Becca's Dream

Nothing short of Miraculous

Written in 2007 revised for web 6-15-09 by Nancy Tally

 

We would like to give praise and thanks to God for what He has done for Rebecca this past summer. We thank all who have prayed so faithfully for our family.  Encouraging us with cards, books, soft furry things, banners, visits, music and phone calls.

 

Everyone who saw Becca during the first week of June believed that Jesus was taking her home to be with him. 

Five hours into her twenty hours of seizure we had our first realization that she was paralyzed on her left side. 

When Becca regained consciousness it become apparent that she could not see. Then, the first week of testing began with each test coming back normal and Becca slipping further and further away from us. Finally the doctors agreed to an exploratory shunt surgery.  No big surprise to me the shunts were in full blown failure.  Even after the shunts were repaired Becca continued to become worse and worse. 

 

MRI’s were obtained and showed the third piece of the puzzle.  There had been seizure on top of shunt malfunction. Now we saw that an ischemic stroke covered the entire outer layer of the right hemisphere of the brain.

 

Boldly printed and high lighted on the top page of Becca’s chart was “no generic tranxene promotes seizures”. Every med time we asked each nurse were they giving name brand and not generic.  We were told each time that it was name brand as they took and dumped the generic down her throat.  Each day Becca was racked with worsening pain from what presented clinically as seizures and spasms but did not register on the EEG as anything. Multiple times a day she screamed in spasms until I saw that damnable little round generic pill sitting in her cup and screaming myself, snatched it out.  That was the beginning of her turning point.

It is difficult to watch your child curl into a ball and beat and tear at her own twisted arm because it hurts her so badly. I could not have made it through this time with out your prayers which were most definitely felt. I remember one night in particular screaming at God at the top of my voice. Frustrated that I could do nothing to help Becca lashing out at God in my pain and demanding to know why he was allowing her to suffer so? Hadn’t she been through enough?  He did remind me that he loved her more than I did and then made it very clear that he cared about my pain as well.

 

During my tirade I had been getting ready for bed and all of a sudden I felt as if I had been given a large dose of valium. As I fell into my bed I remembered that the Lord gives sleep to his beloved children.  As my head hit the pillow I thought WOW there must be a ton of people praying for me right now because I sure was loony tunes. I awoke refreshed the next morning and very aware that God had put me to bed the night before and restored my energy.

 

While Roland and I were born along on the prayers of so many of you it is Becca’s life that bears the greatest signs of prayer.  I would never want anyone to stop praying for her recovery.  I am grateful for the elders and pastors who came faithfully to pray for her. However, I do not believe that our prayers are what affected such a miraculous change in Becca.  As grown reasonable adults we are all too aware of what man can or can not do medically. We lack the trust in God or just the imagination to step out in faith and ask for what is needed.  We fear being disappointed or looking foolish for asking for so unrealistic a result. 

 

I believe it was the faithful FAITH FILLED prayers of our STARS that affected such a miraculous change.

Let me give you an example.

Becca was seizing on Disability Ministry Sun. 2006.  We let her participate because she was so adamant about doing so. 

During first service we had to pull her out of the choir loft not only seizing again but vomiting.  She was taken by ambulance to the ER. 

 

Now you need to understand going to the ER for seizures takes a minimum of six hours usually eight or more.  But to my amazement and excitement I realized that we were free to leave by eleven am.  I asked the staff if they could help us by hurrying the paperwork so we could get back to church and let her friends see that she was alright.  They graciously complied and we were back by 11:45 and went straight to the STARS room. I thought it would be a blessing for the STARS to see Becca and was somewhat puzzled that they were happy to see her but not surprised. However, there was much jaw dropping among the leadership.

 

I was informed that the STARS had upon arriving back in their room agreed that they should pray for Becca and several of them did.  Further more that Cheryl had dropped down on her knees and specifically asked God to totally heal Becca and bring her back that morning. One of our wonderful leaders who told me of this prayer also told me how their heart sank upon hearing it. They did not want to see such a prayer go unanswered as they believed it must. They told me how ashamed they felt upon realizing their own unbelief in the face of such unwavering trust in a loving God.  When I asked Cheryl if she was surprised to see Becca back that morning she calmly replied “Oh no! I knew she would be here we asked God to bring her.”

 

Many stars have prayed for her during her illness. Many have visited and prayed Tony, Joey, Courtney, John D.  I don’t think Tim ever left without laying his hand on her shoulder and praying for her healing.  Jon J., I have been told, has prayed every night for Becca’s recovery since the day he knew she was ill.   Jon J. who with unbelievable compassion and tears streaming down his face, came up to her wheel chair and said “This is not for our Becca; no she can not stay this way.  We pray to God. She will walk.”

 

In the eyes of man our STARS are disabled and haven’t much to offer. But I have never before seen such unwavering faith and such devoted love to God. Surely in God’s eyes we are the disabled ones.

 

Let the light of our STARS guide us back to God the Father through the blessed name of Jesus.  Let these blessed believers lead the way to a life of prayer that comes from unwavering trust in a God who loves us.

 

Update Becca walks and she runs! She has balance issues and visual and cognitive impairments that prevent her from compensating for

 things like bumps in the sidewalk. So she does need a hand to keep her upright when she goes fast.

Most of her vision is back. She still has depth perception issues and forgets life goes on to the left of her as well as to the right. She has basic gross motor in her left arm and hand but lacks fine motor skills.

 

But for someone who two years ago could not see and was totally paralyzed on the left side her recovery is; Nothing Short of Miraculous.