A woman has been paralyzed from illness for 28 years, but neither she nor her Christian mother gave up. They firmly relied on God in difficult situations, seeking all kinds of medical help for recovery, and praying to God fervently. As a result, after having persevered for more than 20 years, the daughter is finally able to stand up, thanks to the amazing road that God had opened for them.
A few days ago, the mother shared the true story of her daughter standing up after having been bedridden for 28 years. T
The following story was told from her own perspective:
My daughter was born in 1993. One night in June 1994, being only eight months old, she suddenly started to have a high fever. Two days after having an intravenous drip infusion, she had an epileptic seizure. Later, at our local hospital, she was diagnosed with encephalitis which caused symptoms of epilepsy and left hemiplegia. Being treated for two weeks, she was discharged from the hospital and returned home. Afterward, my daughter's condition became very bad with frequent convulsions.
Since she was hospitalized at only eight months old, the doctor had prescribed phenobarbital tablets which my daughter had taken for more than sevem years until I found that her eyes appeared abnormal with deviation, and she reacted slow, even a little demented. At that time, I realized that she shouldn’t take this medicine any longer. If not, her situation would become more and more serious and in addition to paralysis, she would be mentally retarded.
I had been praying earnestly before God, "God, if you let this child live on, I will serve you willingly. But if you take her away, it will also be very good since it doesn’t matter how long we live in the world, but the salvation of our souls matters."
After praying, God gave me strength, with which I stopped giving my daughter the phenobarbital tablets that she had been taking, for I knew that this medicine was not very useful for her condition. Since she had been taking the medicine for seven years, her body reacted very strongly once she stopped. For about a week, she had so dreadful spasms that her body had been twisting involuntarily.
People around me, including my parents, relatives, church members as well as my husband, all opposed my decision to stop my daughter from taking the medicine.
I experienced such hardship for about ten days during which I almost didn’t do anything but just held my daughter in my arms. Thanks Him that she gradually got rid of spasticity after this period.
On July 31, 2001, I participated in a vocal training during which I thought about the choir of my church which wasn’t well organized yet. Afterward, I told the elders that I wanted to establish a choir in the church which was successfully formed in August of that year.
On the day the choir officially started, I trained the choir members in the church on vocal fundamentals. At that time, I asked one brother to help me to take care of my daughter. Unfortunately, in less than 10 minutes after the training started, my daughter got syndromes of convulsion, eyelid myoclonic, and foaming at the mouth. Before that, she also had many convulsions, and every time I took her to the hospital for an IV drip infusion. Only this time, I treated it otherwise by kneeling down and praying for her, as I was followed by all the choir members. Later, the church elders asked me if I wanted to take the child to the hospital, to which I answered that I would never do that again. I had made up my mind before God that I would never go to hospital with her again, but rely on the Lord alone.
In my mind, I always had an idea that God would test me at least three times, which I had never told anyone else. However, I had been waiting for these new trials.
One late night in November 2001, while sleeping, I had a dream that something seemed to have happened to my daughter. When I woke up, the first thing I did was touch her (my daughter was sleeping next to me at that time), and found that she was actually having a seizure. Turning on the light and waking up my husband, I then knelt down and prayed for about half an hour. My daughter slowly stopped convulsing. That was the second trial. However, I knew there would be the third one.
Right before the Spring Festival in 2001, on the evening of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, again in the middle of the night, I saw something happen to my daughter in a dream, which coincided with the reality that she was having another seizure. I woke my husband up again before I knelt down and prayed to God. As a result, my daughter stopped convulsing and showed signs of recovery after I prayed for a short while, as told by my husband. After praying, I became very peaceful in my heart and no longer worried about the child.
From that time until now, it’s been 21 years since my daughter ever had a seizure. Also from that day, her health began to improve little by little.
For more than eight years before that, my daughter could not stand upright at all. Not being able to even sit up, she could only lie down. Her body would get better a little bit after having a convulsion for a month or two before being afflicted with another convulsion for which her body was completely paralyzed again...
