Have you ever experienced a miracle?

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When you totally gave up..
Totally against the odds...
Not expected at all...
Didn't realise then, but totally appreciate it now...
When it just can't be real....
Not necessarily religion related (of course it can be too)

Please share your story, in this cold dark evening and the war is looming. So we know there is always hope...

I was diagnosed with a disease that had no treatment other than transplant when things deteriorated and was told I had a 20% chance of living more than 5 years.

That was over 10 years ago. I went into spontaneous remission. My doctor told me he had contacted specialists in other hospitals and they all agreed this was “a medical miracle” (the doctors words in a letter to me).

Terry Pratchett on miracles
"Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

@nokidshere how old were you when you had them? That's amazing btw

@godmum56

Terry Pratchett on miracles "Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

Yes… even after my experiences I still agree with this.

My friend in America was in an Uber just before Christmas. He opened his wallet to pay and because of his job, he has a large amount of cash he had been given. He always pays a cash tip to taxi drivers so Uber don't keep any of it.

Anyway, as he opened his wallet, $100 kind of jumped out of it. He decided to give it to his driver as a tip.

The driver started crying and thanking him and Jesus for answering prayers. She told my friend that she was going home right away. She had a health problem and had been working to pay for some medication she needed, since she had received such a big tip she was able to go get her meds and then rest.

I know that my friend could have kept the money or given her a different tip, but he said it really felt as if it has flown out of his wallet. He is not in the least bit religious but he felt it was some kind weird coincidence at least.

My daughter was 3 months old and she just wouldn't settle no matter what I did. Slight fever and unusual continuous cry. Took her to A&E to be told I was a young mom worrying over colic. Something that day made me refuse to leave the hospital. A paediatric registrar came to talk to me took one look at my DD and instantly said she had meningitis and sepsis and was seriously Ill. I'm so thankful I trusted my instincts. She is now a happy and healthy 12 year old miracle.

@godmum56

Terry Pratchett on miracles "Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

of course, miracles can be good and bad, like all things. I thought it is a common understanding.

I had a religious one. DS2 was born with a number of physical deformities and autism. His needs were relaly complex, half his problems weren't diagnosed. He refused to eat and screamed in agony all night every night. We were both ill with sleep deprivation and poor DS1 was pretty much ignored. We were due to move house when our buyers suddenly pulled out, just as we were about to exchange. I'd had no more than an hour's sleep a night for a week, was hallucinating, had appalling PND. I remember standing in the kitchen and saying, 'God if you are there, let me know because I can't take any more of this. I need you to take the load.' At that moment I actually felt a lifting of pressure, like someone lifting a really heavy backpack off your shoulders, and my body was flooded with a loving, calm feeling. It was immediate and lasting. I also got a strong signal to call the buyers who'd pulled out and very gently and kindly explain to them how difficult our situation had become because of them. Then I just trusted God to sort it out. A week later they called with a change of heart and offered the full asking price to say sorry for messing us around!

I converted to Christianity about a year later because of it. Until then, I'd been atheist, but I had nowhere else to turn so I thought I'd give Him a go.

I developed sepsis from a skin infection in my leg.

I have no memory of a whole week, but my kidney function dropped to 5%, I was totally away with the fairies and they were preparing me for itu where I'd have dialysis. None of the antibiotics were working,

That evening my dh emailed the members of our very small church and they prayed for me while dh was at home, wondering how to tell our 3 young children how ill I was.

Next morning I was up, bright and chirpy and ready to eat breakfast. I had had a very vivid dream which I think was a near death experience, and the fancy antibiotic had kicked in. It was against all the odds and as dh is a doctor he knew just how poor my chances were.

So I'm my miracle.

No but I hope to in the next few days. My bf has just gone through her 4th operation in a week.
It's now touch and go if she'll make it. She is the strongest woman...no person...I have ever met and it will utterly destroy her family and me if she dies. Please let there be a miracle 🙏

My mum tried for 14 years to have a baby. After countless miscarriages and having an ovary removed after an ectopic pregnancy, she finally gave up. A few months later, she was pregnant on me.

