Species appropriation.
Posted on 11/09/2019 7:21:00 AM PST by daniel1212
What is the craziest unexplained event you have witnessed? Jennifer Scholl, MSW from The Ohio State University (2018) First, let me say that I am and remain a huge sceptic, even after this happened. I’ve thought of every possible explanation and I still have no idea how this happened. Whether you choose to believe me or not, I have no reason to make this up and like I said, I’m skeptical every time I hear a story like this. But nonetheless, here is the completely unexplainable event I witnessed:
In 1999, my mother was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and was put on multiple drugs, including prednisone. She was having seizures and her over all mental and physical functioning were being severely impacted by the tumor. Her doctor very stupidly failed to mention that the high dose of prednisone he’d put her on causes potassium to leech out of the body, so she went into hypokalemia. Her heart stopped and the jolt when she hit the floor was hard enough to cause it to restart, enabling her to call 911. I was asleep at the time in the house and woke up to my brother telling me that police and paramedics were downstairs working on her.
We kept an eye on the situation that night because it was looking catastrophic, as they had to keep going back in to resuscitate her. Eventually we went home (they kicked us out basically) and just hoped she’d make it through the night while they pumped her full of potassium and other drugs through her IV. The next morning, we hadn’t heard a word and assumed she was doing fine. I got up and came in to see her and was relieved to find her awake and alert. She was also very loopy and positively euphoric. The first thing she told me was that she’d left her body the night before, and found herself walking with Jesus on a beach. She was so ecstatic, talking about this amazing experience she’d had, that Jesus had told her it wasn’t her time yet and that she still had many years yet to live.
My response was… let’s just say there was a lot smiling, nodding, placating “oh wow that sounds amazing, Mom”-type responses from me. I was secretly thinking that whatever drugs they’d given her must have been… uh… the “good stuff” if you know what I mean! So after maybe 15 or 20 minutes of this, her nurse came in to check her over, and so this woman also got to hear the story, and like me was clearly very amused and just going along with it.
When the nurse pulled back the sheets to look at my mother’s feet and ankles, I heard the nurse gasp and freeze, like she had no idea what to do. I looked over and saw what had her so shocked, and needless to say, I did the same. My mother’s legs were covered in sand, almost up to her knees. Like she’d been walking on a windy beach and the sand had gradually got stuck to her legs as she walked in the surf. The nurse peeled her socks off (which were the socks issued by the hospital and put on her feet the night before), and found that her feet were also covered in sand, and it was even between her toes. She ran out to get other staff in, and before we knew it, there was a parade of doctors, nurses and patient aides coming through the room to look at my mom’s sand-covered feet. I could hear people in the hallway debating how a woman in Ohio, nowhere near any sand at all, whose heart had stopped several times in the night and who had sensors on her body to detect if she got out of bed, was able to walk through sand, despite the fact that she hadn’t been covered in any when she got there. If she had been covered in sand, they would have noticed and cleaned her off when they dressed her and put the socks on her feet. No one was ever able to come up with a logical explanation, it’s not like they were keeping sand traps in the hallway! And we certainly weren’t keeping big sand pits, or any sand period, at home. They later gave her the socks in a baggie, still covered in sand.
In the end, my mother did survive the brain tumor, despite being told she had 6 months at most. She found what was at the time a new, experimental treatment, called stereotactic radiosurgery and underwent the procedure as only the 6th patient to ever have it done, and in the end it saved her life. She had more than 15 happy years with us before dying of breast cancer almost 4 years ago, and always kept those socks as a reminder of the time she walked with Jesus. So whether you believe it or not, that is the strangest, most unexplainable event I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
Still chasing golf balls, but usually in daylight.
Isn’t Whoopie’s blonde colored hair cultural appropriation?
Amen!
I can imagine someone listening to Jerry McCauley preach during the era of the Civil War. It wasn’t that long ago that he was stealing the shoes off his dead babies feet to go out and buy a bottle of liquor.
Folks, God’s salvation (not man’s) is real.
An American president receiving a Nobel Peace prize for being black and having absolutely no accomplishments after being elected. Then that said Nobel laureate starting multiple wars, establishing, funding, supporting a terrorists group that killed so many across 5+ countries. In addition he paid our enemies to develop nuclear weapons, backstabbing allies and overthrow their governments. Increased racial animosity, causing police to be killed for no reason and destroyed years of progress in his country of many economic/social areas. And that President is still celebrated as some sort of messiah by way too many people.
I know, I know it’s almost impossible to believe but it happened. I swear. Nobody will believe me.
I have always thought that I had a personal relationship with Rachael from Card Member Services. We chat often but she will never give me her address. It now appears that she is seeing someone else. I’m heartbroken.
I think he was trying to make a big deal over the misspelling of “skeptic” as “sceptic” - even though the author correctly spelled “skeptical” a few sentences later.
I believe it! Angels do appear exactly when you need them.
The MSM supporting as authentic the obviously fake
Kenyan Hawaii birth certificate.
I argued with my wife once.
Later she came apologized and said she was wrong
You asked.
It was like Haley’s Comet though....never to be repeated.
Species appropriation.
My grandmother saw it twice.
“Sweet story and I would love to believe it. But I don’t.”
Yeah.
It’s a weird thing that God would do as a sign.
But there is zero information or detail. Name of woman? Date it happened. City. Hospital. Doctor. Nurse. Names of myriad witnesses who went to see the sand and debated it. A photo. A hospital report. etc...
It is a nice story and to me the sand part is unnecessary. It actually detracts from the message.
Sweet story and I would love to believe it. But I don’t.
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I barely saw it last time around.
Went WAY out in the boonies to avoid light pollution and had clear skies.
It was just too faint to be appreciated much.
Amen.
Indeed. Brother Andrew was a personal hero of ours.
She was 12 at her first viewing and skies were darker. It’s never been excessively luminous.
Finding the 805 freeway almost completely empty at 4:30 PM on a non-holiday Monday. Wondered who to call to report a mass alien abduction of my fellow commuters. Then I rounded the bend and saw the traffic moving at its usual crawl ahead.
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