I don't blog very often, but I am feeling the need to do so very strongly today since today has been a monumental day in the growth of my faith. I want to keep this story short and to the point so I will do my best to be as brief as possible as I usually tend to be a little lengthy and have a hard time condensing things.
Let me start this story out with introducing you to my now almost 7 month old son, Timothy. When Timothy was 2 months old, his pediatrician told me that he would be needing a helmet to correct a flat spot on the side of his head. This flat spot was caused because Timothy was positioned head down in a very low position in the womb and was unable to move his head from a rotated position during the last trimester of my pregnancy. When he was born his neck muscles were very stiff on this side since his head was pretty much stuck in that one position for so long. This is known in the medical world as torticollis. His pediatrician at that time had simply said I needed to do stretches with him and that he would definitely need the helmet because his flat spot was very severe.
I left this doctor visit feeling very upset like a righteous type of anger feeling that nobody was going to tell me anything was wrong with my son. I know my God can heal anything and I know that God didn't do this. I have a strong belief that God created us to naturally heal anything that is not formed perfectly as His plan is.
The first thing that I did was called my husband and we prayed. We also had a few friends praying for us and had the pastors at our church pray with us. When we prayed I definitely felt a change, but I knew that the healing was going to be a process that it wouldn't be instantaneous.
In the meantime, we wanted to use wisdom in our actions so we did look into getting the helmet, not knowing for sure if or if not we would end up doing it, we just wanted to get all the information and be ready if we did decide to use the helmet. We also believe that God gave us knowledge of doctors and modern medicine and we don't want to be foolish and not take into account what modern medicine says.
As we looked into the helmet, we discovered that our insurance would not even cover it until he was 4 months and had done 3 months of repositioning and at this point, we would still have to pay a very large amount out of pocket but it would go toward Timmy's deductable.
As the months went on, his neck healed very quickly and I found myself not having to do any stretches with him by the time he was 3.5 months. At this point I saw him turning his head easily in both directions and having no pain in doing it. His head did still have a severe flat spot on his left side though. As I looked at his head everyday, I had faith that God was healing him but as I looked at the flat spot I would always wonder, maybe I should get the helmet also, so that I won't regret anything later down the road. (There is only the time until they are one year old before there head shape stops being reshapeable.)
When Timmy was 5 months old, we decided to get the helmet. He went in for his initial visit at 3.5 months and his head measured 17 mm difference from one side to the other side. When we went at 5 months to measure him for the helmet his difference was 10 mm which the lady had said is pretty much unheard of for a 7 mm improvement without the helmet in a month and a half. She had said some people who are very aggressive with repositioning will get a 3-4 mm difference, of course we knew it was all God.
Now here is the great part of this story, the whole reason I am writing this long post is to give all the glory to God!! After Timmy started wearing his helmet he was supposed to go in every 2 weeks for check ups, but the first week he was supposed to go in after only wearing the helmet for 2 full days to make sure it was fitting properly. So after wearing the helmet 2 days, his head measured at 6 mm, a 4 mm improvement from the previous week. They then told us that when he measured at 3-4 mm he would be done wearing the helmet. For the next two weeks, Timmy wore the helmet 23 hours a day every day just as he was supposed to and we went in for our two week check and he still measured at 6 mm, no change! I was disappointed and as I was talking to God about it God told me that He wanted the glory in Timmy's healing, not the helmet. And so, during the next two weeks, Timmy didn't wear his helmet much, I would sometimes put in on him for a few hours, I think just to make myself feel like I was still following the helmet rules, but in the course of the next two weeks he spent much more time without his helmet on then with it on. I just knew when he went in for his next appointment that he would be done wearing the helmet anyways, and now God could get all the glory!
So what did happen at his next check up you ask? Well, he measured at a 3 mm difference and God gets the complete glory and I am dancing around with excitement all day! Nothing makes me happier than seeing my faith in God grow and I pray this story will build up your faith as well.
