The following is a letter I received the week of 06/17/2001, from Jonie Green, My "Blairsville Bestest QuitBuddy"
Hello Tom, It was so good to chat for a minute today and so sorry to hear about Jean's foot...send her my well wishes...I am so glad you are doing well... isn't it wonderful to be smoke free for over 2-1/2 years now.
Well I told you I would share my wonderful praise and I will. You know I had to have a stent put in the main descending artery of my heart in February... well I failed my stress test miserably after 1-1/2 minutes I threatened another heart attack and had to be "nitro'd" the whole nine yards... they told me I had restenosed and had another large blockage in the same artery... possibly old plaque, possibly new "good" growth inside the stent but in any event it had to be dealt with right away.... so they made sure I had a supply of nitro and told me to carry it with me at all times and to always have someone aware of where it was and how to give it to me... they literally scared the "patookey" out of me...well the earliest they could get the cath lab was 5 days later so they set me up for a cath and angio on Wednesday afternoon...
Dave and I went to church on Saturday night instead of Sunday because our kids from out of town were coming only for a couple of hours in the morning... when we got into the santuary the pastor was leaning against the back wall as I passed by and he reached out and asked me how I was... I told him I had to have another blockage removed and he turned his program to me .... he had just written the word heart blockage on it prior to me entering the church... he said the Lord told him clearly that someone was having that problem... anyway... during the service he asked me to come forth and receive prayer and asked the entire congregation to pray for me....WOW!!!!
That evening our friend called and told us that a visiting pastor with a "healing ministry" from California was speaking in the evenings and urged us to come on Monday night... well we did and here again I received congrational prayer for healing... well I didn't know one way or the other but I accepted God's will for me....before I knew it Wed was here and I had to leave for the hosp...I sat on the footstool in the living room and felt like I had been hit with an electric wire.... all I could do was cry....the rest is history... I had the cath and the cardioligst told my family because "I was still drugged" that when he got in my heart he was completely "underwhelmed" that the large blockage was gone....and he actually apologized for having me submit to the procedure... when I was more alert he then came to me and told me the exact same thing....I said Dr. Moeller this is very important to me I would like you to honestly answer this question...he said yes.... I said when I failed the stress test did you actually see the large blockage on the film .... Tommy I saw the ekg and I nearly flatlined for about twelve inches of the page... the doctor answered yes Joan I did see a large blockage or I would never have put you through this procedure again.... I said to Doc Moeller I received a miracle healing from all the folks at my church praying for me...and the doc said "yes Joan you probably did!" talk about overwhelmed.... I am still shouting praises and thanksgiving!.....Tom our God is an Awesome God!..... thanks so much for being such a wonderful friend and thank you particularly for loving the Lord and allowing me to share this marvelous blessing..... Love and hugs to you and yours my bestest buddy....lets not let this much time go by before we talk again... deal?......