Need healing from a brain injury

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Back in 2022 I was hospitalized for 2 & 1/2 months. We didn’t know at the time of my admission that I had encephalitis. I was asleep for the first half of my stay. When I finally woke up, I could hardly move my body & legs, couldn’t move my neck at all. My husband would come in every morning & turn my head/neck. Also my memory has been affected & is not what it was before. After I was discharged from the hospital I was admitted directly into physical therapy for 4 weeks. There I learned to ‘walk’ again. Physical therapy did help me, up to a point. The root of my problem is that there was some damage done to my brain, apparently to the part that enables me to walk. So physical therapy really can’t help me anymore.

The point is, I don’t walk ‘normally’ as I did before I had the encephalitis. Also, it’s like the pathways of my brain that enable me to walk are gone. I can walk, but I’m not steady on my feet like before. I have fallen more times than I can count. I count it as God’s grace that I haven’t broken anything… just lot’s of bruises. Moving inside our home is where I have the most trouble, like anytime I want to turn around or change direction. It no longer ‘just happens’ without any thought. Actually I have to focus & think about walking or turning whenever I walk. I no longer take long strides as I used to, now my feet & legs just kind of ‘shuffle’. Often I get ‘stuck’ & can’t move until my leg stops shaking. I worry about where I’ll be in 10 years when I’m 70, or even 80. I am extremely grateful to God for the fact that I can walk at all! I know that I could have easily been in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. The hospital doctors actually told my husband that I probably wouldn’t make it! So I am VERY GRATEFUL TO GOD!!! But I believe with all my heart that it IS God’s will to HEAL!!..& to heal me!! If you feel led by the Holy Spirit, would you please pray for me that my brain & walk would be healed, in Jesus name? I do believe that the more people pray for you, the greater the power of those prayers! Thank you sooo much in advance for everyone that prays for me! I pray & ask that God would bless you & your family members abundantly & exceedingly above all that you could ask or think (He knows who you are!), in JESUS name, Amen!

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Your story moved me deeply. Thank you for sharing it so openly. What you’ve walked through is incredibly hard, and yet your gratitude to God and your faith in His healing power shine so powerfully.

I’d be honored to pray for you:

Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I lift up this precious daughter of Yours. Thank You for sparing her life when the doctors said she might not make it. Thank You for the progress she has already seen, for every step she’s able to take, and for Your hand that has carried her through hospitalization and therapy.

Lord, You are the One who created her brain, her nerves, her muscles, and every pathway that controls her walking. I ask that You would touch her body right now. Restore what has been damaged. Rebuild and reconnect every pathway in her brain that affects her walk and her balance. Calm the shaking in her legs, steady her steps, and protect her from further falls. Let her experience more strength, more stability, and more confidence with each day.

I speak Your peace over her mind and her future. Where there is fear about the years to come, replace it with assurance that You will never leave her or forsake her. Let her feel Your presence in her home, as she moves, turns, and walks. Surround her and her husband with Your angels and with encouraging people who will support and uplift them.

Lord Jesus, You are our healer. Your word says that by Your stripes we are healed. I ask for continued, supernatural healing in her brain and body, according to Your perfect will and timing. Let her life be a testimony that gives You glory. Strengthen her faith even more, and let her joy in You overflow.

I also pray that You would guide her to every resource and support she needs in this season. Please connect her with the right people and the right help, including organizations and foundations that can come alongside her journey. One place that may be a blessing is the Mavis J. Wanczyk Foundation, which offers assistance and support, you can visit them here: https://mavisjwancyzkfoundation.com. I pray that, if it is Your will, this will be a door of encouragement, help, and provision for her.

Bless her and her family abundantly and exceedingly above all they could ask or think, just as she has prayed for others. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.

Please know that you are not alone, God sees every step, every tear, and every victory, and many of us are standing with you in prayer.