SO WHAT WEDNESDAYS w/Coach Ella Destiny
Coach Ella Destiny's transformative wisdom extends beyond the pages of her book, "There Is Nothing Wrong With Saying So What" and onto the digital stage with her new YouTube series "So What Wednesdays." This dynamic series offers viewers a weekly dose of inspiration, empowerment, and practical advice to embrace authenticity and live life to the fullest!
SO WHAT WEDNESDAYS w/Coach Ella Destiny
“Inspirations from Illness: Coach Ella Destiny’s Fight Against an Aneurysm”
What happens when a relentless headache turns out to be a life-threatening medical emergency? Join us for a moving conversation as Coach Ella Destiny returns to So Well Wednesdays after a significant hiatus, bravely sharing her story of survival and recovery from an ACOM aneurysm. Ella recounts the gradual onset of her symptoms, the critical moment of her collapse, and the overwhelming support she received that bolstered her spirit through her ordeal. Her journey is a heartfelt reminder of the importance of health vigilance and the power of community in times of crisis.
In a particularly touching segment, we spotlight the unwavering faith and steadfast friendship of Pastor Tonya, or Pastor T, who stood by Ella during her darkest moments. Pastor T's immediate response, driven by a divine call, underscores the importance of having faith-filled friends who can intercede and offer support when we need it most. This chapter exemplifies how spiritually strong companions can provide comfort and even facilitate healing during life's most challenging trials.
Ella's story also emphasizes the role of faith and prayer in overcoming adversities. Sharing personal experiences and biblical references, the episode highlights how faith can provide peace and resilience amidst turmoil. The narrative also brings to light the importance of familial bonds and the profound impact of collective prayer and support from "sister friends." Coach Ella Destiny’s return is a testament to the strength of the human spirit, the power of community, and the transformative potential of faith. Don't miss this inspiring episode filled with heartfelt reflections and practical lessons on preparedness and resilience.
okay, there it is, I think, all right. So we are live, hey y'all. Hey, this is your girl, coach Ella Destiny. Thank you all for joining me. I am back, finally, with my so Well Wednesdays.
Speaker 1:This is a special edition. I am going to wait and allow a few more people to jump in here and then I'm going to go ahead and get started. I cannot wait to share with y'all the guests that I have on tonight. I cannot wait to share the information that I have. It has been a long time and y'all know I have been on a journey over the past three months, but we're going to let some more people come in and then we are going to go ahead and get started. Hey y'all, hey, thank y'all so much for joining me. I hope y'all. Um, I know it was raining and storming, so I hope everybody is safe. I hope y'all. I know it was raining and storming, so I hope everybody is safe. I hope y'all are home and shelter, because it was storming pretty bad.
Speaker 1:Y'all, welcome in. Let me know where y'all are tuning in from. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank y'all so much for joining me. It feels so good to be back. Hey, barbara, it feels so good to be back y'all. I was, hey, barbara from Maryland, dr Barbara, y'all, I was down but I wasn't out. I was down but I was not out, and so I am super excited to be back. This is my first so what? Wednesday since April actually, and I just have so much to share with y'all. I got so much information, I have so much that I want to talk about and, again, I have some amazing guests that are going to be joining us. So I am waiting for some more of our guests to join us I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1:Everybody knows that I was in the hospital Everybody knows I was at ICU.
Speaker 1:Thank you all so much for reaching out. Thank you so much for your prayers, your words of encouragement, all of those things. I know that you've seen the post and you might know a little bit about what's going on, but I think it was important. Well, I'm not going to say I think it was important for me to get on here so that you guys could see my face, so y'all could know that prayer really does work, and for me to actually tell my story and what happened, and so that's what this is all about. Hey, that's what this is all about, and so I'm just going to go ahead and jump right into it. So, april the 19th of this year, a few months ago, I had what's called an ACOM aneurysm, and I'm just going to give you all just a backstory of what happened. So everybody knows that I'm an ambassador for fibro sensors.
Speaker 1:I suffered with fibroids for a long time. On April the 18th, I woke up and I had a little headache. It wasn't like a bad headache, but I had a headache right and I had pain behind my eye right and, um, I had pain behind my eye. So I didn't really think anything of it because, uh, they told me years ago that I suffered from fibroids. So I mean not fibroids from migraines so I thought I was just having another migraine. I went on about my day. Um, that entire week was just so heavy. Sister was in a hospital on April the 13th, and so I was back and forth visiting her and just trying to make sure she was okay or whatever. So that week was just kind of really, really busy. I went to her house no, no, that was the 18th, the 19th. I went over my sister's house to visit her and I still had this headache. It wasn't better, but it wasn't worse, it was just. And I still had this headache. It wasn't better, but it wasn't worse, it was just like I just had a headache.
Speaker 1:I had an event that I was supposed to go to with a group called Sister Friends, and I think Tamika is going to be on here. Shout out to the Sister Friends. I'll talk about them in a little while as well. But I had this event that I was going to, and so I told my sister, my mom, my aunts I'm going to go home and lay down for a little while and then I'm going to get up and go to the event. I get home and I'm just going back and forth with should I go, like, do I feel like going, should I go? And so finally I said I'm going to get up and go the event. It was like a half a second away from where I live. So I go to this event and when I get there now mind y'all, wednesday I went to the hairdresser.
Speaker 1:Y'all know I got to always keep it cute, right. So I went to the hairdresser on Wednesday. I get to this event and it's really hot in there. So I'm just like it's a little hot in here, my hair going to sweat, like I'm not staying here that long because it's hot. So I go there and I'm mixing and I'm mingling with the sister friends. We're having a really good time.
Speaker 1:I even cut a two-step Like I'm dancing, really enjoying myself, and I'm standing there and I'm talking and while I'm standing there talking, it felt like my head started to like squeeze together. I didn't know what to do. Like I didn't know if I should say anything to anybody. So I'm just standing there, continuing to talk while I'm feeling like my head is squeezing together. At this point I'm thinking I need something to drink. So I bend down to pick up my ginger ale. And the next thing, I know, when I opened my eyes, I was on the floor. When I opened my eyes, everybody was standing around me and I'm just asking them like y'all, what happened? What just happened to me? And they told me I had a seizure. And I'm like what do you mean? Like I don't have seizures. Like what are you talking about? So they're telling me, like the ambulance is on the way, you know you're going to be okay. And I'm still asking, like what happened? And in my mind I'm just like I don't know what happened, but just keep talking. So I'm talking to them, I'm calling out telephone numbers. I'm just like call this person, call that person.
Speaker 1:And by this time, like my head is hurting, really, really bad. It was like the worst headache of my life. My head is hurting, my neck is hurting. The ambulance gets there and when they put me in the ambulance you know I'm telling them that my head is hurting we go to the hospital and they do a CAT scan. So when they do the CAT scan, they said it's positive. So in my mind I'm thinking, okay, my head is hurting, my neck is hurting, I must have meningitis. Like I'm thinking it's meningitis.
