I was very ill early last year, and was taken into the RUH. My memory for a while is very hazy, but apparently, my spinal cord was being crushed by my spine at the top of my neck. I have seen the MR scan recently, and I now understand why the doctors wanted to operate.

Without the operation I would have become paralysed and then died.

I prayed about it, and felt straight away at peace about deciding to go ahead with the operation, even after I learned that it had only a 30/40 percent chance of it succeeding.

I knew that the Lord had told me to go ahead.

I am now at home, and recovering very slowly. I know that God wanted me to live.

Val Wilkinson