Hi Brad,
I just read this message.  A miracle for sure.  I am praying for these 
people.  It gave me chills reading about Chris.
Prayers and blessings for them.

Virgie and lady Hoshi
doing business at

www.vunderwood.ktostemtech.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.


Hey Jen,

You might have heard this story before but I'll mention it again for the
newbees on list:.

I've got a  fishing pal of mine that is known as the miracle of St. John's
Hospital here in the Twin Cities.  This happened long before I met him and
hopefully they have had other miracles occur since then to drown out the
title but nonetheless his miracle, was nothing short of, well? Miraculous.
His name is Chris, and at the time was a police officer in a small town
outside of the Twin Cities. His dad and step mom were children's pastor of
a church which was a full spirit, charismatic, Pentecostal or whatever
label you want to put on it, but they believed in the power of healing.
Chris was fairly newly married and I believe had a little one too at this
time. Chris had a beat partner who served in Desert Storm, sort of the
appetizer of the current war we are drowning. umm, that we are engaged in
now.  Chris started not feeling well, growing steadily worse, I'm not sure
of all the symptoms but they couldn't figure out what in the heck was wrong
with him. Finally he'd gotten so bad he was hospitalized. The nearest they
figure is the partner had brought bad a virus from the Middle East and
Chris caught it from him and it was  affecting him terrible. He had gotten
so bad they had him on life support and oxygen and everything and things
did not look good for Chris because the doctors were doing all they knew to
do to help him, but they didn't know what they were dealing with so
treatment was poke and hope and the clock was ticking down. His wife was
not a Christian at the time, or her family, but Chris's dad and step-mom
like I said were and they darn well were not letting their son check out
without doing all they could. Chris's dad at one critical point I believed
laid hands on him and prayed despite staff not wanting him there, in fact
all he could grasp was his toes.  One night sleeping on the couch his dad
had a dream/vision and saw what he believed to be a vision that said his
son will be OK. It's been a while since I heard what his vision was so I
don't recall it but it was a strange kind of dream in need of
interpretation which he claimed he had, and also claimed that his son would
be OK. His dad had gathered all the believers he knew who could come and
lay hands on and pray for Chris, Chris's wife not being a Christian was
like appalled, a gasp at the thought of it, and refused they do this thing.
Well they laid hands on him and prayed nonetheless. Chris at this point was
all the worse and they did not expect him to make it. His lungs were crisp
or permanently damaged due to the length and strength of oxygen he was on
to try to keep him alive and even with that his muscles and body began to
atrophy. Soon the doctors had to make a choice; they could not leave him on
life support any longer because it was beginning to do more damage than
potential good. Family and friends continued to pray. The doctors finally
began to remove the life support off of him and prepared the family for
what was inevitable. Much to everyone's surprise however, the more he was
removed from oxygen, the better he did, the more life support that was
removed, the better he did. The day after he was removed from life support
Chris walked a bouquet of flowers to the nurse's station in thanks for
their support. He went from just a few turns of medical equipment
nobs  toward death to walking in a matter of a day or two. The doctor who
cared and treated Chris for the entire time he was under his care, which I
think was told me near $100,000, forgone his fee  as he told them he did
nothing to save the man and it was clearly a true miracle and he could not
take any payment for that.

Chris is in perfect health today, probably a decade and a half later. His
wife is a good Christian woman. And please if you have read this far,
please  pray for these two as  due to varying circumstances are struggling
through a foreclosure and financial troubles as well some challenges with
their teenage boys. They are just good folks and a reminder of "There for
the grace of God go I".

Brad