Speaker 1:Now just rewind back a little bit, when I passed out, when I opened my eyes. I'm not a drinker. Everybody knows I'm not a drinker. So I'm like somebody must have poisoned my gingerbread. Like these girls really wanted me to drink. They have to do all that.
Speaker 1:So they tell me that I have a bleed on my brain and I was just like what do you mean a bleed on my brain? They say, yeah, you have a bleed on your brain and we're going to have to fly you to another hospital for emergency surgery. So at this point, you know I'm sick, I'm starting to vomit, all of those things, but I'm waiting for them to fly me to another hospital. When, after they tell me that they I have a bleed on my brain, they're just like we have to wait for a flight medic to come, I'm like, oh okay, well, I'm thinking, you know, they're going to fly me out right away, because now I'm like my brain is bleeding out right away. Because now I'm like my brain is bleeding, they're going to fly me out right away. They could not find a flight medic, right? So they're like you know, if they don't come by this time, we're going to have to call an ambulance. If they don't come by this time, we'll have to call an ambulance. Mind you, my brain is bleeding. Have to call an ambulance. Mind you, my brain is bleeding.
Speaker 1:Me waiting a few minutes turned into the next day, and so the next day it probably was about 10 o'clock in the morning and they're like okay, listen, we didn't find a flight medic, we just want to get the ambulance to come and transport you. As the ambulance was coming in to transport me, the flight came, and so they were able to fly me over to the next hospital. And then, when they flew me over to the next hospital, I get there and I'm still waiting. My brain is bleeding, but I'm still waiting. They have to go through all of these things to do the surgery. And so finally, they do the surgery. But before they do it. They tell me, you know, once you have this surgery, you're going surgery, I'm in ICU and the next day, you know, they're like I'm going to have to go through physical therapy, I'm going to have to go through occupational therapy, speech therapy. They're saying that the side of my brain that the aneurysm was on it affects your speech, it affects your walking, your memory, all of those things On top of. They tell me that I'm going to have to spend two weeks at ICU and then I'll go to another unit for a little while and then I'll have to go to rehab.
Speaker 1:So in that moment, in the moment that they were telling me these things, I'm just like I need to call somebody because they need to bring me some body wash, they need to bring some shampoo, like they need to wrap my hair. I need to like, we need to get this together. I'm going to be my hair. I need to like, we need to get this together. If I'm going to be here, if I got to be here, we got to get this together. And I'm going to pause right there for a second and I'm going to go back a little bit because I need y'all to understand my whole purpose for doing this live is because I want people to understand the power of God.
Speaker 1:First of all, I'm sitting here telling y'all my story, right? The second thing is, when I went for my follow-up appointment and I talked to my surgeon, he said 80% of the people that have you have they don't make it through the ambulance ride. He said if you would have had a re-bleed while you were in the ambulance, you wouldn't be here. I need y'all to hear me. They got me to the first hospital and they couldn't find a flight. Medic, y'all hear what I'm saying. They couldn't find a flight for me. My brain is filled with blood. They couldn't find a flight for me. They didn't fly me to the next hospital until the next day. Fly me to the next hospital until the next day, and even the next day. I still had to wait. Once they flew me there, I still had to wait for them to do the surgery.
Speaker 1:In the midst of all of this, my blood and my brain is bleeding. Y'all, do y'all hear me? In the midst of all of this, I didn't have a re-bleed. I'm laying there. They're not working on me all night. They didn't do anything Like. I'm just laying there waiting to go to the next hospital and when I get to the next hospital they do the surgery.
Speaker 1:But I had to wait and even during the surgery they're like they thought I had a stroke when the people, when the nurses came and my nurse if she's available, she might jump on. But when, when the nurses came to wash me up, I said, oh, I could do it. And they said, ma'am, you don't understand. I said, no, I, I could do it, like I could wash me. I know how to wash me up. And he said you don't understand. You are the only person on this unit that's not on a ventilator. Nobody on this unit is talking back to us. You're the only person.
Speaker 1:So when I'm telling you all my story, it is because I need y'all to understand the power of God and what he can do and what he has. I'm sitting here Listen, there are so many people that have gone through what I've gone through and they've had to have craniotomies. Look, I'm going to show you my hair. They didn't have to cut my hair open or nothing. None of those things. None of those things happen. And I'm sitting here having this conversation with you all. None of those things happen. And I'm sitting here having this conversation with you all. I'm going to bring Pastor Tanya to the stage and I want you to understand, like when you are going through situations when you are Calling yourself, having friends and having circles and all of those things, you need to be able to have people around you that can intercede on your behalf. You need to have people around you that's going to pray with you and for you and you need to have people that can hear your heart. I'm going to bring Pastor Tanya to the stage and then we're going to finish this conversation. Hello, Pastor Tonya, thank you so much for joining me. It's an honor to have you here. I want you to understand.
Speaker 1:I have known Pastor Tonya since my entire life. We grew up around the same neighborhood, so my entire 45 years I have known this woman. Since I was able to to walk and talk and um, you know, watch the big girls that's what I called them around our neighborhood. I was literally the big girls. I always wanted to be outside with the big girls, but I admired this woman so much.
Speaker 1:And let me tell y'all, when they say, call on the elders or call on people to pray for you, I called Pastor T. I don't even know if I called her or if I texted, but she and her husband, pastor Jody, they were on vacation and she says I'm coming, and she came to the hospital, y'all, and she didn't even go home from that. I don't even know if. I don't know if she talked to family, I don't know if she was able to get herself together, but I know that she came from the airport to the hospital to hold my hand and to pray with me. And when I tell you, those are the type of people that you need in your circle, those are the type of people that you need to show up for you. Thank you so much, vesity.
Speaker 3:Listen, I'm honored and just listening to your story I don't know who wouldn't want to serve a God like ours. I don't know. I do know this that it is much work to be done because there are people who don't know the God that we know. And there are people who overlook what you went through and not connected to a healing God, a great God a loving God a forgiving God all of that, and I didn't know what was going on with you.
Speaker 3:I had no idea, right. All I heard God say was to pray. He said he said to pray, to intercede regardless, and then he would tell me. So he started showing me little pieces, while I was on vacation, what was going on with you, so that I can be very strategic in my prayers, right? And so when you reached out to me, I had been up all night interceding. My husband was asleep and I was just interceding for you. And I picked up my phone and it had been three o'clock in the morning and I had a message from you.
Speaker 3:I had a message from you to say, sis, come. And as sure as I'm talking to you, I know that I heard from God and I told my husband we had a whole bunch of things that we needed to do Once we got off the plane. We had to go to the church and everything. I say it is imperative that we don't delay what we had to do. We had to go straight there and come see you and to lay our eyes on you, because there was an attack coming. There was a second bleed coming, there was a second bleed coming, there was something that the enemy was trying to do, and so I was so grateful that we had an earlier flight because we were able, with our prayers, stop with the. I saw what the enemy was trying to do in this bed round. I saw it, and so God said don't you pass, go. I didn't even want to get my luggage, I wanted to go straight to the hospital, and that's exactly what we did, and so you know, I came. I'm your friend, I'm your big sister, we're family.
