By Ramona Clayton
January 10, 2009, my husband and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with our wonderful family. We never dreamed it could be our last. June 3 started out a very leisurely morning with me ironing and my husband taking shirts out of a closet to give away. I found him unconscious on the floor.
I called 911 and in a couple of minutes he was dead. I started my feeble CPR because I’ve always heard something is better than nothing. The Lord used me to bring him back to life. The doctor felt it was a reaction to some prescribed medication and we could go home in two days. Nine-forty that night, he coded again. At this point, he was put on a respirator. A
heart cath concluded he had five blockages. He was in intensive care and things looked very bad. I asked the doctor if he was going to live. He said “Lady your husband has died twice today and he is alive. I don’t think the Lord is through with him.” Heart surgery, pulmonary problems and a blood clot kept him in the hospital for five weeks. A wonderful team of Christian doctors and nurses treated all of these. We were home and our son told us he had a story to tell us but everything was all right. He said, “About the exact time you found Dad on the floor I was getting a physical. The chest x-ray showed I probably had cancer of the lungs. I kept this to myself because I didn’t want to add to your problems. I only confided in dad’s pulmonary doctor, whom agreed it looked very bad. When I returned home, I confided in my wife. She called in the prayer warriors.. When they prayed for me, I felt a heat go through my body. The biopsy was performed and the surgeon said he was ninety percent sure it was cancer. The report came back showing I did not have cancer. The spots disappeared.” We know whatever it was the Lord removed it. So I am thankful I still have a husband and son. I hope as a helpmate and a mother, to fulfill what God left them here for. Storms come in our life and if they have a good ending or bad ending, it sure helps to have the Lord by your side.
