May 25, 2019
Miracles!
I haven’t been writing for my blog often. I’ve been very busy lately! (And yes, the picture is an old one, like 4 years ago, but it’s one of my favorites of Becca & Anastasia.)
This past week was totally amazing in how God just orchestrated things to work out for good.
If you’ve been reading, you probably know my little sister has been going through some rough medical challenges. Read this if you don’t know about it. (Okay, she’s always going to be “my little sister” to me, even though she’s a very competent adult.) On Wednesday, my Mom texted me at work (she was playing taxi for Becca) with awesome news!
God had closed up one of Becca’s varicose veins! But she was already prepped for surgery and had prepaid for it so the Doctor said they’d do the worst vein on the other leg. That was so amazing! Actually, they scared her to death before telling her it was good news. The nurse with the Doppler says “stop talking” and moves the Doppler around with a serious face. Becca’s heart jumped into her throat. Then she sets the wand down. “Let me get the Doctor.” And then Becca had to find her calm place and bite her tongue as they both moved the Doppler stuff around and made comments like “I see it” and “yes, that’s odd.” Becca said finally the nurse says to the Doctor, “shall I tell her, or do I?” and then they told her it was gone. They offered, since she was already prepped, to just start in on the other leg (the worst, largest vein) so of course, Becca said yes.
The second miracle happened two days later. Anastasia has been severely allergic to eggs all her life. Like so allergic she needs an EpiPen and can’t touch anything that touched eggs. We have chickens, so you’d think our house was a definite no-no, but we are very diligent about keeping her away from our eggs and washing everything (hands, countertops, etc) to keep any contaminates from her. And we bake cookies, breads, ice cream, and cupcakes without eggs anytime she’s over. She’s really good about asking if it has eggs in it. (Louis picked up a cookie snack from Aldis when she was shopping with us & she asked, “does it have eggs?” so we put it back and Christina made eggless cookies instead.)
Anyway, so much for backstory… at the end of school, the school gives back all medications to the parents. Normally, that’s on the last day, but they almost gave Anastasia’s EpiPen back on Thursday instead. Her Dad wisely didn’t take it; he told them her Mom would get it on Friday.
So her EpiPen was at school for the party day.
And that was when she needed it. She misunderstood somehow and thought the cupcakes were eggless, so she ate one and two bites into it, her body rejected it and it ended with her in anaphylactic shock. Although she had to go to the hospital, my brave 5-year-old niece recovered fine. Becca raced from work to get to her. The paramedics let Becca drive her to the hospital and she was admitted with a “severe level 5 reaction” so the doctors had to observe her in case her reaction returned as the medicine wore off. (It didn’t.) The Doctor was extremely helpful and handed Becca his card, which had John 3:16 written on it!
God lined everything up so that Anastasia would have her medicine and get just the right care.
Our family has felt the love of God and amazing miracles in the prayers, support, and love from all of you! Please continue to keep Becca in your prayers! I just had to pass along how awesome our week had been in the way God had been letting Becca feel His presence through these challenging moments.
God always has our best. We give Him our lives with all of our stuff and He blesses us with His constant love and care. He shows us love and grace and we are the hands, feet, and arms of Jesus on Earth. Sometimes we are the givers and sometimes receivers. And sometimes God shocks everyone with something totally unexpected like healing something in our bodies!
Thank you God, for Your warm arms gathering my little sister and her baby in Your tender care!
Thanks for reading!
Type at you later…
~Nancy Tart