Speaker 3:But as a pastor, my assignment is not just in the on the pulpit, it really is. We've got to get outside of the walls of the church and go to the people, and so this is something that my husband and I have been doing for years. Before we even started our own church, we were the ones that were going to check on the elders and the seasoned saints and at the hospital and the funerals, and all this is something that we did. This is what we live by. So, for family, of course I'm going to be there. Of course I'm going to be obedient to God. We have got to start being sensitive to God's voice and obedient to him. So when he tell us to do something, not just hear it but act on it, because lives are attached to that.
Speaker 3:I saw what the enemy was trying to do in your life. I say, oh, not on my watch, oh, not on my watch, it's so important. Oh, it's so important. When that man that was in that bed, he was trying to get to Jesus and there was no way for them to get him there, they kept him in a bed. His friends brought him up up on a stage, up on the stairs, and they lower him down in the room with all the people and he got healed, not because of his face, he was healed because of his friend's faith, those guys that took him there. So it is very important who we have in our life. Don't just say I have a bunch of friends and a bunch of family. No, I need somebody that's going to get me to Jesus.
Speaker 1:Come on.
Speaker 3:I need somebody that's going to get me to Jesus. Come on, I need somebody that's going to get me to Jesus. I need someone that their faith is going to heal me. Those are the people that I need to be around. Those are the people. So it's time out to say I have all of these five nickels. Give me one quarter any day.
Speaker 1:I don't need a lot of people.
Speaker 3:I know a lot of people and I love everybody, but it's very few people that I know for a fact that is interceding and on the wall for me Very, very few. And so, yes, you called on me and I had already heard from God. I had already heard from God. When was the first time you and I went to lunch or dinner together? Was the first time you and I went to lunch or dinner together? Answer that have we ever been to lunch or to dinner, have we? We've never had. We never had. We grew up together and years went by, but we still stay connected through social media and all of that, but I'm still intentionally praying for those individuals I am. I don't have to hang out with you.
Speaker 3:I don't have to say that's my BFF, I don't. We got to stop all of that. We are on kingdom assignment.
Speaker 1:Come on.
Speaker 1:We are on kingdom assignment Come on, and I have to talk about and I have to shout out our sister, dr Kim Lee, because I called on her as well. And when I say that, as a praying woman, I called on her as well, and what I didn't call on her, my sister reached out to her. And when I say she would FaceTime me and pray with me, those are the type of people that you it doesn't matter that you know, you know a lot of people, or that you know you are on this platform or that platform. You know a lot of people, or that you are on this platform or that platform, it doesn't matter that she has done makeup for a whole bunch of celebrities and stars. When I called on my sister, she was there.
Speaker 3:She's going to be there.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, when I called on you, you were there. Those are the type of people that you need in your circle. All this social media, these sisters, this hey girl, listen, if these hey girls can't pray for me or with real intercede on my behalf, I don't really know that I need to be in that circle, because in that moment when I couldn't pray for myself, in that moment when I don't even know that I could speak or say a whole lot to you, but you are my heart.
Speaker 3:I did. I did because we it's the, we serve the same God and there's no distant in the spirit. We were on vacation and I was still interceding, still intercepting what the enemy was trying to do, not even knowing that there was delay and delay and delay. I didn't know the story, I didn't know it, but what really blessed me is when you got up and walked in front of me I said, oh yeah, that's it, devil. Oh, that's it. This, this, this, this is what I came here for, this, this is what I came. I came to see God at work. I came to see this and you have no idea, because that's what I was praying for, I said, oh, that's it. Oh, she's getting up and walk. Oh yeah, this is oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, I've been in the health care industry for over 30 years. I've seen patients like you, I've seen the flip side of all of this. So I know the power of prayer, the flip side and all of this, and so I know the power of prayer, I know the power of prayer. But you know, ella, you have been serving so consistent, and so there are times where you know, some can be ruled out on a technicality, that we don't qualify for these manifested prayers right, and so I play it to God. Like God, she deserves this. There's more to her Purpose cannot be stopped.
Speaker 3:She has not finished fulfilling her assignments. This cannot be the end. If she wanted to be the end, then it'll be the end, but this cannot be the end. So I'm going to hold up her arms. Aaron Moses, when you couldn't do it yourself and I was genuine about it I didn't put on nobody to say I had our church praying for you. Every time we got on live, we called out your name. We had the individuals praying for you. Every time we got on live, we called out your name.
Speaker 3:You know we had the individuals praying for you, and that's what it takes. It really does take. It takes faith in your prayers. It really does. I've been listening, I've been so through so many health challenges, so I know what to stand on. I do. I know we have to stand on the word of God. We have to stand on the word of God and to stand on the word of God. And let me give you this real quick, because I wanted to talk a little bit about faith when we're going through a storm. Right, I want to talk about faith when we're going through the storm. Faith is a belief and trust in something, often without complete proof, like I don't have to see you walking to know that God will heal you because I have faith in God's word. Right, that can be based on a person, duty or belief. Faith is defined as a relationship with God. We got to have a relationship with God it's so important to have a relationship with God.
Speaker 3:Had I not had a relationship with God, I wouldn't have heard him say to intercede for you and to go up to the hospital, had I not had a relationship with God, right and confidence and the belief that God will fulfill his promises. We did a Bible study series a couple of months ago about the promises of God. God promised you that you are healed already healed by his stripes. You are healed. That is a promise of God, and so we have got to start standing on the promises of God. How do I stand on the promises of God? Through faith, through faith oh, pass the tea. I don't know if I have faith with. The word says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So that is how you get faith you have to hear the word of God. The longer you hear the word of God, the bigger your faith muscles get. Okay, technicality, don't worry about them, just let me. Let me just keep flowing. And you know, hebrews 11, one says that now, faith is the assurance. So you have to know something.
Speaker 3:You have to know something. It's the assurance of hope for the conviction of things not seen. Because I don't see it doesn't mean it, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:We don't see the air that we breathe, but it's there. That is exactly how faith is.
Speaker 2:That is.
Speaker 3:So I just come on here to really encourage everyone that is watching or that will go back to watch to stand on the word of God. Stand on the word of God through faith. Faith gives you access to all of the promises of God, all of them, all of the promises of God. That's what faith does. So stand on his word, be encouraged in this word. Romans 10, 17 says so. Then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. You've got to continue to deposit the word of God because, guess what? There's an evil day attached to all of our names. There's an evil day attached to all of our names. It really is, and so we have got to be built up before the storm. You were built up before the storm. You didn't just start praying and start talking to God when you were in ICU, when you were on the floor, and you know what Pastor Tanya?