Since the last convulsion at the age of eight, my daughter's physical condition has gradually begun to improve. Never having another convulsion again, her body had gradually become stronger even though she couldn’t stand up.
When I had some church work to do, served in the choir, or took part in preaching from the podium, many believers took turns taking care of my two children. They brought my daughter to their homes during the day. Then I took her home after serving at night. My son was healthy and often stayed at these believers’ homes day and night. They told me, “Sister C, don’t worry, we will take good care of your children, while you just serve with peace of mind.” Whoever had time would look after them before another person took over in a few days. Sometimes even I didn’t know whose home the children were at.
To help my daughter learn how to walk, I bought her an adult walker. In 2020, we also found a therapist who is specialized in whole-body rehabilitation. He was very sympathetic to my daughter. Knowing that my family was having financial difficulties because of her condition, he decided to provide my daughter with treatment products for free.
One afternoon in April, I stayed at home with my daughter. Swiping my phone, I didn't notice that she slowly stood up from the stool by herself without holding anything to support her. I was shocked at seeing this.
After realizing what happened, I quickly videotaped her standing up with my mobile phone, and sent it to her therapist.
Afterword:
Sister C became a Christian in 1990 and later she was the leader of a local church from 2015 to 2021, serving the church as well as participating in the choir for a long time. After leaving the position as the leader of the church, C began to focus on looking after her daughter and rehabilitating her body. She said that she was hugely encouraged by her daughter being able to stand up. She would continue to persevere with her until she fully recovered.
Pastor S happily shared that apparently, it seemed to be a miracle that C’s daughter successfully stood up after having been paralyzed for so many years. However, behind the miracle, C and her daughter kept their faith and never gave up, believing that when they firmly trusted in God, He would surely give them a way out.
"After C's daughter could stand up successfully, I visited them at home once. I went to pick up an express package with her daughter who spent more than half an hour walking about 800 meters with an adult walker, which moved me very much. She believed that she would fully recover, and even hoped to have a family and learn to drive in the future.” Pastor S said that rather than simply knowing it as a miraculous story or testimony, we actually should see the power of faith which would not be defeated by reality. We should always believe and hope, and always find a way out, which is what everyone can practice in life.
