Matthew 19:26

I don’t know why God has laid it on my heart to tell of this journey. If anyone ever called me spineless, I can testify that it is not true. These are the stories my spine would tell.

It begin in the 1900’s. I was born sometime during that timeframe. I don’t think about my age. Nate and the kids remind me when I have a birthday.

At birth, the doctor took me with forceps and hurt my neck and somehow my kidneys got twisted. I don’t know if that was the doctor’s fault or was it mine . . . When being one mad baby, I turned to smack him for hurting my neck 🙂

Forward on to 1957 when Dad, mom and I were traveling in the WV hills . . . After a truck had lost control, it hit us head on . . . This was before seat belts . . . My head hit the windshield and broke it (broken windshield, not my head).

Forward on to 1962, I was in a truck on a hayride with a youth group. We were all cutting up as teenagers do . . . The next thing I knew I had been thrown and was sitting on the side of the road with my spine straight up and down against the fence post. Shots were given sometime later to release the muscles.

Forward to 1976, I was driving a VW bug when a cement mixer was behind me which I had been watching in my rear view mirror. I had my signal light on as I was getting ready to make a turn. The traffic pattern was being directed by road workers. I had taken my eyes off the rear view mirror . . . The next thing I knew . . . The cement mixer rear ended me and propelled my little VW over an embankment. My seat and seat belt were broken.

Since these things occurred, you can imagine some of the struggles I have had to rise above spinal discord and pain.

There have been fascinating journeys and Blessings between these occurrences. God allowed me to learn, work, live, enjoy and recognize His greatness.

It was a blessing when they discovered on an MRI recently that the nerves and degenerative arthritis was causing my left leg pain. I tuned it out of the day, but the night cramps have left me feeling like I have been in nightly fights with a bear!

Yesterday, the doctor in JC put time released steroids and numbing medications in my lower back. He told me that I would have more leg pain last night and gradually over the coming days, feel better. Any relief last night was great relief and there was relief. They will again be working on my neck this next week.