Mark Wallace shares his story of contracting COVID-19. After being placed on a ventilator, the doctors gave his family no hope of his survival. After coming out of a coma Mark hears an angel for three nights declare to him that he is not done.
Mark Wallace has been the Sr Pastor of Living Word Fellowship in Dinuba, CA since May 1996. He has been married to his wife, Tammy Wallace, since July 1983. He and his wife have 3 sons, who are all married, and currently have 6 grandchildren.
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20/20 the famous year of the covid lockdowns.
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Um if my Mech recollection hits me right around March or so.
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Is when it started to get serious and even then if you
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didn't have covid, you still may not have known.
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And there's a point where you not, you, but other people may
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not have even known anybody with covid yet.
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And so is conspiratorial, why are they shutting down churches
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and is this a government takeover?
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But it hit you from the very beginning, right?
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So what what was your experience there?
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Yeah, we were going along just like everybody else with getting
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word in late, March that all the shutdown's were happening.
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All of Fresno County, all of the area where we live was shutting
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down. And and of course we'd never
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seen anything like this taking place.
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So we you know stayed at home for the most part but I still
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had some errands that I needed to run and so I was Running a
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few errands and my wife had been really sick with a heart
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condition and she was actually on a heart monitor.
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So, at night, they is, she was on this 24/7.
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She kept blacking out and having all kinds of problems, and it
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was simultaneous with covid breaking out.
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And so, in early April, she went to Kaiser To have a pacemaker.
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Put in. And when she did it was an
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emergency. She had to get in there, get the
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pacemaker because she kept blacking out and they were very
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concerned. So she went in and they put her
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this is at the very early stage of covid.
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So there were no protocols in place and so they put her in the
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ER, right next to a guy who evidently had.
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And all it was was a little paper curtain, separating them.
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And this guy was hacking up a lung.
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I mean, it was, it was terrible terrible.
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She didn't think anything of it went in.
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Got her pacemaker, came home a couple days later and then
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started running some fever which we thought had to do with the
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pacemaker. So we contacted the hospital,
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she kept getting worse and then I started getting sick and and
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we realize this had nothing to do with a pacemaker and indeed.
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She had gotten covid from probably that guy in the ER and
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then brought it home. And there were a total of nine
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people in our family that got covid during that time and
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myself and my wife were the worst cases.
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She, she actually had it just as bad as me.
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She should have been in the hospital right there next to me,
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so you Both get covid in a bad way.
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And and how is yours different that you end up in the hospital?
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And she did it. Well, like I said, we were both
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really sick but mine, I was so weak that I literally can.
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I had to, I had to crawl to the restroom.
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I mean, I I didn't even have the strength to walk, and I was just
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so weak when people would call and check on me and my voice.
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It was just a whisper and And and I was labored in my
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breathing and I hate all over my body.
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That's one of the symptoms of covid.
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I mean, it just felt like my bones were were full of of pain
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and Agony and it was just excruciating throughout my body.
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We were running fever, we were, we were both throwing up.
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We just had horrible horrible symptoms, but mine got so bad
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and so Weak. And I believe the reason that I
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got weaker than my wife was because she forced herself to
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eat and drink during the time and I'm a terrible patient and I
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refuse to drink anything, it just didn't taste.
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Good. Couldn't eat anything, couldn't
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keep anything down and so so I got sicker quicker and and
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deeper than she did. I lost all my strength and
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Finally ended up where the my son actually called Kaiser.
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And said something's going on, he's not good.
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Please call check on him. They did.
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And within literally 30 seconds of being on the phone with me,
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they asked for my wife and they said you got to get him to the
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ER course we both got covid. So, nobody could take us and we
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didn't want to expose them. So we called an ambulance and I
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went Ambulance there. And yeah, they admitted me into
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the ER, about one in the afternoon, on April, the 9th,
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okay? And you end up on the
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ventilator, which I may be fast-forwarding, but that's not
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a good sign. Especially in those early days,
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right? No.
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Not at all, by midnight that night, which is, you know, the
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early morning hours of April, the 10th, the doctor had called
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my wife and said, Look, this is terrible.
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He's got pneumonia. It's it's, you know, covid and
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monia which is very dangerous and he has lungs are filling up
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and we've got to get him on the ventilator.
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We've got to intubate him if we don't, he's not going to make it
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and she asked him she said what what are the chances if we don't
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do it? And he said, he has no chance of
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living he'll be gone in 24 to 48 hours.
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And if we do the in the as a slim chance but slim is better
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than none. And at that time we didn't know
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but we knew the numbers were high but we had no idea how high
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88% in the early days of those that went on the vent.
