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Prayers Answered: A Miracle Recovery
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| Because kids are a blessing of God. | |
| You're really blessed of God to have a wife that loves you and to have kids. | |
| And you lost your leg when you were in your 20s. | |
| You were doing tree trimming type things. | |
| Yep. | |
| So yeah, I was working with a tree stump grinder. | |
| And, you know, it wasn't working right. | |
| And, you know, in Idaho, it blows a lot in the spring. | |
| And I took a step forward to see what was the matter with that tree stump grinder. | |
| And the bottom of my pants had these jogging strings on that you can just pull tight. | |
| And the wind just whipped that string in there and just yanked my leg in. | |
| And, you know, my life changed in a split second. | |
| What was it like when it happened? | |
| What did you sense? | |
| Did you just panic? | |
| Did you go crazy? | |
| You know, I think I did not panic. | |
| I have been blessed that when it seems like when everybody around me is just losing their mind, that is when I thrive. | |
| Wow. | |
| And so, you know, I was able to, you know, tell the guy that was working with me to call an ambulance. | |
| And with my, you know, nursing and paramedic training, I would tied a tourniquet around my leg. | |
| You did it yourself? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yep. | |
| And then I just, you know, sat there and, you know, groaned in, you know, pain and just prayed, you know, for the paramedics to show up as soon as they could. | |
| And so, and, you know, it was, it was interesting, you know, through that prayer, you know, I felt a strong sense of comfort, even though I was in so much pain, you know. | |
| And I remember asking God, you know, help me get through this, you know, because that day my coin was tossed. | |
| Heads, you live. | |
| Tails, you die. | |
| Wow. | |
| It was just so much blood, so much trauma. | |
| Wow. | |
| And it's interesting as it was, when the paramedic show up, it happened to be one of my paramedic teachers. | |
| And so, you know, seeing him was like my prayers have been answered. | |
| You know, I knew at that moment that I was going to live. | |
| Wow. | |