The healing power of prayer saved my life

In February 2001, I experienced postmenopausal bleeding. In March, a D&C was performed, and in April a fibroid tumor, the size of a four-month fetus, was removed and a partial hysterectomy was performed. The final pathology showed Leiomyoarcoma, a rare cancer, seen in one to two percent of cancer patients. It can also be quite aggressive and reappears six to eight months after the cancerous area is removed. The gynecological oncologist and the radiation oncologist both recommended another operation to remove my cervix, and to peel part of the intestine wall up and surrounding it with fatty tissue for protection from radiation. This would be followed by five weeks of radiation treatment. The last treatment would consist of forty hours in the hospital with a rod up through the vagina to the area to be treated. It sounded like a torture chamber!

When I was presented with the prospect of another operation, I was thoroughly enraged. The doctors told me that even after the second operation and the radiation, there was a fifty-fifty chance the cancer would return. I thought hard about the fifty-fifty prediction of a successful outcome and whether I wanted to put my body through another operation with an uncertain out come. I was weighing the possibility of dying with dignity instead of being cut up again and then burned. I felt so angry that I felt like picking a fight with someone. Then I turned my anger into a positive force. I evoked the healing power of prayer on many levels. Through the healing power of prayer I visualized going into my body and cleaning up everything that I saw. I also said an affirmation to release and bless all those with whom I had been angry or had caused me pain in the past and in the present.

The operation was successful beyond my wildest expectations. The proactive steps I took before the operation played a major role in its success. They also played a psychological role by channeling my emotions into positive actions and the steps helped me take control of my situation.

 

 

 

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