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Never came off of the other twelve percent that did come off
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only one or two out of those 12 ever made it home.
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And so literally Ali. When the doctor said slim
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chance, I had a one to two percent chance of living in ever
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seen my family again. Yeah.
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So it's basically slim did not. So when they were putting on the
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ventilators and those days was is really just a prolonged, the
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inevitable wasn't it. Well it was all the all the vent
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did was give you a fighting chance and keep you alive long
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enough that hopefully they could work it out of your body out of
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your your system. And that, you know, all it did
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was buy a time, right? And not much have it for most
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people. So why did they put you in an
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induced coma? Well, when they put you on the
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vid and I was in such organ failure, all of my Organs were
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shutting down my liver and shut down.
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My kidneys had shut down. Of course, my lungs were filling
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up and then, and in my heart was racing to try to keep up with
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the rest of my body. So I was in multiple organ
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failure and so they put me in the induced, coma, the Deep coma
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because they had to put me in the prone position which is face
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down 16 hours at a time. And when your face down for
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that, Amount of time in the reason they put you face down,
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by the way, is because it frees up your lungs a little bit.
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Helps you breathe a little better.
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And so, literally, the only thing, keeping me alive was the
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machine and they put me in the coma because if you're awake,
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it's excruciating pain and with the the ventilator and the tube
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down your throat. And then of course, they also
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literally restrain my own Had my legs to the bed because it's
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very very dangerous that if your arms are free and even when
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you're in the coma by by just your Shear reaction, you're
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going to reach up and try to pull the tube.
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And there have been many many cases around the country where
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people pulled the tube because they weren't restrained and they
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ended up dying and so they had me fully restrained laying there
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in that deep coma for 10 days. Sighs.
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I have no recollection. I was actually on the vent for
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14 days but 10 of those days I was in a coma and I have
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virtually no memory. I have just a couple of memories
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from that time. So what was going on outside of
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the coma outside of the hospital room?
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With your wife, with your family?
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You're the pastor had pastor of a church.
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What was going on with your church all around?
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Well, my wife and I have Policy. And it is a that we we narrow
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the troops, we surround the wagons so to speak whenever
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we're going through crisis and so she had not announced
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anything on Facebook. People knew I was in the
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hospital and that I had covid, but they had no idea was on a
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ventilator, nothing was out. That was only privileged
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information with a few CORE family.
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As and friends are from around the nation, people that we knew
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would pray, my wife knew that, that's how we operate.
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And so, we did that. And my sons and my
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daughter-in-laws, my grandkids, everybody was, of course,
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freaking out. And it was, it was a hard time,
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you know, I have one son that was in Nashville and lives
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there. And so it was really hard on him
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and his family being so far away.
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Way. And then, even my other two
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sons, and their families being right here, you know, in our
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backyard. So to speak, you know, being
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that close and you still can't go to the hospital.
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You can't see your loved ones. It was, it was a terrible
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terrible time after 10 days in a coma.
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How did you come out or did they take you out of it?
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And what was, you know, what was the purpose for that?
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What happened next? Dude, it was, it was amazing.
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It was miraculous because on that Friday prior to me, waking
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up. I woke up on the 10th of April
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and on the 8th of April on that Friday, the doctors called my
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wife and they said listen. And we've done everything.
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We can, there's nothing we can do, he's not going to make it.
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And my wife had felt like she'd heard the voice of God actually
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speak to her and say, he's going to live and not die.
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And I'm going to get Glory out of this.
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And so she talked to the doctor with my family, he had all the
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family gathered on a phone call and said, he's just not going to
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make it. And, by the way, this was a
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Hindu doctor. And so he's not a man of like
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faith in any way, shape or form, and he's just stating the facts.
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And, and he's thinking my wife is delusional because she's not
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accepting this. And she, she finally said, look,
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I get it. I hear everything you're saying.
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I understand that my husband has no chance of living but I need
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you to appease me and just tell me what has to happen for him to
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come off the vent, just tell me what has to happen.
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So he went down this whole list. He says kidneys are going to
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have to start functioning his liver and right on down the line
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and said, but ma'am, you need to understand your husband is not
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coming home. He will not make it off the
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ventilator. He has 24 to 48 hours to live
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And so my wife is like, that Braveheart Spirit, man.
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She just took off and prayer began to gather.
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She announced to everyone over Facebook.
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And she, she put this this call out to arms.
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So to speak and said, my husband's life is in the
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balance, but he will live and not die.
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We need people to pray and can it was the most amazing thing.
