This is a powerful song!!
Be Blessed,
Anna Marie
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Latest News:Emergency Spinal Chord Neuro Surgery
Here is the e-mail I sent to everybody in my contacts. I know it has been FOREVER since I/we have written and now that I am finally out of the hospital I can get on the blog. I have internet but not on my laptop so I can't put up the Joshua devotional yet. But here is what God has done in the last week and a half. If you already got the e-mail and didn't save it and watned to here you go. Pass it on so that others CAN be blessed!!!! If you have any questions post a comment and I will check this as often as I can.
GOD IS AWESOME!!!!! This past March I fell over Easter weekend and hit my tail bone and spine and went numb from waist down. I have been numb since then. I started treating with my Chiropractor when I came home and the numbness left my legs but was still in my feet. And my mothers insurance ran out at the end of April so I stopped going to the Chiropractor to see how I would do. The numbness started immediately working its way back up my legs. So then I went to a Patricia King Conference with my friend and got prayed for by her and my numbness got worse. I started treating with the Chiropractor again and the numbness STARTED going back down my legs but then I stopped progressing. It started coming back up my legs and starting to work its way up the rest of my body. I was very quickly loosing my ability to walk and was getting weaker everyday and started falling and um...so our Chiropractor asked for a 2ND opinion. We came down to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh on the 30Th of June for my very first appointment which was the first day of me being on my dads insurance for a normal doctors appointment with a Neurologist. After she evaluated me for about an hour and a half, she brought in the doctor over her to evaluate me for another hour. They decided to admit me for a STAT MRI which I was only supposed to wait an hour. In the mean time I was sent to the Emergency room to get an IV so that they could put 1,000 mg. of Prednisone in me to decrease the swelling on my spinal chord. When I finally got into the MRI, after waiting 2 hours, in ER a 1 hour MRI turned into a 4 hour MRI and about 9:30 my parents were talking to a Neurosurgeon. So we find out as soon as i get out of the MRI's that I have had a lesion in my spine for a long time and they do not know what it is yet and they are still testing it. They are checking to see if it is a low grade tumor. The lesion was crushing my spinal chord and with in 12 hours I would have been paralyzed. I went into Emergency surgery that night, and was out of recovery around 3am Tuesday morning. I was transferred to a in house therapy at Children's Institute in Pittsburgh. I got out on Tueday, July 8th, 2008. I HOME!!!!! God has used this whole experience for his glory from the time that I got out. I had a room mate that had gotten surgery a couple days before me and was in a lot of pain. God laid it on my heart to pray for her and when I did a peace came in the room. Now I was still on morphine and something else more potent than morphine. Then she left and another girl came ICU and she was in a lot of pain and was crying for about an hour because of the IVs that she had. I got out of bed and went and laid hands on her and she quieted down and fell asleep. As we have shared about the Lord and how he has provided from the insurance to me not eating that day to be ready for the surgery that we didn't know that we were going to have, to witnessing to nurses, families, and other staff members. And the time that we got to spend with our own family that was in the hospital getting chemo at that time, God even allowed us to tell another family about the revival in Lakeland FL that didn't know that it was going on so that they can get online and watch it and be blessed. WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD!!!! He gave us enough of emergency to put us where we are at, so that he could love all these people through us. How GREAT is the love of our GOD!!!! Our faith and love has been increased GREATLY through this incredible experience. Our family has pulled together even closer through this all. It has even been a blessing as people in our church have been calling and taking care of us as far as calling in and checking up on us and sending us food. We are SOOO Blessed!!!! So send this testimony on to encourage someone else. Hopefully this blesses you and everyone who reads it.
Thank You ALL for you prayers it helped me through. I love you ALL. Be Blessed!!!! Have A Jeuss Filled Day!!!!
Ruthie Trimarchi
GOD IS AWESOME!!!!! This past March I fell over Easter weekend and hit my tail bone and spine and went numb from waist down. I have been numb since then. I started treating with my Chiropractor when I came home and the numbness left my legs but was still in my feet. And my mothers insurance ran out at the end of April so I stopped going to the Chiropractor to see how I would do. The numbness started immediately working its way back up my legs. So then I went to a Patricia King Conference with my friend and got prayed for by her and my numbness got worse. I started treating with the Chiropractor again and the numbness STARTED going back down my legs but then I stopped progressing. It started coming back up my legs and starting to work its way up the rest of my body. I was very quickly loosing my ability to walk and was getting weaker everyday and started falling and um...so our Chiropractor asked for a 2ND opinion. We came down to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh on the 30Th of June for my very first appointment which was the first day of me being on my dads insurance for a normal doctors appointment with a Neurologist. After she evaluated me for about an hour and a half, she brought in the doctor over her to evaluate me for another hour. They decided to admit me for a STAT MRI which I was only supposed to wait an hour. In the mean time I was sent to the Emergency room to get an IV so that they could put 1,000 mg. of Prednisone in me to decrease the swelling on my spinal chord. When I finally got into the MRI, after waiting 2 hours, in ER a 1 hour MRI turned into a 4 hour MRI and about 9:30 my parents were talking to a Neurosurgeon. So we find out as soon as i get out of the MRI's that I have had a lesion in my spine for a long time and they do not know what it is yet and they are still testing it. They are checking to see if it is a low grade tumor. The lesion was crushing my spinal chord and with in 12 hours I would have been paralyzed. I went into Emergency surgery that night, and was out of recovery around 3am Tuesday morning. I was transferred to a in house therapy at Children's Institute in Pittsburgh. I got out on Tueday, July 8th, 2008. I HOME!!!!! God has used this whole experience for his glory from the time that I got out. I had a room mate that had gotten surgery a couple days before me and was in a lot of pain. God laid it on my heart to pray for her and when I did a peace came in the room. Now I was still on morphine and something else more potent than morphine. Then she left and another girl came ICU and she was in a lot of pain and was crying for about an hour because of the IVs that she had. I got out of bed and went and laid hands on her and she quieted down and fell asleep. As we have shared about the Lord and how he has provided from the insurance to me not eating that day to be ready for the surgery that we didn't know that we were going to have, to witnessing to nurses, families, and other staff members. And the time that we got to spend with our own family that was in the hospital getting chemo at that time, God even allowed us to tell another family about the revival in Lakeland FL that didn't know that it was going on so that they can get online and watch it and be blessed. WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD!!!! He gave us enough of emergency to put us where we are at, so that he could love all these people through us. How GREAT is the love of our GOD!!!! Our faith and love has been increased GREATLY through this incredible experience. Our family has pulled together even closer through this all. It has even been a blessing as people in our church have been calling and taking care of us as far as calling in and checking up on us and sending us food. We are SOOO Blessed!!!! So send this testimony on to encourage someone else. Hopefully this blesses you and everyone who reads it.
Thank You ALL for you prayers it helped me through. I love you ALL. Be Blessed!!!! Have A Jeuss Filled Day!!!!
Ruthie Trimarchi
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