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March 27, 2000 I was an agnostic when an unexplainable occurrence happened to me. I was home with an I.V. line in my chest so that I could administer antibiotics (after a major infection for which I was hospitalized.) I had Trigeminal Neuralgia, a severe facial pain disorder, for which many choose suicide as the cure. I was going to cut the I.V. line in a suicide attempt. First I needed to check that the line was still in the vessel. To do this I had to pull back liquid into the syringe. If it was red, it was in the vessel, clear, it had become dislodged. Mine was pale pink. The E.R. doctor could not explain it. The line could not have been in both, the vessel and outside it. By the next morning, when I went to see my surgeon and had backed off from my suicidal intentions, the liquid was red and clearly in the vessel. Her only explanation was “Gremlins.” There is no medical explanation. If the line, for instance, had two holes, one leading to the vessel and one outside, the liquid would have remained pink. (I was Jewish in my faith (very slightly, by birth, not belief.) and converted to Christianity 3 years ago.) A year and a half ago, I was again prepared to kill myself, due to my facial pain. I had a bottle of pills in my hand when I felt compelled to do a self-hypnosis. I did not know why but I came into the force I felt. In trance, the words came into my mind that my brain had forgotten that my trigeminal nerve had been burned, cut, and electrocuted. My brain needed to be reminded of that. This is not the known way to approach pain via hypnosis. It is normally done by addressing the pained area/inducing psychogenic anesthesia. Nonetheless, when I came up from trance 20 minutes later, my pain was completely and totally gone. My neurosurgeon, neurologist, reconstructive surgeon, and the head of the hypnotherapy clinic at a major university hospital have all agreed that the only explanation is that I was given a miracle. As one said, "God touched her." I believe this occurred so that I could put forward a different way of approaching severe pain through a noninvasive process. I believe miracles occur for this reason. God wants us to learn from them and spread that information. I have remained pain free since then, something that never happened after 11 brain surgeries. What happened to me is a fact that cannot be explained, nor explained away. Miracles do happen, whether you are a 'believer' or not. I sincerely believe God gives many miracles every day. It is only the fact that we are taught that only crazy people talk about things like this that the Truth of God's presence in the world is not shared in the way that will show the reality of His Presence and Love. Thank you for taking the time to read
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