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Counterattack “Blood clots in the lungs often dissolve with blood thinners,” the doctor explained. “But that’s often not the case with blood clots in the liver. Sometimes they don’t dissolve and do damage to the liver, which is why we’re keeping an eye on her liver enzymes. If they elevate, it means her liver is in trouble.” Morphine took the edge off the pain, but Karen continued meditating on Psalm 91:16. Her respirations slowed, and her blood pressure stabilized. They’d already started her on a fast-acting blood thinner. She improved so fast that in less than a week, she was discharged from the hospital. “I saw a hematologist in the hospital who told me that my condition was very rare,” Karen recalls. “Normally it happens when you develop blood clots in your legs which break off and travel to your lungs. But they found no evidence that I’d had any blood clots in my legs, or anywhere else.” Karen continued to see the hematologist as an outpatient. He worked hard to figure out what had caused all those blood clots to develop, checking for blood disorders and for cancer, and did a bone biopsy. Taking a Stand Because all those blood clots had to pass through Karen’s heart before they got lodged in her lungs, the doctor ordered an echo cardiogram of her heart to make sure it hadn’t been damaged. The results were normal. “He found one troubling thing,” Karen recalls. “My liver enzymes started elevating. Suddenly, everyone was worried about my liver. That wasn’t good. I knew I had to take another stand on God’s Word. I asked the Lord what to stand on and He gave me Proverbs 4:20-22, ‘My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.’ I confessed those verses, declaring that the Word was health to my flesh, including my liver. “My doctor ordered a sonogram of my liver. I called KCM’s prayer department again, and we agreed in prayer that the blood clots were gone, that my liver was undamaged and my enzymes were normal. When the results came back, there were no blood clots in my liver. My enzymes were normal!” Karen continued to improve over the next few weeks. In early August, however, she developed mild chest pain. Her doctor referred her to a pulmonary specialist, who said what every doctor said after reading her medical record: “Do you know how lucky you are to be alive?” “I’m very blessed,” Karen replied. “Because I was still having mild chest pains, and my lungs had gone without oxygen, there was a real possibility that some of the tissue in my lungs had been damaged. In order to determine the extent of the damage, my pulmonologist ordered a nuclear medicine lung scan.” The scan was scheduled for Aug. 9, 2013. Before going for the scan, once again Karen phoned the prayer department at KCM. They agreed in prayer that her lungs were healed. Following the scan, the radiologist came out to the waiting room and looked at Karen with a puzzled expression. “You had blood clots in your lungs?” he asked. “Yes, extensive bilateral blood clots.” “When?” “May 22nd—about 10 weeks ago.” “That’s amazing.” “Why?” “Because you’d never know it by looking at your lungs. Your lungs show no evidence of you ever having blood clots. Your lungs are perfectly healthy.” The nurse, who walked out with the doctor, looked at Karen. “That’s a miracle,” she said. And Karen said, “I’ll take it!” Whole Again “I was out of work from February until late June,” Karen explains. “I was unable to drive for almost five months. Over time, the pain just fizzled out. They never found the cause of the blood clots. “I’m so grateful for KCM. They taught me how to stand on God’s Word and live by faith. They also stood with me in prayer through the entire ordeal. Without their teaching, I would be dead.” In December of that same year, Ralph Creel proposed to Karen and they were married in May 2014. Although doctors never discovered where the blood clots came from, Karen never doubted who caused them. Jesus said it best in John 10:10: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” ("New International Version"). The devil tried to kill her, but Jesus made her whole. Even in a brain freeze, her spirit pulled up the Word of God and her heart took a stand. Today, Karen Siska-Creel is healed and whole, living a wonderful and full life. V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Join us in teaching believers how to use their faith. 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