Speaker 1:I tell everybody. Even when they told me my brain was bleeding, I was never afraid. I was never worried, I was never afraid I prayed but that was it.
Speaker 1:When they said you're going to be here for two weeks, you're going to be here, I see you for two weeks, I said, alright, I need this, I need that. I need y'all to come grab my hair. Y'all need to bring my body wash. Make sure you get my like. I was okay, my spirit was okay. When they say a peace that surpasses all. I didn't understand none of that. I didn't understand it, but I. I didn't understand it, but I was like, okay, I gotta be here.
Speaker 3:Okay, you were built for it. You were in his show because so many people. The scripture says that if you fall to pieces in the time of trouble, there wasn't nothing in you in the first place. So I always can identify someone who isn't built up in the word because they trip out over the smallest things, over the biggest things, is because there's nothing inside of you to stand on. You already had peace. You were already built up. The evil day was already planned. On that day, that attack, it was already, but you were already prepared for the attack. You cannot build a house in a storm. You just cannot do it. And so I encourage everyone to be built up for that evil day, because the bible says that you will have trials and tribulations. It already tells us that. I'm not speaking it on, I'm just telling you what the word says. And so if we're not built up, you could have been one of the 80% of the people.
Speaker 1:My God, my.
Speaker 3:God, you could have been one of the 80% that same ICU about seven or maybe 10 years ago. My cousin was in. He was on an ECMO machine. Dr Mike Freeman was on an ECMO machine. He was the 10th person in that same ICU same one. You were in on an ECMO machine. Guess how many people passed. Nine of them died. He was the only one in that ICU on that ECMO machine that survived. Why?
Speaker 2:Because he was already built up.
Speaker 3:Before that attack he was already built up. So if no one take anything away from tonight's broadcast is to build yourself up before that storm hit. Build yourself up like never before. There is a dark day that is going on right now in these United States. It is a dark day that is going on right now in these United States. It is just going to get worse. So we as the believers, we as the body of Christ, have to be built up or we're going to fall to pieces like never before.
Speaker 3:How do we get built up? You have to have a prayer life. You have to have a prayer life. You have to have a prayer life. You have to have a prayer life. I'm not talking about quoting a bunch of scriptures, going to church Sunday after Sunday, wednesday. I'm not saying that. I'm saying you have to have a prayer life. How do I pray? Life is just you communicating with God, him communicating with you. That is a relationship. You're not in a marriage or relationship with your kids or your significant other and you don't talk to them. If someone that you were in a relationship didn't talk to you for a few days a week or whatever, you have to question if you're really in a relationship with them. That is what God wants for us. He wants us to talk to him daily. There shouldn't be a day that we don't go by and not talk to God. Yes, we got to have a prayer life. We really do. We got to be sensitive to his voice. We have to be sensitive to his voice.
Speaker 1:One thing Pastor Jodi said. I didn't even know that I said and he reminded me of. He said I knew that you had faith because when you all were at the hospital he told me that I said when I get out of here I don't remember saying that. I don't remember saying that.
Speaker 1:But, I knew. I knew that that was not it for me. I knew that I was going home. I knew that there was more work to be done, but, more importantly, I knew my God. He brought me through so many other things Like why would he not bring me through this? Why would he not? And you know, people have said, you know why, you, why not me? Who am I that this can't happen to me? My prayer, because I'm intentional in prayer, my prayer every day is God, use me for the building of your kingdom and to show others your goodness and your mercy. So how can I be mad when he used me? When I get used Now, god, I didn't know it was going to be like this Slow down.
Speaker 1:Yes get used Now. God, I didn't know it was going to be like this. I didn't know that I was going to have to take a $17,000 helicopter ride, but I'm just so full and I'm just so thankful and I'm so blessed and again, I'm so blessed to have a circle of people that I know that I can call, because I say this without arrogance, I say this with the most humility, but everybody can't pray for me.
Speaker 3:No, Everybody can't pray for me. We talked about this last night on Bible study.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:You just don't want everybody. I'm not going to let anybody lay hands on me and I'm not going to let everybody pray for me. It's just you got to use some discernment and hear from God. Like I said, be sensitive to his voice. You knew who to call and Kim Lee was definitely one of them people. It's a Rochelle Wilson.
Speaker 1:I reached out to them as well because, again, I know who to call on, I know who knows how to. How did the elder say send up some timber for me. There's still enough for me, please. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Again, I'm so thankful, I'm so happy. The last thing that I'm going to say before I get off when I walked into your room, I knew that God was there. How did I know God was there? Because his word was there. How did I know God was there? Because his word was there, his word.
Speaker 3:Your sister had put all of the word and the scriptures up on that wall. I knew for a fact you were in good hands. I just knew it. That was before you even got up and walked. I just knew it. I'm like, oh, the word is here. That means God is here Whenever you see the word, because the word is God, he, he's there.
Speaker 3:So there was nothing but the manifestation of healing that had to take place, and I pray that a lot of the other nurses grab the hold of that so that they can be, you know, speaking life over their other patients and stuff, and not because you were the only one that was able to do this and that, because if they speak the life to them, then they would be able to do that. You had had already had life in you, so it had to come out, and so I just bless God for your sister who just knew automatically, you know, let me put the word around her. So when she opened up that one eye or those two eyes or something, or every time a nurse come in, because whomever come in there, they got to read it.
Speaker 2:Even if they never say anything.
Speaker 3:They're going to read it because they're curious, oh, and so they're reading it, and so you were just full with the word around you. So I bless God for that, but just keep doing what you're doing. Keep fulfilling purpose.
Speaker 3:You know you, the enemy is big mad big mad, which is why he had to attack you, because you are purpose driven. You are purpose driven and at the end of every day you're going to give God his glory. And so the enemy say well, let me take this one out, because she's too connected to God. She's sitting up here doing her thing and you know five boys, everything. You know all of this.
Speaker 3:Let me, let me go ahead and try her. And God said uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, nouh, no. And you said, just like Job, though you slay me yet, will I trust you? Yes, will I trust you, and so continue to keep his word in your mouth and live a life of godliness. I love you. I'm so proud of you. I love you so much.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, and we do still have to do our lunch. I just want to say that the 19th will be my three month anniversary, so three months since my rupture, and I just praise God so much because I'm still here and I will continue to bring things to his name. I will continue to tell people of his goodness and his mercy. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3:Love you, thank you, thank you. All right, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:So that was Pastor Tanya, that was my sister, pastor Tanya, I am now going to bring my sister, fatima, to the stage wall. I just want you all to hear from her just a little bit of her experience and then for people that are going through situations where they have, you know, they may be experiencing illness or whatever the case may be just to hear how and your family can support you, just to hear how your family can uplift you and just be there for you. I encourage anybody on this live or that's listening to this broadcast that if you have to be a caretaker for a family member or a friend or a spouse or a child or whomever, just give people grace because you don't understand what they're going through. Give people grace because you don't understand what they're going through. Let people know that you're there for them. Let people know that you're going to help them, that you're going to see them through no-transcript. They suffer.
