Vickey (birdsgirl)'s Testimony

Vickey (birdsgirl)

I was acutally led to Jesus by my sister who was killed in an accident on the river on 7/23/68. She was 21 years old, leaving behind her husband, and 2 baby boys. It wasen't until 5/73 that I finally yeilded my life to Jesus, after a long, hard sturggle with my long awaited baby girl, who was born with motor damage C.P. It was neglect on the part of the Dr. who left me alone with just a nurses aide. The baby was ready to be born, and the Dr. left me, saying she wouldn't be there for several hours. She made her interance into this world 34 minutes later. She wasen't breathing, and there was no help for her. When the Dr. came in, he said, "I am ready to deliver," and the aide yelled to him that the baby was here and not breathing. She lay in the nursery at the hospitla for almost 7 weeks, without any help from specialists, just the staff Dr's who didn't know how to treat her. After a long battle with them, I finally got her to a good neurologist who diagnosed her with the problem. She cried day and night, with maybe one hour of sleep out of 24. My husband and I were at the end of our ropes. We were afraid for her, felt like zombies, due to lack of sleep, and also had 2 young boys to look after also. She was in the hospital many, many times for tests. Most of these tests were very painful. On one occasion, they overdosed her on anethesia, which gave her double pnemonia, and a 3 day stay in the hospital ended up being a 3 week stay. This was the one time that the tests offered no hope for her. The Dr. said "if" she ever walked at all it would be very late in life, and probably with the aid of cutches and braces. The diagnosis was a mass in the brain too deep to operate on. I was devistated! I was doomed to a life of watching my beautiful baby girl become totally dependent on her parents for all her needs. I was very angry at God for this, yet at the same time, I kept hearing my sister's words in the back of my head, (I thought), they were actually still very alive in my heart, and I would hear, "Vickey, this is the time you need to give your heart to Jesus, and let Him help you." I tried to ignore that, not wanting to give up all my fun, and worldy treasures, but God's timing is so perfect. He put me and my husband back in touch with old friends whom we haden't seen in several years. We were invited to church, so we went. Imediately, I felt that tugging in my heart. The next Sunday, I nearly ran to the altar, and gave my life to Jesus. Not far behind me came my husband, who also gave his heart to Jesus. I ask my pastor one night to pray for my baby girl, now 18 months old, and he did, then he said, "Vickey, you have got to stand on the promises of God!" That song has become very precious to me to this day, because that is what we did. The baby girl who was supposed to never walk, talk, and be totally dependent started walking on her oun at age 4. It was a pitiful sight to many, but a beautiful sight to us! She began to grow stronger each day. I could never get everything about her in here so, to make a long story short, she is a great woman of God, has her own home, has been around the world on missions telling others about Jesus' love. She drives, she works for her church, and now she is going to college to become a kindergarten teacher, in hopes of getting off of Social Security disability aide. Actually this just touches the surface of all that has taken place in our lives, not only with our daughter, but also our 4 sons as well. God has been so good to us, even through the hard times, and some of them were so hard I didn't think I would make it, but here I am, still going along, doing the best I can to serve my Lord and Savior. I pray that anyone who reads this gets a blessing, and if you are facing some real hard times, give them up, and give your heart to Jesus! There is no peace outside of that. Thank you for the opportunity to share just a wee bit of how a disabled child brought me and my husband to the loving arms of Jesus Christ!! God bless you Neville.......

Vickey (birdsgirl)