Hi, I\u2019m Cassendra Dearing and I\u2019d like to tell you what happened to me that morning when I went to the opening meeting of IFCB\u2019s annual conference last July 2015.\u00a0 I wanted my son to hear the testimony of John Smith, the boy who God raised from the dead in January 2015, after he fell thru the ice in Lake Louise in Lake St. Louis Missouri and was without a pulse for over 47 minutes.<\/p>\n
John Smith was going into the 9th<\/sup> grade this fall and had been a student coach in the summer basketball program that my son attended this summer After hearing the remarkable first-hand experience of John Smith, his father and his pastor, we were thanking and praising God along with everyone\u00a0 in the room.<\/p>\n Don Allen was the guest speaker after the Smith\u2019s finished and he told of another woman he was ministering to who had been in a wheelchair from birth and God healed this woman right in front of him and she stood and began to walk for the first time in her life.<\/p>\n Then Don Allen surprised me with a great statement of faith.\u00a0 He said, \u201cIf you bring somebody back tonight, they will be healed.\u201d\u00a0 That certainty spoke to me and my faith was increased.<\/p>\n So, after the meeting, I went home and called my friend Amy.\u00a0 Amy\u2019s health had been deteriorating.\u00a0 As an RN\u00a0 she knew she had some serious issues.\u00a0 Amy and her husband had been planning on going to mass that Saturday night, but changed their plans and came to the IFCB annual banquet that same Saturday evening.<\/p>\n Amy had been given a diagnosis, about 19 months ago, of the \u2018Steven Johnson Syndrome.\u2019\u00a0 The first time she went to the ER with this condition, they told her what it was.\u00a0\u00a0 As an RN she looked it up and realized she had just been given a death sentence.<\/p>\n About 300,000 people in the world have this diagnosis.\u00a0 She knew this Syndrome is a killer and is life threatening.\u00a0 Generally you get blisters everywhere, then you get an infection, then you die.\u00a0 Amy came to the banquet with a lot of pain and her legs were severely swollen and her calves were covered in blisters.\u00a0 Her arms and head had a rash which is the precursor to blisters appearing.<\/p>\n This Syndrome was controlling her life.\u00a0 She could no longer do shift work at the hospital.\u00a0 She was only able to set at a desk and do paperwork and give shots, which was very unfulfilling work for an RN with 23 year\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n Amy said: \u201dI\u2019m a nurse of 23 years and that July night I went to the IFCB banquet and met Don Allen.\u00a0 I have Steven Johnson\u2019s Syndrome which makes me swell up quite a bit.\u00a0 It means I have blisters on my calves.\u00a0 I went there and he prayed over me along with a lot of other people. My legs were really red and looked really bad that night and they were very swollen.\u00a0 The next morning when I woke up, the swelling was gone and so was the redness.\u00a0 Some of the swelling is still going away.\u00a0 It takes a while for your body to process that.\u00a0 But, the redness which the active Steven Johnson\u2019s Syndrome is GONE. I\u2019ve lost 35 pounds of fluid since then, just about two months.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t wake up in pain every day.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to worry about what clothes will fit that day due to the swelling.\u00a0 I have more energy.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m normal again.<\/p>\n \u201cI had this Syndrome for 19 months and it was miserable, it was a horrible thing.\u00a0 And now that I don\u2019t have it anymore, I know that God has blessed me and taken it out of my life and answered my prayers, and it\u2019s wonderful. It\u2019s something that you don\u2019t expect to happen to you.\u00a0 And when it does it\u2019s a miracle.\u00a0 God has been very good to me.\u201d\u00a0 (As she shakes her head up and down.)<\/p>\n \u201cLet me give you some specifics how Steven Johnson\u2019s Syndrome affected me.\u00a0 I grew 2 sizes larger, so I had to buy all new clothes.\u00a0 My wedding ring wouldn\u2019t fit so I had to have it sized up two sizes. And now I have to have it resized down because it\u2019s so much smaller.\u00a0 My legs swelled so much I couldn\u2019t fit into my shoes.\u00a0 My toenails were separating from the bed of my toes and it was very painful.\u00a0 And now they are starting to heal.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just amazing at how much difference you see in your body.\u00a0 My arms had like a rash and I could feel it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize it was from the Steven Johnson Syndrome. But my arms have shrunk and the rash is gone.\u00a0 The swelling seems to be going away and my midsection is getting rid of the swelling too.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ve lost more than 35 pounds.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing that the Lord can do that, and no doctor could know how to do that.\u00a0 This happens to over 300,000 people every year and they don\u2019t know how to treat it.\u00a0 My doctor\u2019s probably an expert and he still doesn\u2019t know how to treat it.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving all that fluid on you, you have so much more added weight.\u00a0 It was very hard.\u00a0 I also had to have shoulder surgery and the thought of undergoing anesthesia when you have all these things already wrong with your body.\u00a0 It was very scary. I had the shoulder surgery about three weeks before I went to the healing service.<\/p>\n \u201cThis also affected my sleep because I was constantly uncomfortable trying to find a comfortable position.\u00a0 Luckily we have an adjustable bed and I would put my legs in so many positions, between my shoulder and my legs.\u00a0 Now I just sleep flat.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice not having to worry about it!<\/p>\n \u201cSteven Johnson\u2019s Syndrome is generally a killer.\u00a0 I was lucky because my blisters were only on my legs below my knee.\u00a0 Generally you blister everywhere, you have open wounds, you get a massive infection and you die.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know if that was still there, if that could happen.\u00a0 If I set on anything that was Scotch guarded, if I ran into anything with Bounce. I couldn\u2019t wear wool socks anymore because they all caused it to get worse.\u00a0 Now, I won\u2019t Scotch guard anything I own, I can sit on it without it affecting me at all.<\/p>\n \u201cI now have a very bright future.\u00a0 We\u2019re moving.\u00a0 I have a new job.\u00a0 I have all these things I can do now because I don\u2019t have this Syndrome and I\u2019m healthy.\u00a0 He healed me and now He is telling me to go to Minnesota.\u00a0 So now I\u2019m doing what He tells me to do.\u00a0 I can work as a nurse again.\u00a0 I can do 12 shifts without pain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, I\u2019m Cassendra Dearing and I\u2019d like to tell you what happened to me that morning when I went to the opening meeting of IFCB\u2019s annual conference last July 2015.\u00a0 I wanted my son to hear the testimony of John … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimony"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifcb.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}