by Anne Harrell

Created on: June 13, 2008

God's Comfort in Midst of Your Problem

Twenty-two years ago, Mark's and my oldest daughter Cyndy, had her very first seizure when she was merely six months old. It had happen in the predawn hours of the spring May morning when Cyndy woke my husband and me screaming at the tops of her lungs. At first, Mark and I thought she was wet and hungry where she wanted to be changed and fed. No matter what we did to try, stopping her from crying worked. We thought when we had changed her diaper and gave her a bottle, she would calm down where she would go back to sleep. When she took the bottle, she took a couple sucks from the bottle and started screaming again at the top of her lungs. Finally, after a few moments she had stopped crying, and immediately went stiff on us, before she went limp as a rag doll showing signs of having trouble breathing.

When we realized that, something was seriously wrong with her we called the doctor and for the ambulance praying that the ambulance would arrive before Cyndy would die. We begun praying that the Lord would put His protective hands around her and help her through the crisis that she was in.

When the ambulance arrived the paramedics, told us they were not sure if we had called them in time to keep her from dying. Cyndy was in critical condition. When the medics went rushing out of the apartment with Cyndy they were doing CPR on her trying to bring her back.

When the CPR was not getting any leave, way the medics decided to stop by the nearest hospital before transferring her to the Children's Hospital in Norfolk.
Being told that Cyndy was probably dead, I cried out to the Lord, the one that could heal all aliments, the One that knows our deepest thoughts and hears our most desperate prayers the One that has control over life and death...TO PLEASE SAVE MY BABY. As we were turning the conner at Chesapeake General, calmness beyond my understanding came over me soon after being told that the paramedics thought they had lost Cyndy. As I screamed out, I could feel arms going around me, holding me tightlyyet there were no arms around me. I knew then that My Lord was holding me tightly and that Cyndy would pull through this emergency.

Once in the emergency room at Chesapeake General, the doctors were able to bring Cyndy, back around and had placed her on a ventilator to help her breathe. She was transferred after being stabilized to the ICU unit of the Children's Hospital for further care. With in a few hours of her being put on the ventilator the doctors were able to pull Cyndy off the ventilator and upgrade her from critical to serious but stable, and were able to transfer her to the progressive care unit. We found out that she had a nasty ear infection that had caused her to have a high fever.

Unfortunately, that was not the last time Cyndy seizured. We found out when she was nine months old that she had a small brain that caused her to seizure. This was her first spell and narrow escape of going to be with the Lord. Cyndy had several very narrow escapes where the Lord had heard our prayers and sustained her life. She lived to be eleven years of age before the Lord did call Cyndy home with Him.

Even in the middle of Cyndy's crises, the Lord has heard our prayers and has comforted us through some of our darkest hours. We are told that the Lord will never give us more then we can handle. Christ promises us that He will walk through the valley shadow of death with us and He will comfort us in our darkest hours. I know for a fact that if I did not have Christ I would not find comfort in the middle of crises without God. Phil. 4:13 (KJV) "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me."

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