- Translated by Shuya Wang
女儿因病瘫痪了28年的时间，但是这位母亲和女儿都没有放弃，在困境中仍然坚定倚靠上帝，寻求各种医疗帮助和康复，并且切切祷告。于是，我们就看到，在20多年的持续坚守之后，上帝给她们开了一条惊人的路，女儿站起来了。
日前，这位母亲分享了她女儿生病28年后站起来的真实故事。
我女儿1993年出生，1994年6月的一天晚上突然开始发高烧，挂水两天之后，出现惊厥，那时候她只有8个月大。后来送到我们当地医院，被医生诊断为乙型脑炎，同时伴随着乙型脑炎而引起的癫痫和左半身瘫痪。治疗了两周以后我们就出院回家了。回家以后，我女儿的状况就变得很不好，经常发生惊厥的状况。
从孩子8个月住院开始，医生给开了苯巴比妥片，一共吃了7年多的药，直到后来我发现女儿的眼睛开始出现异常，目光开始出现偏斜，人也开始变得木讷，甚至有点痴呆起来了。那时候我就明白过来，这个药肯定不能再吃下去了。再这么吃下去情况一定会越来越严重的，不仅半身瘫痪而且还会成为傻子。
我一直在上帝面前迫切的祷告：“上帝啊，如果你能够让这个孩子活下来的话，我就甘心乐意的来服事你。但是如果你把她收去了的话，那也是好得无比的，因为人活在世上，不在于时间长短，而在于灵魂得救。”
祷告之后，上帝就给我力量，我就把之前一直在吃的苯巴比妥片给停下了。因为我知道，这个药对于我女儿的病情是没有多大用处的，所以我一定要给她停药。由于已经连续吃了7年，现在一旦停止吃药，女儿的身体反应是非常强烈的，一周左右的时间，她的身体痉挛情况非常严重，身体一直不由自主的扭来扭去。
我周围的人，无论是我的父母、亲人还有教会的弟兄姊妹，还有我的丈夫，他们都反对我让女儿停药的决定。
当时这样的艰难大概持续了十天左右的时间，这段时间里面，我几乎什么都没有做，就只是抱着我女儿，一直把她抱在怀里。感谢上帝，过了十来天以后，孩子身上的痉挛反应就慢慢停下来了。
2001年7月31号，我去一个地方参加声乐培训，心里面就想起来了我所在教会诗班非常凋零的那一幕画面。之后我就跟教会长老说，我想在教会里面建立诗班，就这样到月份的时候，诗班顺利建立起来了。
结果就在诗班成立的这天，我在教会里面给诗班成员培训声乐基础知识，那时候让教会的一个弟兄帮助照看我女儿。结果培训才刚开始不到10分钟，我女儿就出事了，又出现了惊厥，眼睛翻白，口吐白沫。在这之前，我女儿也出现过多次惊厥，每次我都是把她送到医院挂吊瓶控制下来的。唯独这一次，我没有这样做。我就跪下来，开始祷告，然后诗班成员也为她祷告。之后教会长老问我说，要不要把孩子送到医院去？我说再也不送了，我已经在上帝面前立定心志，再也不去医院了，我们要单单依靠上帝。
在我里面一直有上帝会试炼我至少三次的想法，但是我一直没有给别人说，一直在等待新的试炼的来到。
2001年11月份的一个深夜，睡觉的时候我就做梦，梦见我的女儿好像发生了什么事情。随后我就醒了过来，第一个动作就是去摸我的女儿（那时候女儿在我旁边睡），我的女儿果然正在惊厥。我就打开了灯，叫醒了丈夫，然后我就跪下来祷告，祷告了大概半个小时的时间，我女儿的惊厥就慢慢的停下来了。这是第二次试炼，但是我知道，后面可能还会再来一次。
就在2001年春节来临之前，腊月29号晚上，又是在半夜的时候我在梦中又看见了女儿出了事情。果然，我女儿又发生了惊厥。我就再一次叫醒了丈夫，然后我跪下来向上帝祷告。结果在我才祷告了一小会，丈夫就给我说，女儿好了，不再惊厥了。祷告完以后我心里就变得非常平安，不再担心我女儿了。
从那时候开始直到现在，21年的时间，我女儿再也没有发生过惊厥。也是从那时候开始，她的身体开始慢慢的好转。
而在这之前的8年多的时间，我女儿完全没有办法直立，只能够横躺着，连坐都不能坐。几乎每一次惊厥之后的一两个月，眼看着她的身体在一点点的变好，结果又发生惊厥，身体又彻底瘫掉了……
自从8岁时候发生了最后一次惊厥之后，我女儿的身体状况慢慢的就开始好转，再也没有发生过惊厥，而且虽然不能够站起来，但是身体慢慢开始变得硬朗起来。
当我需要做一些教会工作的时候，当我需要参加诗班服事，当我需要参与讲台工作的时候，很多弟兄姊妹就主动地轮流照顾我的两个孩子。女儿白天由弟兄姊妹在他们家里来照顾，然后晚上我服事结束以后再接回家；儿子是健康的，常常白天晚上都在弟兄姊妹的家里，晚上也住在那里。弟兄姊妹给我说，C姊妹，你不用担心，孩子们我会照顾好的，你只管安心服事就好。谁有时间就由谁来照顾，然后过几天就被另外一个人接到自己家里，甚至我都不知道还在现在孩子们到底在谁家里。
为了帮助女儿，我给她买了一个成年人的学步车，这样我女儿就可以借着学步车慢慢的走路。2020年的时候，我们也找到了一位专门帮助别人调理身体的老师。这位老师非常同情我的女儿，他也知道我家因为我女儿的缘故过得很艰难，因此他就决定免费给我女儿提供调理身体的产品。
4月份的一天下午，我和女儿都在家里。我正在那里看手机，并没有注意到女儿。我女儿就自己慢慢离开了凳子然后站了起来，没有扶任何东西。我一看见这样的情景，很我震惊了。
等到反应过来以后，我就赶快拿起手机，把我女儿站起来的情景拍了视频，给那位给我女儿调理身体的老师发过去。
后记：
C姊妹1990年开始信主，成为基督徒，随后于2015年到2021年这段时间担任教会负责人，服事教会，此外还长期参与教会诗班服事。从教会负责人位置退出以后，C姊妹开始专心照顾女儿，调理女儿身体。C姊妹说，现在女儿站起来以后，给了她很大的鼓舞，她会带着女儿继续坚持下去，直到女儿完全康复为止。
S牧者高兴的分享说，C姊妹的女儿因病瘫痪了这么多年以后成功站起来了，表面上看的话这是一个神迹，但在神迹的背后，其实有着C姊妹和她女儿持续不断地坚守，她们一直没有放弃，相信坚定的倚赖上帝的时候，上帝必定会给她们开出路。
“C姊妹的女儿顺利站起来以后，我去了一次她们家，当中有一次和C姊妹的女儿去一个地方取快递，C姊妹的女儿使用成人学步车，用半个多小时的时间，走了800多米，让我非常感动。她相信自己会完全康复，盼望以后能够成家，能够学会开车。”S牧师说，比起我们只是简单地知道一个奇迹般的故事/见证，我们其实更需要看到信念的力量，它不会被现实打败，总是相信和盼望，总是能找到出路，这是每一个人在生活中都可以实践的。
见证| 女儿因乙型脑炎瘫痪28年 有一天站起来后....