Another story, my son was around 6 months old and was put in his cot to sleep. He had managed to wriggle up his cot and get his head under his bumper. Myself and his dad were sat downstairs, when we heard this almighty bang on the side of his cot. If that unexplained bang hadn’t have happened, we all know what the outcome would have been. To this day, I still cannot explain what hit the side of his cot.

Yes, when I passed my German o-level, despite having bunked off approx a third of classes and done fuck all homework for the whole 2 years.

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@Oncewassmith

I was 32 years old, I had just divorced my first husband (for after 10 years not telling me he didn't want children). The day after my divorce was finalised was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer - the chemo would certainly leave me infertile, I had egg harvesting, after the chemo and radiotherapy, I had a extra "private ' blood test that gave me a 0.003% chance of naturally conceiving. Four weeks later I was at work of a night shift complaining about the smell of people dinners and my boobs aching- my friend had a "spare" pregnancy test on her, and it turned out that irregardless of the chance I was pregnant!!!!!

Was your ex husband the dad, or had you met someone else ??

@flyingdream I was 39 and 41. DH was 48 and 50. I started ttc when I was 21and I never in my life imagined I would only become a parent at that age. I have 5 sisters who have a total of 14 children between them and they all got pregnant pretty much immediately.

We were so shocked I spent 2 days sobbing my heart out because I wasn't ready and was too old. They are still a miracle.

I don't know the exact details because it's traumatic for my mum to talk about, but we were in a terrible car accident when I was only 3 months old, back in the 70s. Mum was driving on winding back roads in rural Scotland and I was lying in my carry cot on the back seat. A drunk driver came around a bend and hit my mum's car, which sent her off the road and our car was rolled over. We were not badly hurt. The car was absolutely wrecked. Dad (who we were on our way to pick up so wasn't in the car) says it was a miracle we weren't killed and someone was watching over us that night. I can't begin to think how terrified I would be as a new mum in that situation.

Another "my child" one.

DS was a seemingly healthy pregnancy.
Labour at 35 weeks, EMCS and he was born blue. Managed to get him onto a ventilator.

Diagnosed with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, missed at every scan. Instead of his liver or intestines going up into the hole, we think the liver actually blocked the hole, enabling his lung to grow fully. Normally with such a huge diaphragmatic hernia he'd have had a severely impacted lung. He couldn't be operated on until day 13 and literally the first words from our surgeons mouth was "was that was harder than I expected!"

Did genetic testing and he has a mosaic trisomy. If he'd had the full trisomy, combined with the CDH, I doubt we'd have him.

If they'd diagnosed the condition pre birth and had pushed us for genetic testing (it is a condition liked to a trisomy) they may have not been so willing to treat and operate in him.

In the process of operating, his superior vena cava was damaged and basically is totally occluded due to scar tissue. His body MADE ITS OWN COLLATERAL VEINS when he was outside of my body so his heart could still function. His heart looks like a can of spaghetti apparently there's so many extra veins.

He required more surgery in his bowel at 1 and I repeatedly signed off permission for a stoma, which we avoided at every op.

And on top of it all, he's a boy and boys have lower survival rates anyway.

He is in mainstream school, being average. No long term learning disability which we were told was a, certainty. Likely some neurodevelopmental stuff and there'd some long term physical stuff going on but if yo u did the odds of him being alive as a lottery win, we'd be frigging millionaires.

my mother and father were devastated when my bother's LTR broke down, the pain in their voice was heart breaking.
i got down on my knees and prayed prayed so very very gut wrenching hard, not for me but for my parents.
he was well into his 40's and a bachelor (although regular relationships that lasted a few years each). they did not want him to age and die alone.
well within months he met the most wonderful gal who herself had never been wed, similar age.
well they married and i know she is an answer to my prayers.

icing on the cake their marriage was blessed with a special certificate from the pope.
similar story with my dd.

ohhh also another gut wrenching agonizing prayer to st joseph. my eldest was diagnosed with azoospermia. he is a very kind young man who did not have an easy childhood.
i prayed if st joseph could intervene and help him become a father.
sure enough via sperm donation him and his wife became parents with very very low odds due to her having several factors going against her.