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Over 20 reports of people around the world literally all
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over the world started praying. And on that Sunday, miraculously
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I came out of the coma, I woke up and of course I'm freaking
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out when I woke up because I my my my recollection was just
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being wheeled off to ICU, and they sedated.
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Me. And by the time I got to, I see
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you, I was out when they intubated me.
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So I have no recollection of any of that.
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And so, when I wake up, I can't move.
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I'm tied down. I got just a loincloth across
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me. I'm totally naked.
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I don't understand what's going on.
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I'm in this ice cold, you know, hospital room.
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All these machines on and I feel the tube down my throat and and
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I don't know. Know what's happening around me?
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I had no idea that it was really an answer to prayer.
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So you're awake. You're still all hooked up.
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What are the doctors? Saying at this point that you to
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your wife that you might make it or they don't know what's
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happening. No.
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They said basically he's come out of the coma, he's awake and
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he's alert and he's able to answer questions nodding his
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head moving his toes so we know that being in the coma did not
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cause any brain damage. They you know they didn't know
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and I was able to follow basic commands but I still was tied
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down restrained and the tube down my throat and, and
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everything in the reason that up by the way that I was naked was
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because the fever's were so high during those 10 days that they
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would pack me a nice to try to bring the temperature down.
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So that's, that's why that was, but no, the doctors were still
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saying, look, nothing's happening.
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This was on Sunday. Nothing is happening.
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He's out of the coma but nothing has changed, but my wife and my
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family took that as a sign. I was going to live and they
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just kept praying. And the next day,
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supernaturally, my kidney started functioning and they
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drained 6 liters of fluid off of my kidneys and and and from my
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lungs. I mean it was it was just toxic
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fluid that I was literally drowning in and and out of
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nowhere, my kidneys and my lungs started functioning and the
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doctors were freaking out. They didn't know how this was
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happening and of course they're reporting that to my wife and
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all that did was put fuel to the fire that that I was going to
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live and not die. And You Begin hearing, he's
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shouting voice. Yeah.
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The Night. So so I'm in the coma for 10
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days but I didn't come off the vent until the 14th day the
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morning of the 14th day. So on day number 11, that night.
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I'm in my room, I'm on the vent and the nurse comes in in the
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middle of the night. And I hear this yelling going
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on. I mean, it was like thunder, it
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was, it was just crazy. Easy and I don't know what the
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deal was, but in my mind I reasoned that there was this
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doctor that was in the room next to me.
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And maybe that room next to me was, I don't know, an office or
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whatever. Because he was talking to
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somebody, and he, and he just kept talking and talking and
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talking, but he wasn't just talking.
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He was yelling at the top of his lungs and he was prophesying and
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making declarations over me was preaching.
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All kinds of sermons and and just amazing stuff about faith
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and about miracles. And and started saying you live
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and not die. And with long life I'm going to
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satisfy you and your voice will be a voice to the world and on
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and on and on all these all these declarations, if you will
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start coming out and to me in my ear, it was just this muffled
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Sound. But it was echoing.
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I can't really describe it except for, you know, how you
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can be in a room. And next door, you can hear
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what's going on, maybe, thin walls or whatever.
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Sure. And that's how I felt.
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But that wasn't the case at all. And that went on for three
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nights three nights over and over and over the second night,
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it was going on and Again, I couldn't talk because I was
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still on the vent and nurses who had come in, and I'd be looking
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at him. Like, why aren't you, how are
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you not here in this? What's going on?
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Because they were oblivious to anything.
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I was hearing to them. The room was quiet.
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Silent, nothing. And I couldn't reason this, I
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couldn't understand that I was actually hearing an angel at
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That time I didn't know, I didn't know what it was.
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I just knew what I was hearing. Yes.
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Oh that did that thought come to you later?
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How did you come to the conclusion like well and
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respect? That would have been the voice
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of an Angel. Yeah it was crazy.
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The third day that I heard it was the day that they had
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removed me from the ventilator and then that night I heard the
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voice again and it was continuing echoing.
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Same thing over and over this time, a nurse came in and I
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could barely talk. It was a whisper and I said, who
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is that guy at that? Just keeps yelling.
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And she said, what are you talking about?
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I said you don't hear that. She said, there's nothing going
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on mr. Wallace.
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It's the middle of the night you're hearing things.
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And I said no I said I hear you. You're talking to me.
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She said yeah and I I said you don't hear that Echo that.
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I mean, it's thundering in the room.
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You don't hear this guy and she said, I'd there's nothing going
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on. You're hallucinating and I
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looked at her and I said, are you real?
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And she said, well, of course and I said and you can't hear
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that. She said I don't hear anything
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so she left the room took off all of her, you know, our masks
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and all the stuff and they had helmets and gloves and I They
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look like something from an alien movie or something.
