Hi Michelle,
Sorry it has taken a couple days to get back to you.... Life is full of surprises!
So, back in 1998 I was 17. I went on a ride at the fair, the Starship 2000 (if you know which one that is). While I was on it, my tumor burst. We didn't know it existed at that point so we thought it was just my ear drum. After a couple weeks my parents finally agreed that it was time to see a doctor. She said it was not the ear drum, but maybe a cyst, and recommended I see an ENT. The Dr put me on antibiotics and my "cyst" grew. They decided they would do a CT scan and then surgically remove it.. My Mom wasn't too excited about this Dr just removing it, so she took me up to her surgeoun in Seattle. My Mom had skin cancer on her lip a couple years prior and he had done an amazing reconstructive job.
So, we went to see Dr. Clarke. They did all of their tests and decided it was a tumor but only 1% chance of it being cancerous.They removed my whole saliva gland and when I got the 100+ stitches out they told me it was cancerous. I think I was in shock because at that time my response was "Where do I go from here?" The Dr's had already arranged through the University of Washington in Seattle that I would be starting my radiation treatments. Dr Clarke retired about 6 months after my surgery! My radiation treatments are only done in two places world wide, Seattle WA and Detroit. My last day of radiation treatments was 12-31-98.. I started '99 off with a clean slate!
The tumor in my saliva gland put a lot of pressure on my Rt. Eustachian tube. I lost almost all hearing in my right ear. While in Germany at our PWOC retreat 11-08, we were asked to "give up" something we felt was hindering us from giving ourselves completely to Him. I wrote down something that I wanted, but God had other plans! I could feel the pull, but I kept telling myself that I I wasn't done grieving what had happened. I still felt the self-pity. I survived cancer, but why me? I know after 10 years I should have been more emotionally healed, but I was not. So, all of us ladies at the retreat wrote down our "give up" and laid them at the cross. The next song we sung was "I am FREE!" During this song I started to hear voices and music in my right ear! I hadn't heard out of that ear for 10 years! It was a miracle! I have been healed! Physically and Emotionally! After the song I realized God gave me my hearing 10 years to the day after I was diagnosed with cancer! 11-05-98
I was diagnosed and on 11-05-08 my hearing returned! A Miracle from God!
I hope this helps all of you heal! If you have questions I am more than happy to answer ;)
Praying for you guys!
Colleen
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Jean Miller, a woman from New Life, and one who had faithfully encouarged me and prayed for me whenever she saw me over these past four and half years sent this prayer:
I am so sorry your dad is struggling. I pray for him a new wave of the Father's Love for him. I ask you Father to show him that he is so important to you. Lord I ask that you would strengthen his family in every avenue that they face discouragement you will give them new courage. I ask you Lord that her father will renew his mind with what you have for him. Lord, in the Word it says we have the mind of Christ. Doubt and unbelief you have no place here. I ask you for a new place to open up in his heart for renewed FAITH. Renewed HOPE. Lord the enemy wants to steal from him, but we know what is happening. I ask that you will hold his hands up Lord when they are weak. Lord, allow him to see that your WORD is true. As I pray for him the Lord is reminding me that as the storms come, and the flood comes in, Our Lord raises a standard to hold back. WE ask that you hold back the storms power Lord, the storm of Cancer that tries to take control. Hold it back. We curse cancer and the very name of cancer MUST bow to the name of JESUS. It must BOW, Every name in heaven and earth will bow to the name of Jesus, We know that cancer was not of you Lord. WE ask your healing hand to touch him. Give him dreams and visions of your glory, Oh Lord. Give him all that he needs. Thank you Lord, that your word says that it accomplishes that what it sent it out to do. Thank you Lord that you care about what concerns us. Thank you Lord that not one is least in your kingdom. NOT one.
Lord, this man of God is just as great in the Kingdom ,and you are in a good mood and you are ready to preform your word. I praise you Lord
for what you will be doing in this family. Blessing you and your family.
Can't think of anyone at this moment but I saw something on the 700 club about a man paralized never to ever walk again and only to be bound to a wheelchair his whole life according to the doctors. He is walking and doing everything they said was impossible. I will try to find the link. God is able in the worst of the situations. We must believe. It is a battle but one worth fighting. Bless you.
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Our Father, Abba, who is in heaven....HOLY is your name, Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in Bill's life as it is in heaven. Now I know that this heaven, the place where you live, Abba, is beautiful and without sickness and your Son, my Lord, taught me to pray Your kingdom come...so I pray King of heaven and earth...come now take up residence in Bill's body.....you who according to Psalm 103 says you heal us of ALL our diseases.....come!!!! heal this, your son of cancer COMPLETELY!!!! I take up my place as one who has all the favor of my Dad and ask according to John, when Jesus said "Ask anything of the Father in My name and it will be given to you that your joy may be made full", that Bill be healed of cancer but more importantly that his heart be healed of blindness....have mercy on him O Son of David!!! Open the eyes of his heart that he see Christ and him crucified out of love for him. In the name of Jesus I bind the spirit of unbelief and loose on him the spirit of belief!!! I decree, "Eyes be opened.....eyes be opened.....eyes be opened in the name of Jesus!" Amen
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