‘It wasn’t luck, it was blessing’- Freeman happy a stroke did not take her life
Published:Saturday | February 2, 2019 | 12:00 AM
Mandeville, Manchester:
She got up two years ago, as she usually did, to complete her morning rounds in the house before venturing out. There was no indication that that morning would not go as was expected.
Midway into making breakfast, things took a turn.
“I lit the stove, put my kettle on, put my frying pan on, added the oil and began slicing my ripe plantains to add to the pan. I stood there waiting to turn my slices when I began feeling a funny sensation over my head,” Freeman began.
Thinking it could have been a low feeling from minor causes, she decided to sit and wait for the feeling to pass. However, it did not.
“It was at that point that I acknowledged that something must be wrong. I turned off the stove and started to ask God what was happening to me.”
She called her son who, by her tone, knew that something was not right.
“They took me to the doctor and when I was examined, I was told that I had suffered a stroke. Just like that. I stayed at the doctor’s office for a while because he wanted to make sure my blood pressure reading would drop, as it had escalated.”
Freeman, who worked, and still works as a sales and marketing representative, said she stayed at home for a while, but still managed to work while there.
FEELING GRATETFUL
“I was very grateful despite the low feeling and the bed rest. I was grateful that I was not crippled and had my faculties intact. It was not luck; it was blessing. To think how it could have gone gives me shivers. I could have passed out around the stove, things could have burnt up, I could have died. But God…”
Freeman said while she can only imagine what others who have journeyed the path of ill health go through, she knows for a fact that her healing and restoration was not only as a result of her Lord and Saviour, but also her refusal to worry about the outcome or anything else associated with her life.
“A lot of the times, we bring on different conditions because we worry and that doesn’t help anything. If you worry less and have good support around you, that should be enough to keep you going,” she ended.