My Miraculous MRI Experience: So amazing, I had to write about it multiple times in my journal

MRI machince picture from Torrance Memorial

November 10, 2023 - Afternoon of the MRI Procedure

I just had a miraculous experience unexplainable by my physicians. Today I had an MRI with contrast for my neck area. I was diagnosed last year by Dr. “T” with an aneurism in a blood vessel on the right side of my neck after a CT scan with contrast. Dr. T wanted to do a follow up scan to investigate the status. My nephrologist cautioned me against having another CT with contrast to avoid potential harm to my kidneys, and Dr. T’s office suggested an MRI with a less potent contrast. My nephrologist approved. The MRI was scheduled for this morning, 11/10/23, and I had a miraculous experience.

 

I was told to lay flat and still. Inside the dark narrow chamber, I kept my eyes closed to reduce any anxiety or claustrophobic feelings I may have. The IV port was in my right arm, and I held the emergency buzzer in my left hand. To calm myself, I began signing, “The Lord is my Life and my Salvation.” I had ear plugs in my ears and the radiologist assistant placed pads next to my ears to muffle the loud banging noises from the imaging machine. I chanted, “116/75,” a reminder of the desired blood pressure I wanted, and to calm my mind. I thought about how thankful I was to have this procedure, to help bring about my good health and live lively for upcoming events. I thought about the future life events I could experience with my grandchildren ages 1-month to 6-years. I imagined attending their weddings, getting them ready for college and attending their graduations! I prayed for healing for my entire body.  

After what seemed like a long process of banging noises (“9-minutes…” the radiologist announced) it stopped and the radiologist said something about a, “5-minute test… contrast.” It was hard to understand exactly what he was saying lying inside the chamber. Then the banging began again, but this time I felt a hot almost burning sensation enter my right arm at the point where the IV was inserted. I was concerned if it got hotter I would squeeze the emergency ball and “tap out.”

 

The hot sensation penetrated my arm, but it didn’t increase in temperature. The heat flowed up my arm, up my neck and around my head. I felt it move down both sides of my body and pool in my abdomen. I recalled the radiologist who prepared me for the CT scan last year, warned me that I would feel a warm sensation move throughout my body and into my abdomen; however, the prep I received today for the MRI was different. They told me I may not feel anything, and if I did feel something it would be a slight coldness at the entry site. I thought, “My goodness, they didn’t prepare me well,” but I was grateful for the previous CT scan to recognize this hot flow as part of the contrast experience. Next, the sensation flowed down the tops of my legs, washed over the tops of my feet and seemed to exit through my toes. 

 

I had to keep my peace, my calmness. Many times I wanted the procedure to stop. I didn’t think I could bare it. I wanted to twitch, to panic. I had to keep reminding myself, God was in control, God had me, and all was good and necessary for my healings. Next, I felt something in my lower back at my spine, a sort of pinch or adjustment. I kept lying flat. Several times I had to swallow down my rising anxiety!

 

Afterwards, the radiologist rolled me out of the chamber and said, “Okay, now we will put in the contrast.” What? I asked. The radiologist repeated himself. I corrected him and said, “You already put in the contrast. I felt it.” To emphasize my point, I described what I felt in details to help him see I was right and he was wrong; I didn’t him to give me a double dose by mistake. Then the assistant on my left said, “You didn’t have the contrast yet, you’re not hooked up to anything.” My IV port was NOT ATTACHED to the CONTRAST! They couldn’t explain what I had felt.

 

They put me back into the machine and began the contrast. Just as they said, it was cold at the IV entry point, barely noticeable. I only felt it move half way up my right arm. I tried to understand what just happened and braced myself for another heated uncomfortable sensation to follow. I prayed for my husband and me and prayed for us to live on the coast, like Costa Rica. I realized we were water people, living next to a pond or quiet lake wasn’t what we wanted, we wanted to live next to a live moving body of water, the ocean! And then the test was over. There was no repeat hot flow.

November 11, 2023 – Early Morning – The Next Day

 

Good morning God! Thank you for today! Thank you for answering my prayers yesterday! Thank you for comforting me inside the MRI machine. Thank you for healing me!

 

Something came upon me, Lord! Something hot moved throughout my entire body! Through my veins, up my right arm, right side of my neck, my head, down my left side, down both sides of my torso, pooled in my abdomen, settled there, but actually whirled throughout my intestines, then down both legs, across my shins and fanned out on top of my feet, down each toe. Next, at the small of my back in the center, I felt a poke, an adjustment that made me try to lay evermore still.

 

And I remember several sensations rising in me as if I was going to panic. I almost wanted to scream, to get up and run away if I could. I was approaching the brink of my calmness. I felt if I didn’t fight it, it would explode and I’d lose self-control. Several times I swallowed the fear back down, I extinguished the flame of anxiousness each time by suppressing its crescendo. The flow of liquid heat through my veins followed by the rising panic sensations were only endured with more faith, faith that calmed me, thinking about God’s perfect love for me! I knew I had to endure, I knew it was necessary. I knew God was with me! Thank you God!

