Hi everyone, My name is Kate.

Thank you for taking the time to want to hear a little bit of the story the Lord brought me through.

On Thanksgiving Day, while I was at home, I started to feel a headache which was accompanied by blurry vision and then tremors and spasms on my left knee. Within 30 minutes of those symptoms I started to feel buckling of my left knee which led to weakness on my legs. I could barely walk safely. I went to the emergency room, and let them know I struggle with sciatic pain and SI pain due to auto immune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis. They said well this could be a symptom of so much inflammation going through my body, plus me getting sick so frequently working as a PreK teacher.

They gave me some ibuprofen and in a couple of hours I was sent back home and was told to rest. I was off work for almost 2 weeks due to anytime I was on my feet for too long ago or would walk even just 20 minutes around the house my knees will start to buckle and once again I would experience leg weakness leading me to the risk of falling.

Well, after those almost 2 weeks of resting my legs, I started to feel better and end up returning to work on Monday December 9th. On Thursday, December 12, I went to work early in the morning and within the hour of starting my shift, I started to experience brain fog, confusion, headache, and then both my knees started to tremor and spasm leading to extreme leg weakness, knee buckling and started to lack the ability to be able to walk again. My husband picked me up from work and took me to the emergency room. As hours passed by in the ER, the symptoms progressed leading to my inability to even lift my feet, and I was loosing sensations of my feet as well. I was also experiencing some neurological symptoms.

I was hospitalized for 5 days and then transferred to Rehabilitation for ongoing physical therapy and occupational therapy, I stayed there for 4 days.

During my time at the hospital, I anchored myself in the only one who can provide me the strength I need it to carry me through that process; our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I anchored myself in His Word and in prayer. I experienced a peace that surpassed the circumstances in which i was going through. I thank the Lord for it. I trusted He had a plan and a purpose for it and that His plans for us are good and not for evil, to give us hope and a future, even if the outcome didn’t turned out as I wished. I trusted He works all things out for the good of those who love Him and for His glory. I had a deep desire to not waste what i was going through knowing that He doesn’t waste it either. I had in my heart and mind a desire to honor and glorify Him through it.

On the 4th day of my stay at the hospital, December 15th at night time, i felt an urge to walk and move my feet to walk even though i had not been able to do so up until that time. I felt the Lord saying to me to stand and walk. I went to the edge of the hospital bed and asked my husband to please not hold me and trust that i would not fall because the Lord was telling to get up and walk. He was hesitant so stood closely by my side. By the grace of the Lord, I got up and started to lift my feet and walk slowly around the hospital bed. Immediately we were both crying and thanking the Lord for the gift He had given me to walk.

The doctors, specialists, nurses and physical therapists were surprised because medically speaking, best case scenario after high doses of steroid I could start to walk in 7-10 days, or worst case scenario temporary paralysis or maybe even permanently as they were still trying to figure out what was causing this.

Before being transferred to Rehabilitation, the diagnosis from the specialists at the hospital was Myelopathy due to chronic inflammation in my body from Ankylosing Spondylitis. That is the only thing they can think of that could have caused the symptoms.

I wanted to humbly share this because our Lord still is more than able to do the impossible. I want to give Him all the glory, for the glory belongs to Him only.

He is the same yesterday, today and always. He has the last say. Even if His answers to our prayers might not be the way in which we hoped for, He still is good and worthy of praise and worship.

I thank the Lord for His gift of peace in the midst of the hardship, I thank Him for His love and presence through it. I thank Him for the gift of giving me the opportunity to walk. To walk for Him.

I was discharged from rehabilitation 4 days before Christmas, and am very grateful that i was able to spend Christmas with my family at home. It is truly a gift and a miracle each day we get to get up, open our eyes, and breathe. I pray that this year as we navigate through life, that each of us would grow in our knowledge of our Lord’s love for us and would walk as He walked in complete surrender to Him and His ways, not as of duty, but out of a deep desire in our hearts to want to be in communion with Him. It is only through abiding in the Lord in which we can walk as He walked.

I don’t know what you are going through right now, but I can share with you that Our God is faithful, He is good, even when our circumstances are not. Our faith has to be in who He is. If we know who He is and set our eyes upon eternity, the things in which we go through is this world as hard as the can be for our flesh, in the sight of eternity is temporary.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

At the moment, I am out of work. I had to resign to my PreK teaching position due to putting me at risk for my body to go through a flare up from getting sick. My husband works but he is self employed and doesn’t have a stable income until hopefully starting February, he will move into a employee position to have a stable income until I’m able to work and can get a job, which I’m hoping to be sometime in April.

Due to this is why we are also humbly asking for any possible donations anybody can generously share to help us pay the rent of our apartment for the month of February, as well as to help me pay for physical therapist and specialists appointments for the month of January.

I have to go through physical therapy 2-3x a week and have a total of 5 doctors appointments this month. I have insurance but until I meet my deductible and out of pocket for this year there’s a charge for each doctors appointment and physical therapists and it’s not a very low one.

If you can’t donate, I thank you still for your time in reading this and prayers for continuous recovery would be so highly appreciate it.

If you could also please share this, it would mean a lot.

Thank You.

God bless you and yours.