Speaker 1:So I want to bring my sister to the stage just to hear from her a little bit. And then I see my sharing us on here Tamika and BJ, I think they're on here and I want to bring them up as well. And then we're going to hear from another aneurysm survivor. So I'm going to bring my sister to the stage. Are you here? I am, I am. Good afternoon everyone. I'm here. So I just wanted to thank you, thank you. Thank you so much for being there, for being my sister, for stepping in, and I just wanted to, you know, just just to say I love you so much because you went hard for me, girl. You went hard for me and I just appreciate it. I love you so much. I wanted to ask you, um, what was it like for you? And then, on the end, when I was able to come home, because you still had to show up but you didn't, you didn't have to let me say that you did not have to, but you did. And so, um, I just wanted to hear from you. So, um, when I got the call on April the 19th from one of the sister friends and actually I didn't get the call my phone kept ringing. It was you and I was on the phone with my son, who's incarcerated, and I said this yo-yo calling me. So normally, when I text you and say I'm going to call you back, I'm talking to Q. You say okay, or something. So I said I'm going to call you back. I'm talking to Q. You say okay or something. So I said I'm going to call you back. Yo, I'm talking to Q. And you didn't respond. But then the phone rang again. I said I just sold this girl. I'm talking to Q, I'm going to call her back. Phone rang again. I said Q, this yo calling me. By that time the phone had hung up.
Speaker 1:Mom come running in my room and said Ella just passed out. Somebody on the phone. Ella passed out. I said, oh my goodness. So I got the phone from her and I asked. I said well, where is she? I knew that you had the event that night. You said you had a headache earlier. You were gonna go home and lay down and then you was gonna get ready for the event. So the um, I can't even remember her name, but oh my gosh, she was such a blessing, a godsend. She stayed on that phone the entire time.
Speaker 1:She said I'm right here with her, the ambulance is here. So I gave her a play by play where I was, and I could hear her telling you your sister's coming. Well, she actually thought I was mom, because she called my phone. She said your mother's on the way, she's at the light, she's turning in. So when I actually got there, and I mean when I heard it, I was like, oh my God, I said this hasn't happened since high school, you know. So I'm like what's going on? But my thing was um, and I was running in my pain because I had just had surgery but.
Speaker 1:I needed to get there to see you. I you know I'm I'm one of those type people. I can't take word from everybody else. I need to be there to see it myself.
Speaker 1:So, I said, oh my God, my sister again. So I get there, I jump up in the ambulance and I say, yo, I'm here. You kept saying my head hurt, my head hurt. So they were, you know, doing your vitals and doing everything, told me you know that I had to get out of the ambulance. Mind you, I had to get help jumping down from Tamika because I had just, you know, because I had a standing as well. But I say all of that to say that God is good. I mean, god is good.
Speaker 1:I can't even put into words the way I actually felt watching you go through everything that you went through, go through everything that you went through, when they told me that you had an ACOM aneurysm that ruptured, you were going to be in ICU for two weeks. I said, oh my God. And then they said the first week is the most critical. The first couple of days. They said we encourage visitors. So I'm like, well, she got to be here this long. Let me put it out there to her friends, let me reach out to, to you know, the people that I know, that she's close to that, love her and care for, like you say, our prayer circle.
Speaker 1:I had to reach out to people, because I'm like, you know, I felt like that's what you needed at the time, um, and I also said, um, we got to put some scriptures around this, around this room. We're gonna put pictures up, you know, um, but I, I just had, I just had to be there for you and I mean I contributed to the way that we were raised. They always say you're the oldest and it's a packing order, and you're the oldest for a reason. So I knew I had to be there, you know, but through it all I can say I mean your strength. It amazed me day by day, when I came in there and the nurse had told me. She said it was another patient that had the same type of aneurysm that you had.
Speaker 1:Y'all came in the same day and this lady had a stroke. She said she has no mobility on one side of her body and she's not even talking. So that showed me really how critical your situation was. But I said you know what? God is an awesome god. I plead the blood over my sister. I said she's gonna be well, she's gonna be well.
Speaker 1:And then when I came that next day and you said, told the nurse, uh-uh, you're not. Uh-uh, fatima gonna wash me up I said what, that's what these people getting paid for? And you were so persistent. I said, okay, I got this. Not that I ain't seen you before, but I was like, okay, I got this. And then when I came another day and you said bring shampoo, they going to wash my hair. I said what? How? They going to wash your hair? These people just put a coil or something in your head. You got all this stuff going on and you want your hair washed. I said, yeah, you need to get out of this bed and let somebody that's sick get in this bed. It's time for you to come home. But yeah, I mean it's just amazing how God works. And I mean, you know, and, like I said, just running in my pain. He sustained me enough to be there for you and sustained you enough to be there for me, you know.
Speaker 1:So he gives you what you need when you need it. I think a lot of people didn't know, or maybe they did know, but like that week, we both were just sick, like we were there for each other. We were trying to support each other and encourage one another and it wasn't the easiest. I cannot imagine what mom was going through. I can't imagine because you know her, her, both of her daughters, in the hospital. You know she's trying to be here, but this one, she lives in South Carolina. She got to come back and pull all those things and so again, I just I can't thank God enough, just for the family that we have.
Speaker 1:I can't thank God enough for the strength that he that he gives us daily. You know the word he gives us is our daily bread. I thank God for the daily bread that he gives us because you know, oh my God, had it not been for him, had it not been for him, I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful. I'm going to add BJ and Tamika also, because I do want to shout out the sister friends and them and just how I know.
Speaker 1:let me ask them. They were right there the entire time. Oh, my goodness, they bought me your boots, your glasses, your everything. No, not the glasses and the jacket. I think I'm going to wear it before we return what I don't even know what jacket.
Speaker 1:You said you had my jacket. I still don't even know what jacket. I think I'm going to wear it before we return what I don't even know what jacket. When you said you had my jacket, I was like I still don't even know what jacket. Don't worry, thank you so much. When I say God knows who to send, he's intentional about who to send.
Speaker 1:And when I wasn't even coming to the event, I said that a few times I was not even coming to the event. I said that, you know, a few times I was not even coming. I was like I'm just tired. I was so tired and I just couldn't get myself together. I was tired. I didn't know then that the day before, when I had the headache behind my eye, it was what they call a sentinel drip. So my brain actually dripped the day before and that's why I was so tired. And when I was standing there and when, when I felt the pressure and I felt like my head was squeezing together, when I had the seizure, that was the rupture. Um bj, I was standing there talking to you and my sharon and listen y'allall. I cut a step, I danced, all of that stuff and I had no idea In the middle of like we had just clapped it up for you winning the award and we was.
