Miracle: A Story Of Healing
Published: May 8, 2008
Tyrone Hickman II, 14, said he was healed of a serious disease because of his family’s faith in God.
“Trust in his word and just do what you got to do,” Hickman said.
Tyrone’s amazing story began before he was born. Pat and Tyrone Hickman decided not to have more children after their first child, 19-year-old Tyrah was born with sickle cell anemia.
Despite their plans, Tyrone was born five years later.
The elder Tyrone Hickman has a rare form of the disease that’s hard to detect called sickle cell thalassemia.
“It wasn’t until we had our first baby, we discovered he had the trait,” Pat Hickman said.
Sickle cell anemia is a condition in which red blood cells are sickle-shaped instead of smooth and round. The cells are stiff and clumpy and get stuck in blood vessels. Clumps of sickle cells can block the flow of blood to limbs and organs causing plain, serious infections and organ damage.
The Hicksmans are members of New Horizon church. They asked their pastor, Bishop Ronnie Crudup, to pray for healing for their unborn child.
“At the altar, he laid hands on me, on my stomach,” Pat Hickman said. “I can remember standing there and as he prayed it was if I went into a zone. I could hear I could actually hear this inner voice speaking to me. Saying he’s healed as the pastor was praying.”
The Hickmans said their pastor’s teachings about faith encouraged them.
“He turned out to be a healthy baby. He was hardly ever sick,” Pat Hickman said.
Seven years later, the Hickmans welcomed another surprise: a boy named Tyler.
“Forty years old and there I was, pregnant with another baby,” Pat Hickman said.
Then when Tyrone Hickman II was 11 years old, he had a stroke. Doctors determined that he was born with the same sickle cell trait as his father. Doctors recommended blood transfusions. The Hickmans decided against it.
The only other option was a bone marrow transplant. Their doctor reminded them about the blood saved when Tyler was born five years earlier.
“The doctor suggested we do cord blood collection and store his blood in case we ever want to do a bone marrow transplant for one of our children,” Pat Hickman said. “They could only store the blood for five years.”
Tyler Hickman was already 5 years old and the blood was nearing the end of its usefulness.
The Hickmans said they sought counseling from their pastor.
“He said God heals in different ways, this could be your healing,” Pat Hickman said.
At a Sunday service, the entire congregation prayed for Tyrone. Then he went into the hospital for 30 days to undergo chemotherapy and then the bone marrow transplant.
“Every morning at the hospital we would start off with prayer service,” Pat Hickman said. “Even though (Tyrone Hickman II) didn’t feel like it he would participate.”
After his hospital stay and 100 days of isolation to avoid infection, tests showed Tyrone Hickman II was cured.
“God had already spoken that Tyrone was going to be healed,” Pat Hickman said. “I didn’t know how he was going to do it. God knew and he knew Tyler had to be a part of that plan.”
Bishop Crudup is convinced Tyrone Hickman II’s healing is a miracle.
“It is an intervention typically of God into the affairs of men,” Crudup said.
A God who Tyrone Hickman II believes orchestrated amazing circumstances to heal him.
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