A woman has been paralyzed from illness for 28 years, but neither she nor her Christian mother gave up. They firmly relied on God in difficult situations, seeking all kinds of medical help for recovery, and praying to God fervently. As a result, after having persevered for more than 20 years, the daughter is finally able to stand up, thanks to the amazing road that God had opened for them.
A few days ago, the mother shared the true story of her daughter standing up after having been bedridden for 28 years. T
The following story was told from her own perspective:
My daughter was born in 1993. One night in June 1994, being only eight months old, she suddenly started to have a high fever. Two days after having an intravenous drip infusion, she had an epileptic seizure. Later, at our local hospital, she was diagnosed with encephalitis which caused symptoms of epilepsy and left hemiplegia. Being treated for two weeks, she was discharged from the hospital and returned home. Afterward, my daughter's condition became very bad with frequent convulsions.
Since she was hospitalized at only eight months old, the doctor had prescribed phenobarbital tablets which my daughter had taken for more than sevem years until I found that her eyes appeared abnormal with deviation, and she reacted slow, even a little demented. At that time, I realized that she shouldn’t take this medicine any longer. If not, her situation would become more and more serious and in addition to paralysis, she would be mentally retarded.
I had been praying earnestly before God, "God, if you let this child live on, I will serve you willingly. But if you take her away, it will also be very good since it doesn’t matter how long we live in the world, but the salvation of our souls matters."
After praying, God gave me strength, with which I stopped giving my daughter the phenobarbital tablets that she had been taking, for I knew that this medicine was not very useful for her condition. Since she had been taking the medicine for seven years, her body reacted very strongly once she stopped. For about a week, she had so dreadful spasms that her body had been twisting involuntarily.
People around me, including my parents, relatives, church members as well as my husband, all opposed my decision to stop my daughter from taking the medicine.
I experienced such hardship for about ten days during which I almost didn’t do anything but just held my daughter in my arms. Thanks Him that she gradually got rid of spasticity after this period.
On July 31, 2001, I participated in a vocal training during which I thought about the choir of my church which wasn’t well organized yet. Afterward, I told the elders that I wanted to establish a choir in the church which was successfully formed in August of that year.
