While stationed at Offut Air force base in Nebraska, my husband's Mom and Dad came for a visit. We wanted to show them the underground computer rooms (the ones you see all the time in the movies), but you had to be at least 13 years old before they would allow you to tour the facilities. Michael was now 13 years old but, my youngest child Michelle was only 8 years old
Michelle was playing with our neighbors child as she often did, so
I asked her Mom if she would keep an eye on Michelle while we were gone. We lived on Base so we would not be away very long. My neighbor did not hesitate and quickly agreed to take care of her until we got back, then she told me she had just been to the doctors and they had found a tumor in her womb the size of a grapefruit. She explained her husband was getting out of the service so she had decided to get a physical while he was still in the Air Force. I asked if they knew whether or not it was benign and she said they didn't know, they were going to remove it and then do a biopsy and she said if it was cancer they would have to do a hysterectomy. They were a young couple and she was upset because they wanted to have more children so she asked me to pray for her. I never knew her family to attend church but, of course I said I would.
I have seen so many miracles given to people and they are not even aware of it so I prayed "Lord please heal Donna, you made her and you can remake her but please let her know she has had a miracle."
Donna's husband came over the evening of the day they operated to let us know how things had progressed. I could tell by the grave look in his eyes that all was not well. He told us that the doctor had come out of the operating room and told him it didn't look good.
They had sent the tumor to their laboratory and were waiting for confirmation of the cancer before doing the hysterectomy. Donna was still on the operating table awaiting the results. Word came back from the Lab saying it wasn't cancer. The doctor had several other doctors look at the tumor and all said cancer. The doctor thought there had been something wrong with the diagnose from the Lab but without the confirmation he could not do the hysterectomy. He told her husband he was going to send the tumor to Creighton University for them to run it through their Lab,
(Creighton is one of the finest teaching medical universities and was close by). He said he would sew Donna up but that they would have to go back in within a day or two.
The next couple of days were rough for us as we awaited the results from Creighton. Donna's husband came over to tell us that Creighton had also said they had not found any cancer but they had never seen a tumor like this that was not cancer so they were sending the tumor to Washington D. C. They thought it might be a new strain of cancer. More waiting.
Suddenly I remembered how I had prayed for her. I hurried to the hospital, (they had kept her in the hospital awaiting the results from DC) I gave her a big hug and told her she had been healed. She started to tell me about waiting for the results from DC and I told her I knew, her husband had told me, and then I told her how worried I was about her until I remembered how I had prayed for her.
Donna was released, womb intact, a few days later when Washington confirmed she did not have cancer. And Donna knew that God had sent her a miracle.
Our God is an awesome God, His mercy knows no bounds
Mary E. Cole
Music: Awesome God
