To those who wonder why they don’t hear or see God’s miracles happening … well, here’s a story that proves He’s still at work. This is from a buddy of mine from college, Reid. Reid posted this on facebook not too long ago and many of us think it’s too amazing not to share.
So here it is, the amazing miracle story of Reid, Stephanie and their daughter Hayli …
Well our world was rocked on December 11. We perhaps had gotten the worst news of our lives. Nothing prepares a parent to hear anything like this.
We were scheduled for a regular routine visit to the hospital for Hayli to have tubes put in her ears. She hadn’t had many ear infections but she did have fluid in her ears for roughly 4 months straight. They said we would only be there a couple of hours but it was more like 6. We wondered why the surgery and testing was taking so long. Since Hayli had fluid on her ears for so long they decided that while she was still asleep they would do some hearing testing since they couldn’t before because of the fluid.
The Audiologist came in with another doctor and sat us down and explained what was going on. She told us that Hayli had significant hearing loss in one ear and moderate in another and one of the tests showed nerve damage. Nerve damage is permanent. She talked about the possibility of Hayli going deaf and started to instruct us on all the things we would need to do to be ready. (hearing aids, hearing impaired school, and so on). How does a parent take all of that in? A few days later we had a follow visit with Hayli’s ENT and he confirmed all of the tests. She had hearing loss. So, we proceeded to do all of the things the Audiologist suggested.
Stephanie and I have an awesome faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. We posted prayer requests on facebook. We asked people we saw at work to pray for our girl. We decided that 1 week after we found out the news we would visit our Intercessory Prayer Team from church and have them pray over Hayli and annoint her ears with oil. It was awesome. I bet some of you can still remember some of my status updates. I made a comment about having an awesome night of prayer. That was it. Once we were all done, man the room was electric. The team was convinced that the Lord did what He does best and she would not have to worry about anything and either would mom or dad. I went on to say “so the schedule will be that on the 20th of January Hayli will be in hearing aids.” Barb said no she won’t. She won’t need them. Hayli can hear fine.
On December 19th, the day after we went to see the Prayer Team, we went back to hospital this time to rule out any syndromes that might have caused her hearing loss. Hayli took a CT Scan, an echo-cardiogram and they drew blood to test her kidney function and thyroid. Then on the 29th, we visited the Pediatrician Ophthalmologist to rule out anything wrong with her eyes that could cause hearing loss. Well since then, the eye exam went great. Hayli is seeing fine and her eyes are functioning well as they should. The CT scan came back normal. We haven’t heard anything on the echo or blood work but we don’t need to at this point.
On December 31st, we were then headed back to the hospital to have Hayli’s ear molds taken for her hearing aids. Stephanie mentioned to the Audiologist, the same one from the 11th, that we thought Hayli’s hearing was actually improving. Of course, she was convinced that was impossible since it was nerve damage that has caused it which again is irreversible. The doctor decided that she would do some testing before we took impressions. Stephanie got in the sound booth with Hayli and a speech therapist. I was in the machine room with the Audiologist. She began the testing and as she started getting some results she would look back at me and say, “she is hearing fine.” She would show me why she thought that. She showed me Hayli’s first tests and these news graphs were completely different. She was speechless. She couldn’t say anything but “I can’t give you any medical or scientific reasoning why this is happening. She can hear fine and is hearing better than most kids her age.” She said we have to do another test. We went into the booth and they did a bone conduction test where they look at the nerve itself and again she was marveled to find no nerve damage. Then we moved from there back to the room and they did one more test. It was an AOE which is what most pediatricians do in their offices for all kids. This test was fine, too. The doctor teared up. Stephanie took the opportunity to witness by sharing the story of Hayli being prayed over and annointed with oil. The doctor said that was it then. It is the only other explanation she said. That Friday, January 3rd, our ENT called late that night and told us he confirmed the tests, the hearing loss and nerve damage was gone and again he didn’t know what to say. Stephanie again shared with him that Hayli was prayed over. He said, “make sure you go and tell those people thank you.”
The greatest gift anyone could ever receive is a miracle. Hayli received one. That is enough for me in this lifetime. I already believed that God can and does make miracles. There is something though about being a part of one. How can anyone deny that there is a God? I will never know why they think that. I can testify that there is a God and he is ALIVE AND WELL in the Spirit.
To that I give you the Miracle.
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