Running a few minutes late, I was hurrying on a timber path beside the pastor’s house and tripped on a loose board, falling heavily. I am a large person (well, very large!) and I fell awkwardly with my hand partially outstretched but with the little finger still curled into the palm of my hand. I took my entire weight on the side of my left hand and, as I lay there, I knew I had broken my wrist.
Let me explain. I have broken many bones in my body over my lifetime including having had more than six broken arms. My left arm, the one on which I fell, cannot be straightened after it was broken in a motorcycle accident during January 1968. Therefore I cannot ‘lock’ the elbow and, if I fall with my left hand outstretched, the arm ‘collapses’. This is hard to explain to someone who has full use of both arms but the rigidity of the arm as a support depends on being able to ‘lock’ the elbow. If the arm isn’t locked then the muscle alone must take any shock from a fall like this. In this particular case, the hand wasn’t even outstretched but still curled up, further complicating the effect of the fall.
I lay on the ground, unable to move, as the women from the meeting rushed out to help me. Lying there in shock, one of the ladies started to pray for healing and soon all the ladies were praying. I was praying too, praying that my wrist or hand was not broken because I knew how it would affect my work on the Internet (I receive up to 250 e-mails in a single day – many of which need urgent replies). My wife retrieved the arm sling we keep in the trunk of the car for emergencies (I was the one with the Senior First Aid certificate, I was the one who was supposed to be helping others!).
“I was able to see that my wrist had an unnatural ‘Z’ shape and my
little finger was protruding from my hand at nearly 90 degrees.”
little finger was protruding from my hand at nearly 90 degrees.”
A chair was produced from within the house and, as the shock finally eased, I was gently helped to the seat. At that time I was able to see that my wrist had an unnatural ‘Z’ shape and my little finger was protruding from my hand at nearly 90 degrees. The prognosis, even from my relatively untrained eye, was not good. Wrists are not supposed to have extra bends in them!
With my left arm gently cradled in the sling I was helped to our car and driven to the Gosford Hospital which is the largest local hospital in the area and the only one with a casualty (ER) section.
Upon entry, a triage nurse examined my wrist and stated, not surprisingly, that I had a radial shaft fracture. This meant that I had snapped both the bones in my forearm – the only logical explanation for the unnatural shape of the wrist. I sat down in the waiting room until a doctor could see me.
After an hour’s wait, a doctor examined my wrist. I had been talking to my wife and hadn’t realized myself until then that the unnatural shape in my wrist had gone! Amazingly, the wrist was now straight and normal.
“Broken wrists do not repair themselves within an hour – not without something miraculous happening!”
This was impossible. It wasn’t just my imagination but many others had seen the Z bend in my wrist – and even the triage nurse had not hesitated in declaring it broken (you don’t need a medical degree to see that a wrist should not be the shape that mine was). Bu
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I am a 52 year old woman with tourette syndrome. I also have had headaches for many years. Within the past month, they have become daily. I take excedrin migraine daily which diminishes the pain. I do not believe that God would have me settle for this. Interestingly enough, I teach a women's Bible study on physical and spiritual wellness. We emphasize speaking positive things into our lives through God's Word. I am open to a supernatural healing and have prayed for that.
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