One miracle now leads to another one
Published: November 4, 2005
I’d never understood how past circumstances intertwined by an uncommon thread of recent events could produce a miraculous story.
But when my sister, Joni, called the day before her 21st birthday to tell us she’d come home and found her roommate gravely ill, everything came together for me.
I finally understood reasons behind a miracle that had happened many years ago with God sparing Joni’s life.
Within minutes, an amazing story began to piece together before my eyes, begging for me to tell the world.
Joni had been seriously injured in a bicycle accident when she was 10 years old. It caused extensive swelling to her brain and doctors told my parents the first 24 hours were critical. There was a time when we didn’t know if she would make it.
But God spared her life and amazingly –on her own 21st birthday, she was around to help save the life of a roommate who was hospitalized due to a brain aneurism.
Doctors told my sister it was a miracle the aneurism was found before it burst – and it was due to my sister’s quick thinking.
When she saw her roommate, Yuka, coming in and out of consciousness, she immediately called 911, gave emergency personnel the information needed, and provided the necessary contact information.
Yuka is originally from Japan and had moved to America to go to school. She had no relatives here and if she had gotten ill a day earlier, there is a really good chance she would not have made it.
My sister was in LSU with the Auburn band and didn’t get back to her doom until late Sunday morning. She’d thought about going to church because she never misses Sunday night services but, at the last minute, something told her to stay home.
I believe in prayer, I believe in miracles. And I believe all these incidents happened for a reason.
Yuka went through brain surgery the next morning, with doctors at Columbia Hospital in Georgia putting a metal clip on the aneurism. It didn’t burst and, although she’s still in critical condition in ICU, she is doing better.
But the fact she’s still alive is a miracle, doctors say.
It was a miracle that in some ways was made possible by the miracle that began with the miracle of my own sister’s recovery.
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