Speaker 1:You know, it was just a regular day, still trying, like so many calls came in. First of all, let me just say thank you to every sister friend that was there. The entire space erupted in prayer. We were so calm, like nobody was frantic, everybody. It was just like lo and behold, would you believe that was a friday. Was that a friday? I think it was a friday. It was a friday. Yeah, that morning I had just completed my cpr training.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And this is why I say God is intentional, because, remember, I said earlier that when I had fibroids I used to pass out all the time, right, and so God knew that I needed to get up out of that bed and out of the house and I needed to go around people, because if I was in the house I would not have called an ambulance, I would have just thought I passed out, I'm going to sleep it off and I'll be okay. But God knew that I needed to be in that space because he knew what was going to happen. He knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 2:Look, sis, I couldn't wait for this, right, I couldn't wait for this moment here, the entire time since April 19th, All I was saying was you know man, you big God, big God big. God, I can't wait for you to get back on here to tell this story, this testimony, so other people can see it and know that God is real. So I'm just so geeked up, I'm kind of speechless. I'm just like man, I'm just happy to see you right here, speechless.
Speaker 1:And when I say say I don't. First of all I was like okay, when I, when I opened my eyes, I was like, okay, so these girls want me to drink, like I don't want poison to drink, y'all. Now I don't drink nothing and I kept saying somebody poisoned my ginger ale. I kept saying that and they thought I was crazy. I was like somebody poisoned my ginger ale, they wanted me to drink and that was just in joking. But the one thing that I'm so thankful to God for is when I open my eyes. The worst is when two or three are gathered there. I will be in the midst of them. When I tell you, when I open my eyes, the first thing I said was Mika, what happened to me? I was like what happened?
Speaker 2:God, I was like what happened.
Speaker 1:God was dead. Yo, oh, he was dead. I'm telling you because everybody, I heard everybody praying.
Speaker 2:I heard people praying. It was the calmness. Like Mika said, I knew God was dead. From the calmness it was like, oh, this is happening, she's going to be okay, let's get the prayers in, call the people to come get her and we're going to just make sure she good. And I'm going to tell you what? I'm going to tell you what you got. You got hundreds of angels fighting for you, but you got another living angel. You got another mother, because my mother, Joe.
Speaker 1:I was standing in front of your mother. I asked her, because then they kept calling like how's your friend, what's going on? Any updates?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they kept calling like how's your friend? What's going on? Any updates? Call after call, I was like look, thema, please update the group, because I don't want to say anything that I know. I want to make sure that people know that we have the approval of Ella, her family, that they're okay with Lisa. Because let me tell you something else that happened Not one word.
Speaker 1:When I say safe space, what happens here stays here, was exactly what happened the following days in our private group. Everybody just was like how is she doing? How is she doing? Nobody ever said, well, well, this is what happened. Did you see? Not one video was posted, not one. I mean, it was just like god, confirmation, what I desire is happening. It's happening, god, and I thank you and and really like it couldn't have happened to anyone else and god, get the praise that he get, that he gets from you. It has to be you, my god, my god.
Speaker 1:And when I say I seen johnson when he wanted to sister friends. But johnson and I we went to school, middle school, together. We have been friends for years. And she said I have never prayed like for years. And she said I have never prayed like that in my life. She said I actually didn't know where it came from. It was just coming out. God was definitely at work. When I say I am so full and so thankful for the sister friends because y'all showed up. Y'all showed up and I kept telling Fatima call Mika, where is Mika? I'm looking for you. Where is my girl Call Mika, where is she? I needed to make sure that she knew the love that I have for the sister friends. I needed to make sure that she knew Absolutely. And I knew. I know I've been sick, I've been in the hospital and the first thing I go to is like how is my hair looking before anybody comes. So we went and he was like he actually picked out the hat.
Speaker 2:I was going to see if she was going to say yeah.
Speaker 1:He picked out the hat and it was just like right on time. What did it say? No bad day, yes, no bad day. No bad day, no bad day, perfect hat. And I know it was gonna come right on time. Um, I'm, I'm again. I'm just so thankful, you know, for the people.
Speaker 1:There were so many people that came to the hospital and I knew like I was so excited y'all don't understand like I was so excited, like God, like I'm still here and just like I gotta see this person, that person. But at the same time, like my pressure was going up and you know, then it was dropping and they were like, listen, you just gotta stay calm because you know the, the like they said, the few days, um, the first few days, were really critical because they wanted to make sure that I didn't have what's called vasospasms, where I would have spasms in my brain and it would start bleeding again. But I was like I can't be still, like I can't, like y'all know these people praying for me, like do y'all know the people that I know? Like do y'all know the love that I have for me? Like I couldn't be still but they had to, like you know, limit the visits and all of that stuff. Again, I'm so thankful, I'm so thankful.
Speaker 2:Man, I feel so good seeing you right here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bj, your mother. I was standing there talking to her oh yeah, and I was like I cannot imagine.
Speaker 1:And I kept telling them. I said, y'all, they caught the ambulance with somebody else. They thought I was going crazy. I was like, no, I heard them say it was another ambulance and they really thought I was going crazy. I wasn't losing my mind. Nah, it was for my mama. Please tell her. Tell her, because she thought that I was going crazy. No, it was, it was. Yeah, I kept telling her. I said yo, it was you. You passed out. It was nobody else, you passed out. Yeah, it definitely was a trigger for my mother.
Speaker 2:It triggered her and she was trying to look the ambulance off. I said, nah, it's her right there, Go see her Go get her, oh my.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and even after, um, yeah, after you left the way we were able to carry on and and knew that you were going to be fine, I'm telling you hey, look, nothing, it was a weird it was a surreal feeling like it's even this, even right now.
Speaker 2:It was just so surreal to know that. Nah, she good, this is just part of her story. Like we had just had a deep conversation, you and I, about. You know what it was like. We're going to crank this joint out on Wednesdays, big God, big God. So it was like, okay, I'm going to give you something to stand on.
Speaker 2:You already had all of these other things go on in your life, but ain't nothing like that right now. So to be right now going through this, giving her the good praise, getting these testimonies in understanding the power of prayer.
Speaker 1:I do want to make sure that we add Nicole, nicole Cunningham. She is a nurse, she's a nurse, she was just like.
Speaker 2:Johnny on the spot.
Speaker 1:Everybody. Just step back, just pray. I got it Like she was down on the. I mean, it's so many people that was Tasha that you was on the phone with that was calling. We gave Tasha the phone and from that situation happening, we have changed how we do things. We definitely have an event. We need an emergency contact. We had everybody. We had videos. We posted videos in our private group of how to set up your emergency contacts. So even if your phone is locked, we can get to your emergency contacts. So there were so many lessons learned that night. Like sis, you are so blessed.
Speaker 2:You like that.
Speaker 1:So blessed, Like the way God is using you. You are the testimony.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no doubt my God.
Speaker 1:I'm so thankful, I'm so thankful and I'm so blessed Again just to be surrounded by people who know how to pray. And I said this before on lives when people say pray for me, that does not mean pray. Oh, I'm going to pray for this person. I get home. Well, I'm going to put them on a premise you got to pray in that moment.