 

But when they rolled me out of the chamber the radiologist told me they had not put in the contracts yet! No, he must be wrong, I thought, because I felt it. I felt it a lot throughout my entire body! He must be mistaken and I don’t want him to make an error and give it to me again. But his assistant added, “You’re not hooked up to anything,” there’s no way you received contrast.

 

When they rolled me back inside the chamber a small tear formed in the corner of my right eye, because I was sad knowing I had to endure the uncomfortable heat liquid and the rising panic feelings again. I prayed again, just as I described in yesterday’s journal for healing and for my family. And I realized my husband and I are coastal people, we long for living by the sea, not a pond or still lake, we want coastal waters! The DaCostas - we are people of the coast. Maybe Costa Rica. “Does that mean rich coast or beautiful coast?” I wondered.

 

This time, when the contest started I felt not hot but a cold liquid move up my right arm, but only halfway up between the IV in my forearm and my shoulder, and then I felt it no more. I also remembered feeling something move slightly along my neck on the right side just before I felt the heat, the place where my aneurysm was found. I felt something move down, away from my head, as if it was washed away!

 

After the administering of the cold contrast was finished and images were taken, about two minutes, I was done. They rolled me out. A woman was assisting the radiologist now. I thanked them. They placed a bandage on my arm where the IV port was removed, escorted me to the door, and said goodbye. I was peaceful, relaxed, grateful, and like Sarah when told by an angel she would have a child in her old barren age, I was full of wonderment. What just happened? Like Mary when she was told by an angel she will become pregnant and give birth to the savior of the world and contemplated the things to herself, I was in deep contemplation. That wasn’t the contrast?

 

The liquid heat flowing throughout my body wasn’t contrast. The rising panic feelings and overwhelming rushing sensations engulfing my entire body wasn’t the contrast! It was God!!! It was God’s power, healing power, something of God moving throughout my entire body! Like a rushing wind but a flowing, forceful, hot something moving inside of me, going through my entire body! It was not contrast! I was not hooked up to it! Like someone whose leg is amputated and they swear they can feel their foot, but it was not there! Thank you God!

 

November 14, 2023 - Morning - Three Days Later

 

Yesterday, I thought about you. Yesterday, I thought about yesterday… This song was on my mind when I woke today. I thought about God’s healing powers flowing through my vessels yesterday, Friday afternoon between 12:30pm – 1:30pm. 

 

Yesterday God’s powerful blood ran through me. It was hot. It flowed from my vessels in my right arm to every part of my body and out through my toes, rolling over each toe like marbles rolling down a pavement; there were no stops, no pauses. What felt like a pooling or gathering of warmness in my abdomen may have been the hot power swirling through my small and large intestines. It didn’t stop moving. When the hot powerful flow went down my legs, each leg felt the heat at the same rate, as if the heat flows were two wheels across a wagon on the same chassis, rolling down both legs felt simultaneous. 

 

When the hot flow reached my feet it was like two synchronized ski jumpers leaping into the air, landing, and racing down a hill, over the tops of my feet towards my toes. Both flows separating into 5 tributaries on each foot and pouring into each toe. Then the hot flows were gone. 

 

Shortly afterwards, I felt a twinge in my back. Then there were waves of something heavy coming upon my mind, like an avalanche of rising panic. I had to fight against it, to not let it drown me, overtake me, steal my peace or rob me of my faith that God loved me. I had to hold on to my belief that God would carry me through this MRI with contrast procedure, this hot blood running through my veins. At least three times I had to suppress the rising overwhelming fear that was trying to replace my peace. 

 

I prayed fervently for God’s peace and comfort, and we won!! God and I, I with God, won the battle!

 

Wednesday November 22, 2023 – Early Morning – Nine Days Later

 

Lord, thank you for comforting me in the MRI chamber! Thank you for sending your warmth through my veins, through my entire body! I can’t wait to see if Dr. T notices something different in my neck aneurism. In Jesus’ name, amen!

 

Wednesday November 22, 2023 - Night - Continuous

 

Thank you God for answering my prayers. Amen! And thank you for today’s doctor appointment with Dr. T. The aneurism is “stable, no increase in size or activity.” Dr. T also said, if he had not known what to look for, he may not have seen it. He told me I didn’t need to come back; no further monitoring was necessary, and there were no further concerns of health issues related to it. Halleluiah!! Amen!

 

I tried to tell the doctor and his staff about my miraculous MRI experience, but they just smiled and listened politely. There were no follow up questions, signs of interests, or mentioning of similar patient experiences. I thought about the group of men Jesus healed (maybe they were all blind), and only one came back to thank him. I thought about the listeners who heard the testimonies from the people Jesus healed, and if they believed the healed person’s accounts. Nonetheless, God performed another healing miracle in my life that’s hard to comprehend outside of our country’s medical training. And I’m telling everyone about it!