Family Strengths

When we talked in class on Thursday about Family strengths, I wish I would have talked about what I had to say on the subject. My blog focuses on the area of the spiritual aspect of it. When my mom got sick about 9 years ago, we were all very scared, wondering what could be wrong with her and what was causing what she had. It turned out through extensive trips to doctors and emergency rooms that they discovered my mom had seizures on the left side of her brain. It was very scary because her whole nervous system would just shut down and basically to explain it in Lamens terms, her body became like a noodle and she would just slide out of her seat. Her blood pressure was another thing we had to keep an eye on and if it every got to low it was another trip to the ER. Every time she would end up in the emergency room we would wait to see what they could tell us on her condition. At that stage in my life I wasn't really sure if I believed in a higher power or if I even wanted to with all that was going on in my life and the world at the time. Painstakingly I tried to pull myself together for my mom and my family and figure out a way to deal with my mom becoming sick. I found that faith the night we had to take my mom to the ER because she started to get worse then she had before her previous symptoms (before we found out that she had seizures). That night I watched as my mom vomited all night and was pale as a ghost, at this point I was fearing the worst. I didn't know what to expect and for a kid with any sick parent, I feared death. I know that may sound stupid, but unless you were in my shoes or had a similar experience you would too. So, as I sat up at night worrying if she would get better I started to pray to God. I asked him to please help my mom get better and to help the doctors discover what was causing her to do this. I would sit there and pray hoping that she would get better everyday. One surprising thing is at the time I wasn't as close to my mom as I would have liked to have been, but we are very much so now. I just kept praying asking god if he did this for me, then I would become a better christian and know that he did exist and that he is real. After about two days we started to notice improvement in my mom, she wasn't vomiting anymore and her levels were starting to go down. Through the course of a few more days things got drastically better, and I knew that God had answered my prayers. The doctors I considered miracle workers, becasue not only had they figured out what my mom had, they made her life better. Because of this traumatic experience in my life it has brought me and my family closer together and has taught us to respect and love my mom and the things she does for us even more. It also showed me that with God as well, and my family. This is why church and going as much as possible is also very important. Without my mom we would have failed and fallen apart. I became very close with my mom after this and to this day still am. My mom still has seizures but not as bad.Her seizures are now caused through stress, illness, death, etc, which are controlled mostly by medication that she has to be on for the rest of her life. I know though that when this happens I turn to prayer and talk to God.