A Few Things

Firstly, read this blog:

http://chuckproctor.blogspot.com/

Start at the beginning when he is diagnosed with cancer, not too many posts in the blog so far, easy to read.

Secondly:

I was thinking about the past few months this morning. As you all know February was VERY hard for us for a variety of reasons. But one of the biggest issues was the deterioration of Carrie's back. the whole situation seemed rather hopeless and Carrie wasn't getting medicine, and that made things seem even more bleak.

Someone at church had the idea of having the Pastor's and Elder's come over and anoint Carrie with oil, lay hands on her and pray for us both.

Since that time the medicine situation has done a complete 180, the doctor trusts us to be very careful in using the medicine and will allow us to pick up some medication a few days earlier than normal for reasons like a vacation.

Since that time we have found Dr. Sumer who has started Carrie on a long term plan towards healing. He is administering shots in her back to ease the muscles and allow her body to heal itself. Once we are back from vacation she will start Physical Therapy with his Therapist which he believes will help her even more.

What is interesting is that we almost didn't go see Dr. Sumer. I had called for an appointment since someone in my life group said he was a very good doctor. They couldn't get us in for over two months. After things had turned around with the medication by late March and we were trying to see a surgeon I was considering canceling the appointment due to me being so tired of seeing unhelpful doctor after unhelpful doctor.

Carrie said we shouldn't, that she felt that God wanted us to see this doctor. I wasn't believing really, but I was trying to keep her spirits up so I said ok. The day before the appointment Carrie was nervous and tried to persuade me to cancel the appointment since she didn't want to go.

I reminded her of what she had said a month before and made her go, and on that day he did the first set of shots in her back and she has started feeling relief.

Almost as a stamp of certification we discovered that Dr. Sumer had recently converted to Christianity.

We don't know if Carrie's back will ever be "normal" or if she will ever be able to get off of all her medications, but we do see improvement, drastic improvement.

After Pastor Dave had prayed for Carrie he looked at her and I could tell that he wouldn't have been surprised if she had lept off the couch pain free, so deep is his faith. And while there was not some huge miracle performed on the spot you can retrace the steps leading back to prayer and anointing.

Pretty amazing.