On the day the choir officially started, I trained the choir members in the church on vocal fundamentals. At that time, I asked one brother to help me to take care of my daughter. Unfortunately, in less than 10 minutes after the training started, my daughter got syndromes of convulsion, eyelid myoclonic, and foaming at the mouth. Before that, she also had many convulsions, and every time I took her to the hospital for an IV drip infusion. Only this time, I treated it otherwise by kneeling down and praying for her, as I was followed by all the choir members. Later, the church elders asked me if I wanted to take the child to the hospital, to which I answered that I would never do that again. I had made up my mind before God that I would never go to hospital with her again, but rely on the Lord alone.
In my mind, I always had an idea that God would test me at least three times, which I had never told anyone else. However, I had been waiting for these new trials.
One late night in November 2001, while sleeping, I had a dream that something seemed to have happened to my daughter. When I woke up, the first thing I did was touch her (my daughter was sleeping next to me at that time), and found that she was actually having a seizure. Turning on the light and waking up my husband, I then knelt down and prayed for about half an hour. My daughter slowly stopped convulsing. That was the second trial. However, I knew there would be the third one.
Right before the Spring Festival in 2001, on the evening of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, again in the middle of the night, I saw something happen to my daughter in a dream, which coincided with the reality that she was having another seizure. I woke my husband up again before I knelt down and prayed to God. As a result, my daughter stopped convulsing and showed signs of recovery after I prayed for a short while, as told by my husband. After praying, I became very peaceful in my heart and no longer worried about the child.
From that time until now, it’s been 21 years since my daughter ever had a seizure. Also from that day, her health began to improve little by little.
For more than eight years before that, my daughter could not stand upright at all. Not being able to even sit up, she could only lie down. Her body would get better a little bit after having a convulsion for a month or two before being afflicted with another convulsion for which her body was completely paralyzed again...
Since the last convulsion at the age of eight, my daughter's physical condition has gradually begun to improve. Never having another convulsion again, her body had gradually become stronger even though she couldn’t stand up.
When I had some church work to do, served in the choir, or took part in preaching from the podium, many believers took turns taking care of my two children. They brought my daughter to their homes during the day. Then I took her home after serving at night. My son was healthy and often stayed at these believers’ homes day and night. They told me, “Sister C, don’t worry, we will take good care of your children, while you just serve with peace of mind.” Whoever had time would look after them before another person took over in a few days. Sometimes even I didn’t know whose home the children were at.
To help my daughter learn how to walk, I bought her an adult walker. In 2020, we also found a therapist who is specialized in whole-body rehabilitation. He was very sympathetic to my daughter. Knowing that my family was having financial difficulties because of her condition, he decided to provide my daughter with treatment products for free.
One afternoon in April, I stayed at home with my daughter. Swiping my phone, I didn't notice that she slowly stood up from the stool by herself without holding anything to support her. I was shocked at seeing this.
After realizing what happened, I quickly videotaped her standing up with my mobile phone, and sent it to her therapist.
Afterword:
Sister C became a Christian in 1990 and later she was the leader of a local church from 2015 to 2021, serving the church as well as participating in the choir for a long time. After leaving the position as the leader of the church, C began to focus on looking after her daughter and rehabilitating her body. She said that she was hugely encouraged by her daughter being able to stand up. She would continue to persevere with her until she fully recovered.
Pastor S happily shared that apparently, it seemed to be a miracle that C’s daughter successfully stood up after having been paralyzed for so many years. However, behind the miracle, C and her daughter kept their faith and never gave up, believing that when they firmly trusted in God, He would surely give them a way out.
"After C's daughter could stand up successfully, I visited them at home once. I went to pick up an express package with her daughter who spent more than half an hour walking about 800 meters with an adult walker, which moved me very much. She believed that she would fully recover, and even hoped to have a family and learn to drive in the future.” Pastor S said that rather than simply knowing it as a miraculous story or testimony, we actually should see the power of faith which would not be defeated by reality. We should always believe and hope, and always find a way out, which is what everyone can practice in life.
- Translated by Shuya Wang
Testimony: Paralyzed Daughter Stands Up After Being Bedridden for 28 Years
