In November of 2003, the unthinkable happened to me and my family. At 18 years old, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, in not just one ovary, but both. I was going through a rough time in my life. A good friend had JUST committed suicide DAYS before I found out, I was drinking heavily and turning into an all around heavy partier. It was joked that I was the perfect example of the “preacher’s daughter”. My dad was a preacher in a Southern Gospel group and I was a wild child.
Instead of turning to God like I should have, I instead turned to alcohol and would drown my sorrows in a fifth of whiskey. I didn’t want to accept my condition; I didn’t want to accept the doctors telling me that if we didn’t do something soon that my cancer would spread.
My mother, in desperation, turned her head from my drinking and destructive behavior. Not my dad though, he prayed for me everyday.
The day finally came that I could no longer ignore what was going on in my body, during one of my many hospital visits, the doctor informed me, at 18 years old, I would have to have a full hysterectomy. I couldn’t believe it… I had just turned 18 and they were telling me that I would NEVER be able to have kids, EVER. The doctors kept insisting that this was the only way. I went home – crushed. I couldn’t bear the thought of telling my parents I would never give them grandkids.
When I told my dad the news, he refused to accept it. Right then and there he prayed with me. I knew what God could do, I knew he could cure me, I just knew that I wasn’t living right so he had NO reason to do so… and for some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to repent, drinking was my way out of reality. My dad didn’t stop there though. Everywhere he traveled he requested prayer for my FULL healing. All over the US I had people praying for me. Everyday, cards and letters would come to the house; lots of them. I didn’t doubt the power of God to heal me; I just didn’t see myself as worthy enough.
It was about two months after I was first diagnosed that I went back to my doctor to get the results of my latest tests. When I arrived, the doctor met me in the waiting area and pulling me back into her office excitedly; like a little kid excited about a new toy. She sat me down and pulled out her laptop to show me pictures of the ultrasounds I had over the last couple of months. I cringed seeing this disease in MY BODY.
Well, she was talking away, but I couldn’t hear a word she said. All I could see and focus on was this disease that was about take away part of my life; if not all of it. Finally I told her, “fine, I’ll do it, I’ll get the hysterectomy”. She looked bewildered and then asked, “Kristy, didn’t you hear a word I said?” I informed her, no I hadn’t. Then she repeated slowly what she had been saying. “Sometimes in the medical field Kristy, doctors have no explanation as to why things happen… we just have to sum it up to miracles, plain and simple, it’s just a miracle”.
I was confused badly at this point. “What are you talking about” I finally asked her. ”Kristy, what I’m trying to say is… the test we did before this one… LAST week, your body was infested, that’s the only way to describe it, your reproductive organs were INFESTED with cancer. Kristy, no matter how hard we look this time, no matter where we looked… there’s not a trace of cancer to be found – ANYWHERE.”
The power of prayer is a REALLY amazing thing.
Thank You For letting me share this with you… I believe God gave me and my family this experience to share with others, to show that no matter where you are, what you’ve done, if you turn to Him, He WILL heal you.
RoCkin x ShaWtii@aol.com