[Miracle] God, Eczema & My Tuesday Miracle...

Published: Fri, 10/21/16

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God, Eczema & My Tuesday Miracle...

Any good story has a back story…this miracle is worth the long read.

I was born with an intense case of eczema. If you are unfamiliar, intensely itchy, dry, flaking skin. It went away in my teens and ever since only once in awhile does a little patch appear and disappear.

Fast forward to 4 years ago. I had just returned to the US after living in Mexico for 2 months after closing my law firm. I noticed a few white spots on my skin. Time passed and I saw more.

I felt afraid. I eventually made the trek to a dermatologist. To get in sooner, I accepted an appointment with the PA (Physician’s Assistant). It was the worst medical appointment I’ve ever had. No ‘bed side manner’ was an understatement. Without speaking, he looked at my spots and began rattling off a scary sounding list of drugs for me to buy.

I finally interrupted and asked what that meant, oh, he confirmed as an aside, yes, I had Vitaligo and no its not curable.

It is a condition where people with darker skin begin having irregular white patches (no skin pigment) all over their body.

I felt terrified, sad and concerned about taking steroid creams (bleh). The cost of the prescriptions he recommended exceeded $300 just for one.

I know that NOTHING happens TO you but THROUGH you. Meaning, I was generating this somehow.

I did some VERY deep inner work over these 4 years to find, release and heal it’s root cause. Plus, I did all the recommended physical things too, like taking Gingko Biloba.

And….I still have spots. MORE now. I couldn’t understand it and mostly distracted myself with other more URGENT concerns (see this week’s Magazine Post on Regrets & Urgency).

Now - 2 months ago. The dryness came, grew, got…WORSE.

Problems are not obstacles to be solved...

I teach problems are NOT problems to be solved, they are directionals pointing the way to something you are missing.

I began trying to figure out what the HELL I was screwing up. I wasn’t successful, which SHOULD have been a hint.

So things get bad enough last week that I awoke in the middle of night itching & frustrated and I asked God, what am I missing? What do I need to do? A list popped clearly into my mind: Get your mammogram, Go to Dermatologist, Buy a new bathroom scale.

Got it. I hopped on it the next day, I couldn’t get anyone on a phone and all the scales seemed “wrong.” I committed to try again on Monday.

Monday – scale? Done. Then I booked my mammogram in 7 minutes, getting a spot on Wednesday (2 days out!). Since I had switched insurance to the kind where you need a referral to a specialist (dermatologist) I had to go see the Primary Physician to get one.

In less than an hour total, I picked a new one (intuition led me to a great one), got them set up as primary with insurance AND got an appointment for next morning 9:15 am Tuesday.

I went – the atmosphere was awesome. EVERYONE was kind & I had the whole lobby laughing. Referral in hand, I call to get the long avoided dermatologist appointment.

I hope you have figured out by now that I didn’t want to go back to one, even though I NEEDED to see one, because of the vitiligo diagnosis and my terrible treatment.

I got in….SAME DAY! 3 hours later to be exact, still Tuesday. Dr. E. was brilliant AND Kind. She told me what to do for my dry spots (that were already vanishing since the time I committed to go). Finally, just before she left, I quietly mentioned the vitiligo and showed her some spots.

She looked at them and looked at me mystified and said… That’s not vitaligo.

And MY WHOLE LIFE SHIFTED.

One of two things had happened – either I was misdiagnosed by the meanie OR I learned the lesson it brought and healed it – EITHER ONE IS A MIRACLE because I have carried this worry for 4 YEARS.

Do you see it? God had to get me to the dermatologist, and not just ANY derm, but THIS one, who could easily spot what it really was (Idiopathic Guttate Hypomelanosis - basically white freckles from sun).

God wanted me to have the RELIEF of this truth, so the 'gone for DECADES' eczema comes back and gets worse and worse and worse until my resigned self finally agrees to go WHERE I NEEDED TO GO TO GET MY MIRACLE.

THAT is how much God loves you (and ME clearly).

I shared my personal story with you to show you that what LOOKS like a CURSE can be the means of Delivering your BLESSING. God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.

Have a story like this? Tell me about it. I LOVE hearing how God shows up for you!

P.S. BIG and Little MIRACLES are happening all the time! Can you see any of yours?? Seeing miracles is something I coach on (Right Sue??)

P.P.S. My email sender AWeber apologized for the 2 hr delay on Wednesday's Focus Mag, they had a glitch :-)

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