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When they were coming in and the next morning they put me on the
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phone with my wife and I was telling my wife about it.
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This Doctor Who kept yelling and prophesying and preaching.
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And I said, man, they're paying him to, you know, to be a
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physician not to preach and I can't believe this guy.
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It is really terrible, he won't shut up and I can't even sleep
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because Cuz of it and she started laughing and she said,
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Mark that's not a doctor, she said it's an angel and she read
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me on the day that the doctor called and said there's no hope
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and I was still induced in the coma.
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There was a girl in our church who is one of our prayer
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warriors. I mean this gal really sees
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Supernatural stuff going on and she had a vision that morning.
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And send it to my wife, text it to her.
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So we still have it all written out and said that she saw in
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this vision and Angel standing at the foot of my bed with a
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sword drawn and and yelling and out of his mouth was coming, all
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these prophetic words and all these declarations and they were
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landing on the walls and on the bed, sheets and all over the the
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medical equipment, all over the floor and Gwen it would land on
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the wall. It was like golden words that
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like glitter and the words were written out all over the walls
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and all over the floor. And she said there is an angel
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in the room with my pastor and he is doing Warfare for his
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life. And and so I knew at that moment
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when my wife told me that this is what I'd been hearing I
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couldn't see any of it. I never saw the the angel, but I
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heard him loud and clear. And then remember, now, she
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didn't even know that I was on the ventilator, nobody knew at
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this moment that I was even on the vet until Saturday.
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And so, so when she says this, she's getting this totally in
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this Supernatural realm and she's getting this download as
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what I call it of, Vision of what's really going on because
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men can there's things going on in the natural and then there's
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the supernatural. There is a spirit realm, all
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around us and demons are in operation.
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Angels are in operation, there's Warfare.
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There's all kinds of stuff. It's actually more real than the
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world that we live in and what we can see and feel and I think
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that that and I'm fact I know that That people are given
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insight and they are able to see into that realm and that's what
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was going on with. With this, we call them
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intercessors but with this gal or church a lot of people if
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they've had experience, even similar to yours, they end up
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changing their life, their careers, and they go into
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Ministry and they become a pastor.
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You were a pastor, how has this affected your life since then?
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Well, you can't go through something like I did, and it not
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change you the whole experience, you know, I went through all the
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things of, well, if you're a pastor, why'd, you get sick.
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Why didn't God protect you? Why this?
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Why that? I just it has changed me and
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transformed the way I look at everything in life.
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First of all, getting a new lease on life and just just
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Should be dead but that lets me know God's not done and and I'm
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not done. God's still got something that
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he wants to do through my life and probably greater than than
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all my years of ministry prior. And so, it's changed me in that
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way. It's also helped me reprioritize
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some things. You know, my whole life is
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Ministry. Always has been, but family is,
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Is is taking a lot more of a front row seat in my life and
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just being more present with my kids, my grandkids, my family
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and and it's got to ask not being locked into everything
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else. I was going to ask if your
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family would say it's it's changed you oh yeah yeah
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absolutely. They see a difference, you know
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when I when I came out of the hospital I still had and I was
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dealing with some PTSD. From all the trauma and went
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through a little bit of therapy and everything.
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Just because it was, it was just so traumatic man.
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And and there were so many questions and so many things
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and, you know, when I got home, I was still suffering feeling,
00:25:52
like, in the middle of the night, I was choking and I
00:25:55
couldn't breathe and panic attacks and Nightmares and you
00:26:01
know, all kinds of things that were still haunting.
00:26:04
On me. And then there was honestly, it
00:26:07
was really weird, cuz I felt this tremendous guilt that I
00:26:12
lived. And that's part of the PTSD.
00:26:15
I lived in so many people younger than me.
00:26:18
I mean, I was 57 at the time and there were people in their 30s,
00:26:25
that were dying of covid. And young men, young ladies who
00:26:31
had their whole life in front of him and Children.
00:26:34
I know one guy who was actually in Ministry and he died of
00:26:40
covid. And his wife was pregnant with
00:26:43
her fourth child and and here he dies.
00:26:47
And so, when I hear reports like that and hear of that stuff,
00:26:51
I'm, you know, I dealt with a lot of guilt that I lived and
00:26:56
God why, and all of that. And so I had to sort through a
00:27:00
lot of stuff in the midst of it. You know, people Look at
00:27:04
Miracles and they think hot so Supernatural.
00:27:08
It's so awesome and God just waves a magic wand and boom.
00:27:12
Some happens. My miracle was messing men.
