When Medicine and
Poultice Failed Totally
It was in 1985 that I had
a fall from a coconut tree, and suffered an injury on my spinal cord. I
was paralysed waist down. After 6 months' treatment, with the help of two
walking sticks I began taking a few steps.
In this state I attended
a retreat at Potta in 1986 and then every year at Divine. On one occasion
while travelling by jeep, the heel of my left foot, which had lost all
sensation, was burnt while I stamped on the gear box. I was totally unaware
of it. The burnt part began festering and refused to heal. Three years
later a strong fit of fever began pestering me. The sore part became wider.
I could hardly step on the floor. The whole of October 1996 saw me prostate
in hospital. Not even amputation would stop the putrefaction, the doctors
said.
In December 1996 I again
attended a retreat at Divine. Fr Panackal, placing his hand on my head
said that neither medicine nor poultice would heal me but the word of God
would. According to father's advice, I got admitted in 1997 January in
Pothi hospital in Kottayam district. Each time the wound had to be dressed,
the doctor kept praying that it might heal.
While attending a Mass in
the hospital, I suddenly felt a tingling sensation in my leg. When the
bandage was removed for dressing the wound, it was found that all festering
had ceased; the wound was healed. Praise to you Jesus! Now I am able to
walk about and go for work with the aid of a specially-designed shoe. What
was impossible to man and above his reason, my Lord did for me.
T K George
Thekenedath
House,
Chowara, Kerala