My daughter.
She was born lifeless, no oxygen to her brain for 7 mins. She was revived and taken up to NICU. Diagnosed with sepsis and encephalopathy. 95% of babies with this go on to have limited lives or severe learning disabilities, physical disabilities or extremely high needs.
On day 4 we were told they'd done all they could and she was getting sicker, prepare for the worst.
The next morning she had ripped out her feeding tube, her oxygen tube and was breathing on her own, and took a bottle. Her blood cultures dramatically dropped. She pulled out her canulas and continued to do so - we brought her home on day 7 after a complete shock 3 day recovery.
The consultants were completely baffled. We were fully prepared for several issues due to the lack of oxygen to her brain.
She is now 7 years old, and perfectly healthy- no medical issues followed, nothing.
She's so bright, and just wonderfully kind hearted. Everywhere she goes people tell me how polite and well spoken she is.
She is our miracle. Those doctors saved her life and gave me mine. I'm thankful every single day.

One hospital I worked in a toddler came into A and E with a knife in his abdomen (accident not abuse).

He was sent round multiple departments looking for damage because the knife missed all his organs and no one could work out how a knife could have missed everything.

Not sure if it’s a miracle or blind luck but many years ago, I shared a house at uni with a friend of mine from the same town area 2hrs away. He didn’t drive and his family lived remotely so it was a headache for him getting various buses and things - much easier if I took him. We both went home every weekend (I had a weekend job there as did he) so I always gave him a lift with me in the car on Friday and back on Sunday, weekend after weekend religiously for a couple of years. One weekend he rung me on the Sunday eve at the last min to say he wasn’t feeling great and wasn’t going to come - this was unusual as he would usually come anyway even if under the weather, as the alternative of going alone later was hassle for him and he could just rest in our house share.

That particular Sunday night, I had a major 70mph crash (caused by a boy racer) and hit a tree, a branch of which went right through my passenger seat - which for once happened to be empty.

I was in a car crash not so long ago, hit at high speed by a driver not seeing a stop sign. I was trapped in the car, and all the emergency services were expecting to be removing a body. Somehow I got out with no broken bones and managed to walk to the ambulance. They said if I'd been even a few feet further down the road when he hit me, I would have died instantly on impact. It's still sinking in how lucky I am to be alive.

I have to think long and hard for myself
But ill put one down that I've seen happen to someone I know.
I attended a wedding when I was about 6. I'm 35 now.
That married couple couldn't have children. I remember the groom was quite a drinker. After a few years of trying they decided it wasn't going to happen so dedicated their life to charity. He gave up drinking within about a year of marriage.
They helped raise their siblings children and she them have grandchildren
They had a little boy last week. Totally out of the blue. I actually cried when I found out.

Ds’s existence.

At 6 weeks I started bleeding. Had a scan.

With early pregnancy, until about a year before ds’s conception, a miscarriage was diagnosed if the sac was 20mm or larger and there was no heartbeat. However, there was a very tiny number of cases (less than 0.5%) where the measurement was exactly 20mm and the pregnancy turned out to be viable.

In the research there were no cases of measurements of 21mm or more with a viable pregnancy.

However, as there is a certain margin for error with measurements, to be on the super safe side they moved the measurement to 25mm.

Ds measured at 24mm with no heartbeat. Had the implications of this explained quite carefully but had to go away and wait two weeks just to be sure.

Went back 2 weeks later to have the miscarriage confirmed and there he was with a heartbeat.

I called him “Bumblebee baby” for my entire pregnancy. (The science says that bumblebees can’t fly but no one has told the bumblebee.)