00:27:16
It was messy. It was because any time you're
00:27:19
in a miracle, the very nature of a miracle is the fact that
00:27:23
you're at the end of everything natural.
00:27:26
If God doesn't show up and do something Supernatural, you're
00:27:30
going to die? Sure you're not going to make it
00:27:32
and and so All of your circumstances, all of your gear,
00:27:38
your feelings, your emotions. Everything is is sunk into it.
00:27:43
And so you got to sort all that out, you know, and in the
00:27:48
miracle as well. So, yeah, we were kids, I don't
00:27:52
know. Well, that answer your question.
00:27:54
Well, yeah. How did that answer your
00:27:57
question? I mean, where did you end up
00:27:59
wears an answer for you as far as if you get the guilt behind
00:28:03
you what's your mission? You get up in the morning.
00:28:06
Do you still feel the guilt or what's your Thrive for the day?
00:28:10
No, no. I you know through the therapy
00:28:13
that I went through after I came out of the hospital, first of
00:28:17
all, just coming out of the hospital was miraculous but then
00:28:22
and there was, I mean, I was the only person to live In all of
00:28:26
Fresno County and come off the vent and make it home for months
00:28:31
and months and months. I think they finally got one
00:28:33
more but during those months, but it was a lot of fanfare, a
00:28:40
lot of the news, a lot of all that.
00:28:42
And and it was, it was crazy. A front front page of the Fresno
00:28:47
Bee on Sunday morning and all of that.
00:28:50
And yet when I came home, they told me it'd be 6.
00:28:55
To nine months before I could even operate without oxygen and
00:29:01
without a walker and literally in two weeks man, I threw the
00:29:06
Walker away. I was walking around and within
00:29:10
two and a half weeks. I didn't have any Oxygen going
00:29:13
on and my room, my recovery was fully there now, I still had a
00:29:19
lot of fatigue, a lot of symptoms, a lot of stuff that's
00:29:23
that's post covid. But I said that to say that
00:29:29
during that whole year of 2020, right?
00:29:31
Toward the tail end of the year a book or nothing was on my
00:29:37
mind. It was just trying to sort
00:29:39
through it all and whenever I went through the therapy a
00:29:44
really helped me it helped me gain perspective.
00:29:47
It helped me. Look at everything from a
00:29:49
different angle and I didn't have any nightmares anymore.
00:29:54
I wasn't waking Up with panic attacks and then around December
00:29:59
of 2020. I went into this deep reflection
00:30:04
of life and just began to kind of take everything.
00:30:09
I believed, all of my priorities, everything going on
00:30:13
in my life and kind of jump up and down on it.
00:30:16
If you will, to see if it would, hold me.
00:30:18
And my Doctrine, my theology, what I believed about God, and
00:30:22
who he is. And, and how I could best serve
00:30:26
him the rest of my life. And and so it was a month of
00:30:32
major major reflection there around the holidays, and I'd say
00:30:37
about mid-January. I came out of that reflective
00:30:41
time, just more resolved, more ambition, more more
00:30:48
determination. That I was going to fulfill the
00:30:52
plan of God on my life. And that, I had lived because he
00:30:57
had a plan for my life and he wasn't done with me and I wasn't
00:31:01
done. And so I kind of map that whole
00:31:04
thing out my wife and I started another 501, c, 3 non-profit,
00:31:10
where I'm pouring into pastors and I'm doing things, I'm still
00:31:14
pastoring or Church, of course, but but now I'm really mentoring
00:31:20
and, and coaching, if you will, a lot of pastors around the
00:31:24
country and this, Whole new realm of ministry is opened up
00:31:28
for me where I can help them. Nice.
00:31:33
Where can people find your your book?
00:31:37
They can log on, it's only on the internet.
00:31:39
I do not have it on Amazon right now.
00:31:42
I've felt not to do that yet, but it's at the website.
00:31:48
I'm not done. Online and there's no
00:31:53
punctuation in that. So, the little after the eye and
00:31:57
it's lowercase across just I'm not done Dot online and they can
00:32:02
get my book there and it's really cool because at That
00:32:06
website. There's also a QR code in the
00:32:09
back of the book or you can go on the website and you can look
00:32:13
at the gallery and as shows all the pictures of everything we
00:32:17
went through and it puts it in time line with the pages in the
00:32:21
book so that everything is correlated and people can
00:32:25
actually get a visual of what I'm talking about in the book,
00:32:28
so good. Yeah, I'll leave a link in the
00:32:31
notes. All right.
00:32:32
Thank you, Pastor Mark, it's amazing.
00:32:34
I appreciate your time. Hey, God bless.
00:32:37
Thanks man.