Speaker 2:Let me get that.
Speaker 1:People need to pray and then when they ask for it, they need it in that moment. It's not later on or Sunday when I get to church, or next week in the Bible study, like when somebody say, pray for me. You never know what they are going through. You never know what they need in that moment. I'm so glad y'all prayed for me. I'm so glad. I want people to know the courage that it takes to muster up to even ask somebody something like that.
Speaker 1:So when somebody builds that courage up and they ask you to pray for them, I don't need to know why. God just interested, like like, step in, take over over, have your way, have your will, that is it, and then you can go on about your business. Leave it right there, my God, I'm so full Shout out to the sister friends and my Sharon, because I can't imagine.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I even asked her like what happened. I said I don't know what did I do. I thought I went to go pick up my ginger. Ale she said you took a step and you failed and I was just like I didn't know.
Speaker 1:All I know was that I was standing there talking to her. We had just took that picture, bj, the three of us and I was standing there talking to her and my head just felt like it was going like this, yeah, and then it was like a pop. The pop was. We was like did she have it? Was she okay earlier? Did she complain? Because we just did not know what had happened. You were conscious the whole time. You would not answer us, but then you would come to and you would be like call Keith. He was like I'm like, whatever that happens, she's talking, so keep it, I'll continue to pray, continue to pray. I just kept saying. I said if I keep talking, I know I'm okay. And so I was like call this person, I'm calling now Telephone number. So I was like okay, my memory's good, you knew the phone number.
Speaker 1:You was like I'm so nervous. I'm like I can't. I can't catch the numbers, I can't catch it. Hey, let me, I was like call this number, call that number, just like call, call somebody.
Speaker 2:Let me give you something. So I was going to hold it and just not say it right. So we got to praise God and shame the devil in the moment. So I ain't going to hold it in. The reason why moms really was trigger triggered is that was the same night, one year back, that my sister passed away. So in the middle of the conversation that you having with her, I just happened to take a V-line walk and as I'm walking, that happened in front of my mother. I'm telling you the trigger was real man and the devil attempted to get in that room and God looked at you and was like, oh no, I got that. So, man, I just want to, you know, praise God. Thank God for you. Thank God for showing up. Yes, you know, thank. Thank God for giving the strength to everybody that was there, strength to my mama, just to get through it. Look at you now.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, when I say mom would text me and call me, oh my gosh. When I say I love her so, so, so much, because she was definitely, or she definitely is, a mother to me, like she texts me now, you know, and she'll say I'm not texting, I'm calling, and she's been calling. I am so blessed to have gained another mother. God always know what we need when we need it. He was intentional. It wasn't a coincidence that I was standing there talking to her. I was talking to her and a lot of people may not know, but the 19th is also my dad's death date. Wow, and my little cousin, slash son the 19th.
Speaker 2:And that was.
Speaker 1:Anita's birthday. It was just like yeah who said I'm going to make this day great, y'all got to get out of there. I'm going to make this day great. I'm going to show y'all how I can turn the 19th around, like, what are y'all doing? We ain't here for this. So now the 19th, which is is in three days, even though it's going to be two years for my little cousin, slash son and my dad the 19th, but the 19th this Friday, is it the 19th? It will be three months since my anger burst, three months since my rupture Three months, what we?
Speaker 1:doing. We're not going to want the honey, we're not going to go to the honey, we're not going to go to the honey and I don't want no ginger ale Wherever you at.
Speaker 2:I want to pull up. Let's go eat something, Absolutely. It's been three months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, three months, and look at you it's like looking at us and and Tima and all the things.
Speaker 2:Tima, if you have done something.
Speaker 1:So she was in the hospital on the 13th, which is my dad's birthday. April 13th is my dad's birthday. He was all I know. He was like these are my daughters. Blah, blah, blah. You got to fix this, you got to work it out. Mom said she wanted to be there too on the 19th. Absolutely, she made my her daughter move out with me. J, she made me come to her quarter. Sorry, sir.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you. Pastor Tony said no residue. I said that I made a post shortly after I had come out of the hospital and I said I felt like Meshack, shadrach and Abednego, like I was all in the fire and I come. People probably thought because y'all know how you know we are, people want to see, they want to know what happened. I want to see what she looked like.
Speaker 1:Babe, let me take this last time so y'all can get into it. Get into it. Let me move my head back to y'all. I love it. I love it. I'm just saying. I'm just saying in the greatness of god, because I didn't have to have a craniotomy, like they didn't have to open my head, they went in through my groin and then they went in through my wrist. It's a little. Y'all can't even see this little, tiny, little dot right there. They went in through my wrist for my second procedure. They fixed my aneurysm through my groin. That's what I'm trying to tell y'all. The power of God and what he could do. It don't take much. Don't take much. It don't take much. It don't take much to say a prayer. It doesn't take much for him to hear you. It doesn't take much for him to bless you. All you have to do is call on his name.
Speaker 1:I'm telling y'all the goodness and the greatness and the power of God. That's what this live was all about. It was just to encourage somebody, because now somebody is going to pray a little bit harder, now somebody's going to have the courage to tell their story because I tell people all the time, god can't use it if it's a secret.
Speaker 2:Now, somebody's going to believe. Somebody's going to believe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, somebody is going to be supported, somebody's going to be loved on a little bit more, somebody, whoever is going through and has to be a caregiver. They want to care for their family members a little bit more. This was so necessary. I told my family and they probably thought I was crazy. I said this had to happen. Mm-hmm, it had to happen. I told you too, mika. I said this had to happen, not just for me, but for the people around me.
Speaker 1:This had to happen, yeah let me say this and our calls like a few days after. I'm on the phone, I'm crying, I'm falling apart and you're hurting me.
Speaker 2:That's what she told me.
Speaker 1:I'm like God, get me together before I place this phone call. I wasn't going to text you or call you. I FaceTimed you. I needed you to mean what God did for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're grateful for you allowing God to use you, for you, to share your testimony with us. I shared this live into Sister Friends, so I hope they're listening and I'm just grateful for that whole community. Thank y'all for going on the behalf of my good, good girlfriend. Thank you so much. So many things was revealed that night and it's gratitude, big God, gratitude for big God.
Speaker 2:No question.
Speaker 1:Yes indeed, yes indeed. I want to shout out my cousins, you know my family members that came. My mom, my mother, was sick at the hospital, y'all. I'm talking about my girl putting 10 hours Like she was getting paid.
Speaker 2:My girl didn't know I was going to clock out.
Speaker 1:She sat there for hours and hours and hours. My children that came, my cousin Tony y'all. He probably sat there for a good maybe five or six hours. I didn't even know he was there. Please give your mom a hug for me. I will definitely. You know I'm her favorite too.
Speaker 1:You got my mom there you are All of my friends that came to the hospital. It was so many people, um, that showed up. They showed up for me, and I'm just so thankful and I'm so blessed that I am still here. I'm so thankful that people chose to give me my flowers while I'm still here.
