Hi Kathy,
I took blood pressure medication for years and my doctor told me when I 
started taking it I would have to be on it for the rest of my life.  The 
last time I saw the doctor I took a print out of my blood pressure readings 
for him to check out.  When he took my blood pressure it was normal and he 
took me off the medication.  It is a miracle because I have had a lot going 
on in my life and He is the only one who could have performed that miracle 
for me.  Don't lose hope, these kinds of miracles do happen.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Praise Report


> Hey Phil,
>         I really appreciate this testimony.  I'm finding myself having to 
> begin with a medical issue of my own that has really caught me off guard. 
> When I went in for my annual check up about three weeks ago, my blood 
> pressure was a little high.  I was asked to keep coming in for checks and, 
> basically, it is bounsing around.  Yesterday, I had another exam and it 
> was really high, to the point of scary.  As they were asking me questions, 
> I lead a pretty healthy life, I don't drink soft drinks, or much junk food 
> and I walk about three miles a day,  so there isn't much I can do, but 
> take more blood tests and continue to work on losing weight, which I hope 
> will help, but now, it looks like I will have to be using a blood pressure 
> medication.  I've always dreaded the day when I would have to start taking 
> drugs to stay, "normal," whatever that is.  Since I deal with a lot of 
> older people who seem to practically take drug cocktales, it doesn't look 
> pleasant.  I had always figured that that day, of drugs, was a long way 
> off for me.  Thanks for the reminder of Jesus.  Of course, I know that, 
> but it is nice to here it out loud, from someone else.
> Kathy  whose hoping that I won't need to be on it for long
>
>
> At 01:13 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:
>>Virgie,
>>
>>That's great.  Years ago I suddenly became ill.  I felt like I was getting
>>the stomach flue.  I finally went into the bathroom to up chuck and there 
>>on
>>my knees, starting to heave, as it were, I called out loudly, "Jesus!" 
>>That
>>was the only thing I could speak at that second.  I suddenly felt my 
>>stomach
>>settle and nothing happened, that is, I didn't vomit.  I went back out of 
>>my
>>office to work and for an hour, a voice in my thoughts, sort of, kept
>>saying, it won't last.  I kept rebuking that voice and claiming I was 
>>healed
>>by the stripes of Jesus.  Within an hour, I never had any more symptoms. 
>>No
>>one can tell me that just the name of Jesus doesn't work.  Sure, I have 
>>been
>>sick hundreds of times since that day, not to mention even things in 
>>recent
>>weeks with my back.  I still seek Jesus in each situation, though, and 
>>maybe
>>tomorrow, I will post to the list what happened concerning my back pain 
>>when
>>I began to amend Wednesday.  It is quite miraculous.  Something 
>>spiritually
>>unusual happened to me during these weeks of perpetual back pain that I'll
>>tell about later.
>>
>>Phil.
>