The Christian Lifestyle Magazine, Issue 12

TESTIMONY
where I can get the best services and
booked me for CT Scan for following
my Dr continued to manage my pain
Lord the only provider who has our
day, then Mamo, then Biopsy, then
very well. I underwent 6 rounds of
life plans at the palm of His hand,
brain can and the settlement was the
chemo in 4 months. Praise the Lord,
presented them with a wonderful
engagement of the Oncologist and
the cancer is not detected in any
Zonnezicht Lifestyle Living Durbanville
even then God showed up big time.
of the tests. I can walk, I am driving
where there was good services
My PA, PR daughter kept wonderful
myself around, I cook my own meals,
needed at the time like Health
communication between siblings, my
taking all precautions about my bones
Services on site, food management
friends, doctors and Mom My world
whilst doing exercises as well we are
team and incredible benefits that
stood still and the spiritual battle for
still jourbying with my Doctor with the
mean I am never alone. In a month,
my life began in earnest and by this
bones. He is so determined to take me
my kids and grandsons packed up
time my daughter was concerned with
back to the tennis courtmy favorite
my house, put things in storage and
moved me into my new sanctuary.
In the meantime, my daughter was
dissatisfied with the diagnosis of a
pinched nerve even though I was
going to physio every week, the
my mental faculties and
felt that Meds were
impacting me negatively
and that made her to
drive all the way from
George again to hold
“SURELY
GOODNESS AND
MERCY SHALL
FOLLOW ME ALL
sport, and I have been
given new life. BY MY
GOD. I'M FIRING WITH
ALL MY PLUGS IN THE
FIELD OF MY FATHER
WITH THE MINISTRY
By: Dr. Fay
pain was not getting better, and she
was uneasy about the degeneration
of my mobility. She spoke to my
physiotherapist who had already
expressed her dissatisfaction and
requested xrays to see what is
going on with my spine. The x-rays
showed that L1, L3,L5 vertebrae had
become osteoporatic and brittle and
conversations with the
Doctors face to face.
Within 2 days of her
arrival, she managed to
have me transferred to
another hospital that
works with my medical
aid and was also able
to engage with my new
THE DAYS OF MY
LIFE AND I WILL
DWELL IN THE
HOUSE OF THE
LORD FOREVER.”
(PSALM 23V6)
HE CALLED ME FOR.
When the diagnosis
became apparent,
the shofar blew, and I
requested prayer from
intercessors in my
wide network of prayer
warriors around the
world and they did what
a specialist intervention was required
oncologist regarding my meds. After
they like best, PRAYER. My spiritual
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me
beside still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth
me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy
rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23v1-4).
These are the words of King David and these are the
words that became so true for me as I walked in the
valley of the shadow of death…cancer. It crept up on
me like a thief in the night that I never saw coming.
This is a victory story of the Goodness of God in my
life, how I have come to know the Lord as Jehovah
Rafa - My healer.
I, being an elderly mother of ten children turned 71
this last April, diabetic and asthmatic found myself
confronted face to face with an uncircumcised
Phillistine and right at Jobs situation of being
diagnosed Stage 4, Higher grade Cancer classified
as VERY AGGRESSIVE TYPE in November last
2021, after being aggressively attacked and dragged
closer to the grave by Covid 19 for a month in July.
The prognosis was not good and the doctors were
certain that I only had two possible outcomes, death
or permanently bed ridden but God had another
outcome…Cancer free.
After the deadly Monster corona virus still on my
recovery stages, September I started struggling with
excruciating and unbearable pain on my back that
crept fiery down my right leg. The Dr diagnosed
this as a pinched nerve and referred me to undergo
physiotherapy to help with the situation and the
physiotherapist immediately put me on a cruch.
The pain was so severe that it rendered me unable
to drive, unable to get out of bed and since I was
living alone at the time, this meant I wasn’t able to
do anything for myself. One of my daughters that is
based here in Cape Town contacted her baby sister
that lives in George and told her to come down to
Cape Town because my situation was not good.
My son in law came to drop my daughter and two
grandsons on my doorstep and she immediately
contacted her siblings to report that my situation was
not good. She took over the running of the house,
driving me to physio and and from that point took
over as my PA and Carer and a family PR at the same
time, getting involved in all consultations ensuring
that she spoke to the Doctors to understand what
was going on. Within a week my kids had decided
the time for me to live on my own was over and they
took a decision that I move to a retirement village
urgently. The medical aid plan I am on,
does not pay for specialists relating
to anything to do with the back. My
kids rallied together and decided
they would pay for the costs. On 15
November, one of my daughters took
me to the emergency room as the
pain had become unbearable and I
was admitted by a Neurosurgeon. For
the first time in over two months, I
was pain free. My pain was managed
so well that I was able to sleep
through the night. I was informed
that I might need surgery based on
the x-rays and a reference letter
from the orthopaedic surgeon, but
the neurosurgeon needed to run
other tests like MRI and the results
were a blow more especially to the
Surgeon and something funny was
my calmness and peace I had inside
and at that time I told myself that My
Jesus will never fail me, He is the only
Healer I know, I said very encouraging
words to the Doctor that let us fight
together, right there in disbelief he
having lost my mind for 2 weeks, I
started to feel like myself once more.
Dr Loots (my oncologist) and his team
have been incredible and been so
intentional about walking this journey
with us. My daughter was by my side
in the hospital from 7 in the morning
until 7 at night. After being bed
ridden in hospital for a month, I was
discharged and this was the beginning
of the fight for my life. I couldn’t walk.
couldn’t sit or turn on my own on the
bed, couldn’t get off the bed, was just
a log, black as a three legged pot thin
as a straight pin I had to use a bedpan
and wear a diaper. The cancer had
attacked my spine severely. All I could
do was ly in bed and commune with
my Father in heaven EVERY SECOND.
Palliative chemo was the only option
available to me and this was intended
to attack the cancer aggressively and
at the same time, the work began to
strengthen my bones that had become
very fragile. I did not struggle with
any side effects from the chemo and
parents, Papa Walter and Mama
Coleen Snyman were by my side every
single step of the way and visited
often in hospital and home after
discharge and spoke with me daily
via WhatsApp and phone calls all the
time. My Church praying feverently
as well I cried out to the Lord and
prayed without ceasing. I started
taking up holy communion every
evening at 18:00. This was my time to
take of His body that was broken for
me and drink of His blood that was
spilled for me so I can be made whole
both spiritually and physically. I felt
prompted to host a Prayer Connect ( a
program that I was doing before taken
down by the thief) to give thanks for
all He has done in March and to start
raising awareness on cancer, doing It
was a huge success. Then I was again
prompted by the Lord in my spirit to
host an online Talkshow and call it “BY
THE WELL WITH DR FAY”, I did not
have the energy or the resources, but
the Lord made it happen.
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