
I believe that when the praises go up, the Glory of GOD comes down. I also believe that the battles are won when our hands our in the air. There have been times that I reached my breaking point that I just could not pray or praise and hardly had the strength to walk into the hospital one more times. It has been at those times that past prayers and the prayers of the saints have kept us. It is the prayers of Gods people that are keeping us when we can't pray. It is your prayers that is keeping us going and keeping us strong and your prayers that are keeping Jeff alive. For that I thank each and every one of you. I have my son today because of your prayers. I appreciate the prayers and support.
God is still a miracle working God. Jeff is truly a miracle!
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