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Susanna Quek

My Grandma Healed

On 8 June, my Grandma came from Tg Pinang. She had a fall at home, and she started to lose control of her bowels and not recognise the people around her. I brought her to the A&E dept in Changi Hospital that evening.

After perfoming all necessary checks and scans, the doctor delivered the bad news. He said my Grandma had a pretty bad fall, and there were a lot of blood clots in her brain. He figured that it must have been quite a bad fall, because Grandma had a crack on her back skull, but the blood clots were actually found on her forehead. It was probably caused by a jerking action. Nobody knew how or when she fell. The only thing we knew was that Grandma's condition was quite bad.

My Beautiful Grandma

The doctor ordered that Grandma be admitted straight away. The neurosurgeons decided that they would not operate on her to remove the clots as she was 88 years old. In the doctor's words, he said "your grandma is very very sick. You should call all your relatives to inform them that she's very sick...and yes...the conditon might deterioriate very fast".
Grandma wasn't expected to make a complete recovery because of her age.

After spending a week in the hospital, Grandma's condition didn't improve significantly. She still couldn't recognise any of us, and she seemed like she was in a lot of pain. The nurses tried to feed her, but she refused to open her mouth. They had to tie her hands to the bed as she kept pulling out the needles on her hands. They also tried to insert a feeding tube through her mouth so that liquid food could be delievered into her stomach. She looked like she was in a lot of pain and discomfort, and the familly decided to discharge her.

Grandma spent a few days at my home. I then called Dorcas and Paul, and they came to pray for her recovery. Grandma had a lung infection, and her condition was deterioting very fast. After two days, Paul and Dorcas prayed for her again. Grandma had wanted to go back to Tg Pinang, and we were worried that she might not be in the right condition to go back. By the grace of God, we found a team of mobile doctors who gave her medical care from home. Grandma was treated for another two weeks before she went back to Tg Pinang in early July.

I visited my grandma on 1 August in Tg Pinang. Praise the Lord. My grandma is completely healed! She now recognises everyone around her, and she remembers everything except the period when she was sick. GOD's grace really shined on my grandma, and GOD had proved the doctors wrong. My grandma is healed. Her skull is now perfectly alright, and she is starting to walk, and leading an independent life again.

Mei Wong

A Miracle Baby

Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. Mark 11:24

We had been trying for a baby for a few years. I had two miscarriages (in Dec 2004 and Dec 2005). To find out the reason for the recurring miscarriages, we opted for a test. The test result showed that our second baby had Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and was under the fatal category where its major organs do not develop properly.

After the second miscarriage, we tried again for a very long time while coping emotionally. It was during then that I attended my first church camp in May 2007. During the camp, my friend Chieh Ling came up to me and said that God had put a burden in her heart to pray for me. Through her prayer, I felt God’s love and knew He was aware of all the struggles that I was going through. I also asked her to keep me in prayer for me to conceive a healthy baby. 

Praise God! I was pregnant in October 2007. During my 11th week check up, my gynae measured my baby’s neck skin and found that it was much thicker than usual. This indicated either Down syndrome or a major heart problem. Without delay, my gynae, Doctor Teoh sent me to NUH for a second opinion.

The detailed scan and blood test indicated that I stood a very high chance of carrying a Down syndrome baby. The normal ratio for my age is 1:192, but my result showed I fell under the fatal category (where the baby cannot even survive) of 1:4 and under the non-fatal category of 1:6. Dr Teoh and the professor from NUH both strongly urged me to go for a chromosome test, but this pose a very high risk of miscarriage. Fear gripped us as we learnt of the test result. The same fear, pain and disappointments filled us as we recalled the loss of our second baby. We felt lost and helpless.

Andrew felt that we should carefully consider whether to proceed with the test as having a baby is a life time responsibility. As for me, all I wanted was to commit the whole situation to God, trust Him with all my heart and believe that He was in control. I persuaded Andrew to support my decision, telling him that all things are possible with God and with Him, we can have supernatural blessings. Andrew wasn’t a believer yet and he found it hard to stand by my decision. He could neither sleep nor work and his eyes were teary most of the time. I told Pastor Simon about it and he suggested that we go for the Friday Freedom service in our church. 

We went and during the prayer ministry, Andrew felt God’s love and presence. That night, he let out all his emotions and finally - after a whole week of sleepless nights - he was able to sleep as he felt peace in his heart. The next day, I called up Ivy, my lifenet leader and told her about our decision to keep the baby and not go for further tests. Our Church, Pastor, lifenet and Chieh Ling were very supportive and committed to keep us in prayer. I still remember when we informed our gynae of our decision, he told us to start reading on how to take care of special needs children as the chances of us having a Down syndrome baby was at a 90% high.  We rejected his comments and held on to God’s promises.

Praise the Lord, baby Zane was born on 31 July 2008. He is truly a precious and perfect gift from God. We are very grateful to God for his great love, blessings, faithfulness and strength. We cannot imagine what life will be without God.  Our church has been most loving and supportive. Andrew felt God’s great love through them and accepted Christ.

ALL GLORY TO GOD!!! We love you Lord and thank you so much for making our life beautiful.

If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move; and nothting will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20