12/02/2025
Thanksgiving Day may be over, but my thanks to God is not!
As I was shoveling today, I realized that I could not (Or at least should not!) have shoveled this just four years ago. And especially not this wet, heavy snow. But God!
In July 2021, JAMA, a major medical journal, featured a study on aortic root aneurysms, calling them "malignant."
In October 2021, after an echocardiogram, viewed by at least 4 doctors (including a department head at WVU), I was diagnosed with exactly this type of aneurysm.
As plans were being made for open heart surgery (using a heart & lung bypass machine), with a high risk of complications, including death, God supernaturally healed me!
My family medical provider announced it as a miracle & wrote a letter confirming that.
At best, four years ago, I likely would have passed out (It had happened multiple times over a decade.). My heart was recorded as being "stuck" in a rhythm of almost 200 beats a minute during a stress test that diagnosed SVT. An ablation surgical procedure to treat that failed & a monitor was surgically implanted into my chest the same day (It is still there, but not active.).
At worst, the aneurysm could have burst & I could have bled out in the driveway. At the time of diagnosis, I was not allowed to lift anything over the size of a gallon of milk & was put on a blood pressure pill (Not because I had high blood pressure, but because even an increase in pressure from something like stress could cause the aneurysm to burst causing almost immediate death.).
Again, BUT GOD!!!
He healed my heart. No SVT (That doctors could not fix, despite surgical procedures.). No heart murmur (Which led to the testing that led to the discovery of the deadly aneurysm.), and NO ANEURYSM!
"I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." Psalm 118:17