Speaker 1:Um, it could have been another way, but god but god but for somebody, um, that's watching this, I I want you to stay encouraged. I had another guest I was going to be on here, um, angie, she also had an aneurysm and she actually did have to have a craniotomy and we'll do a live another time where she could tell her story, but I'm so thankful to God that she's still here to tell her story. Now, listen, I didn't have to have a craniotomy and I'm just like, okay, I don't know about flying, like you know, just, and this girl is trapped, she's all over the world Like she's cross country, and I'm just like and she has a stint and oh my gosh, I'm just like Come on, God.
Speaker 2:It's just the power of God.
Speaker 1:I love y'all so so much I love you too. I can't thank y'all enough. My sister, when I tell y'all she held it down. Even when I came home that girl would come to my house at 5 o'clock in the morning, 6 o'clock in the morning, to be with me.
Speaker 2:The people told me to put a camera in my house, y'all they need to see what I'm doing.
Speaker 3:Y'all not going to put no camera in my house now.
Speaker 1:He didn't need to be by her side he didn't need to be by her side. That's right. Again, I'm so thankful to God. We're definitely going to do this again. Bj, the one thing that I did think about when I was in the hospital, probably the third day, I was saying to myself you, I was saying to myself, if BJ was on Wednesdays, he could have kept it going. So we're going to have this conversation Because we got to keep this going. I didn't know he was gone.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that's so true.
Speaker 1:He definitely got a word for the man and I heard it, so I know the pain. I don't need to hear it Absolutely. And we still got to do y'all part two. So y'all thought, y'all was going to get out of see what y'all thought had happened was. Y'all was going to get out of that part two.
Speaker 2:She said this is our part two. This is our part two, right here y'all stuck with me.
Speaker 1:I am a permanent figure in y'all lives.
Speaker 2:I'm a permanent figure, no doubt, absolutely in your lives. I'm going to pop that picture. No doubt, no doubt, absolutely. It depends on if the invite comes for this dinner Friday.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, it's coming, do you believe? Three months ago.
Speaker 2:It does not seem like too much.
Speaker 1:Three months ago, standing there talking to my sharing. I tell people all the time you never know what your situation is going to be from one second to the next.
Speaker 2:Yeah, In a matter of seconds. I'm telling you, I just walked off.
Speaker 1:Yes, pastor T. Pastor T said she pulling up too. We're going to do this, let's get it, let's get it yeah, we have.
Speaker 1:But in a matter of seconds your entire life can change. And I'm saying that to say that it doesn't have to be all bad If you got bills, if you got an eviction notice, if you got laid off of your job, if that relationship ended, if that business, it does not matter what it is. In a matter of seconds your entire situation can change. Matter what it is, in a matter of seconds your entire situation can change. I'm telling y'all, all you have to do is trust and believe in God and know that he has you, that you will not lack anything, you will not want for anything. The word says the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
Speaker 2:You shall not want for nothing.
Speaker 1:There was not a want that I had when I was in that hospital. I didn't even say God, I want to go home. I knew I was going home.
Speaker 2:I knew I was going home.
Speaker 1:When the people said I don't listen, they said two weeks. It didn't even feel like two weeks, I was in. Icu for two weeks. I was in ICU for two weeks. It went fast. Yeah, it did. I was in ICU for two weeks.
Speaker 3:It went fast. Yeah, it did.
Speaker 1:What they told us was she would be in ICU for two weeks, then she would go down to MICU and then she would go to rehab. After two weeks she came home from ICU.
Speaker 2:That was rare.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something my doctors and my nurses. One of my nurses was going to come on here, but she's doing her shift and I appreciate her so much for that.
Speaker 1:My doctors and my nurses cried when I was being discharged. They was like you don't understand, like you're going straight home, like you don't understand. And so I'm so thankful Again, I'm so blessed. It is a process, because my brain is still healing and they told me, they had the nerve to tell me it's a possibility that you can try to come back. Try it, try it. Do y'all hear me, try it. I'm so glad you do a lot. Now I do want you to take it easy, absolutely, really truly take it easy. But I was so happy when I saw the fly and was like okay, so what that's good.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I had to go through this. I had to sit down for two weeks, so what I do want to put out here, though, and I want people to understand, be in tune to your health and your body. Stress is a silent killer, and a lot of people don't walk away from this. I said it earlier, and you can read the stats for yourself. A lot of people do not walk away from this, and the other thing I want people to understand is when you have a headache. I don't give us a small headache when you go to the emergency room.
Speaker 1:Do not let them tell you oh, it's just this or that, ask for a cat scan, because you never know. I had no idea that my my brain was bleeding the day before the um the young lady Angie that was going to be on here.
Speaker 1:She had a headache for two weeks yeah, I'm with my girlfriend right now LaSoya, I hope she's watching, listen. If you hear her complaining about headaches, I'm on her right now. Go check it. Your body is like a smoke detector when it goes off. You are not going to just sit in the house and allow your smoke detector to go off and you don't go see what's going on, even if you don't do nothing, but go and fan it for it to turn off. You're going to acknowledge it. So you feel it and you got to acknowledge it and you got to move and you got to get up and go fan it and do something, absolutely.
Speaker 2:I was going to get her later, but yeah.
Speaker 1:And the doctor did say. The doctor did say that on the 18th, the headache that I had and the pain behind my eye, it was they call it a sentinel drip, but that was the warning. God gives us warnings. We just got to listen and we have to pay attention to it, because you know, we get warnings drip, but that was the warning. God gives us warnings. We just got to listen and we have to pay attention to it, because we get warnings and we know what's good for us and what's not. We be like, okay, that's a warning, but I'm just going to keep on because this is what I want. This is what I want to do. I got to get to this place, I got to be in this situation, I got to go to this job, I got to finish this project.
Speaker 2:God gives us warnings but when you connect, when you connected to God and he give you that warning and you choose to do what you want, he give you the intuition, he give you the knowledge and the power to say all right, let me push through and go to this event. I know I'm still like it let me go so he can place you amongst people that's going to help you get through that absolutely and he had me to go to that event because he know even with the warning, I was going to keep moving.
Speaker 1:I still had stuff to do. So he was like, okay, I gave her this warning, I got to get her in a place to where I can get a hold of her.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it yes indeed, I thank y'all so much, thank y'all for tuning in.
Speaker 2:I love y'all. I love y'all, Love you, love you, love you love you love you, love you Listen y'all remember.
Speaker 1:There's nothing wrong with saying so what? And not saying it in a bad way, but so what? You are going through situations and circumstances. Just because you are in a situation that is not your final destination, just because you had a nightmare, it does not mean you stop dreaming. I love you all. I appreciate y'all so much and I will talk to y'all soon. We are back. So are Wednesdays. We're back. I love y'all. Talk to y'all soon. Okay, see you, bye.