Monday, March 22, 2010

PTL! It Is Nothing

Last October during a sleep test, an EKG showed I had one incident of 33 beats when my heart was racing.
The day I found out about this, my hubby was in Brooklyn at his job there. that night he was attending Brooklyn Tabernacle's prayer meeting along with several pastors from our church. He went forward for prayer for my heart situation. The person who prayed with him, said , "So you want this to turn out to be nothing?" Yes, my husband assured him, we want the heart problem to be nothing. That is what they prayed that night.
My sleep doctor informed my primary physician, who called me. When he spoke to me about it, he said, It is probably "nothing", but we need to check it out just to make sure.
I saw a cardiologist who put me on a Beta blocker . I had an echo cardiogram, which showed "nothing". I wore a Holter monitor for 24 hours which showed "nothing". Next I had a nuclear stress test, which showed "nothing".
The cardiologist, although they had found "nothing" in all of their tests, would not take me off the Beta blocker and sent me to see an arrhythmia doctor.
This doctor wanted me to have a cardiac MRI, which I did. It showed "nothing". At this point he did take me off the Beta blocker. But he said it was troubling that they could not find the cause of the serious incident I had. So I wore a cardiac monitor for two weeks. Today I saw him for the results. Can you guess? It found "nothing". (His exact words). He says my heart is fine, my blood pressure is good (116/61). He will see me in 6 months to check in about the blood pressure and make sure all is well.
From the time the prayer was prayed in Brooklyn, I believed that God had answered and there would be "nothing" found. Each time I got test results, the word "nothing" was used as confirmation that God had handled it. I am thankful for that "nothing" prayer and answer. God is good.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

NOTHING?!!?? That is so AWESOME!! Sometimes it is wonderful thanking God for this type of "nothing", when it is actually a BIG "SOMETHING"... Praise The Lord! So glad for you and your family. Audrey~

Dottie said...

Ruthie that is a big Praise the Lord. Are you running around shouting hallelujah!!! What a testimony to answered Prayer! God is Good. I am not sure how I phrased my comment when this first happened if I used the word nothing. But I too prayed that this would be nothing.. I feel like shouting with you!! What an awesome God we serve!

Have a great day..

badmammajammma1 said...

Ruthie Miracles do happen!!!

Treasure your Life
Carol

Unknown said...

I don't know how I missed the blog. I thought I checked last week to see if something was new but maybe I didn't actually get a chance to do that. I am very happy for your "nothing" news. As you said, PTL! It's been a long road for you to get that confirmed. I continue to pray that your health issues will continue to improve.

theSouthernGirl21 said...

praise God! How are you now? God bless you! =)