This was taken from a Facebook note from one of 6:22's board members, Donnie Luper. This all occurred the day after Worshipfest.
It was weird. I woke up Sunday morning at 345 AM with pain in my chest. I thought it was just indigestion but it kept coming in waves and I could not go back to sleep. Then I broke out in a sweat and had diarrhea so knowing just enough to be dangerous was worried I was having a heart attack. I was also having chills but that is not normal for that but just to be safe went to the ER. They took me straight back and did an ekg and all was normal. They also did blood work to see if that enzyme that happens when you have an infarct was in my blood. SO they come back later and tell me my white blood cell count it .9 when normal is 6-10 and my platelets were also low. They said I needed to stay in the hospital to see they could do the blood test for the enzyme a couple more times cause sometimes it does not show up for a couple of hours (up to 10 hours) after a heart attack. They started and IV and took me upstairs. They also said my potassium was low and gave me a potassium pill and Nexium for my indigestion in case I had acid reflux.
I went upstairs and the hematologist came in to discuss my blood count numbers. I asked him what the differential diagnosis was and he said sometype of infection, something viral and also leukemia. He said if it was leukemia that I would probably have to go to Duke or ECU for chemotherapy starting Tuesday or Wednesday. So I was just a little concerned. He asked if I had any ticks on me lately and I pulled on off of me about 3-4 weeks ago. It was not one that had bitten me that I know but was crawling on my leg. So he said it could be a tick bite disease also.
He gave me some doxycycline (antibiotic) in my IV and said he was going to go look at a smear of my blood. He came back up and said all of my white blood cells looked normal that it was just low. He told me he was going to have to set me up for a bone marrow biopsy to make sure it was not leukemia. So they told me they were going to do it first thing Monday morning.
I had all kinds of people come in to visit yesterday and had about 4 people lay hands on me and pray for healing. When Cal Hayslip prayed for me along with his wife and Susan and Dana I had this mental image out of Revalation where the prayers of the saints fill up the bowls and the bowls are poured out. And this incredible wave of peace came over me that I had just been healed. I do not know how to describe this. I know I had people all around praying for me. ANd a really strange thing happened right before I went to bed. I was flipping thru the channels and stopped on TBN the religious channel. I do not usually watch it but there is one guy I like on that channel who is a really good preache. His name is Derek Prince. About 2 minutes into his message he stopped and looked at the camera and said that he knew there was someone who was watching who was in a hospital bed and they are wondering if you have leukemia. Then he said if you have prayed for healing just know that the Lord has answered your prayers. I just felt like God was talking to me thru him.
The nurse came in at 2 AM Monday morning and drew blood again and they sent it to the lab. She came back in at 5 AM and told me they were going to have to draw some more blood. I asked her if it was to recheck the first test and she said yes. I asked her if it was because my white count was normal and she said yes and I told her why and about the night before. She said that it would be a miracle if my count went from .9 to 10.9 in 12 hours.
Well it got to be 7:30 when the Hematologist came in and he asked me if I had heard the news. I told him about the night before also and he said that stranger things have happened but based on the blood smear and also on the count that there was no need to do the bone marrow biopsy. My platelet count was still a little low but they were going to let me go home. My liver enzymes were a little high also so they thought with my tick exposure that it was something called Ehrlichiosis. This is something that has a classic triad of high liver enzymes, low platelets and low white blood cells. And my symptoms fit it exactly also.
So they let me out at 10:30 and I came home. I slept about 3 hours because I had not gotten much sleep. SO I am going to go to work tomorrow and just stay on the doxycycline.
God is good to have healed me but would also have been just as much on the throne and good if had not done so. So I am praying that I will continue to walk hard after him.
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