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Saturday, July 27, 2013

JMC Vlog Episode 38: JMC VS Hospital Billing Dept. JMC Wins


This episode covers our continued fight with a certain hospital billing dept.

This Most current incident with this billing department involves one of the employees taking money out of our bank account illegally without our authorization to force payment on a bill that we had already paid off. We share our fight from July 17-July24th to get our money back and also to talk to a supervisor so that this NEVER happens again and that action be taken against the person who did this to us.

We also share tips on how if this ever happens to you, how you can win this fight. Because no one should be bullied or harassed for paying their bills.

People Like You Will Be The Death Of ME!!!!

After waiting a month to do an MRI on my pelvis and abdomin to see what is going on inside me.  I ended up having to cancel the test yesterday because I was too sick to hold down the 3 bottles of barium they wanted me to drink to do the test.

And finally after 14 months of telling my GI doctor that even though I am on zofran (anti vomiting meds) they don't stop me from vomiting every day at least once a day.  So FINALLY yesterday since I was so sick and had to cancel the test he did a med change and put me on phenergan suppositories up to 4 times a day. So Jeremy helps give me this medicine since it is taken through the anus and not the mouth.  But it has a done a wonders for me in just 24 hours.

Our plan for this new medicine is for me to take it around 8p.m. at night and then Jeremy set an alarm for 6 hours later and give me the medicine again. Because doing this last night allowed me for the first time in years to sleep soundly through the night.  I woke up with no nausea or vomiting or even the slightest stomach pain! And for the first time in years I feel rested.

So we are praising God for this medicine and hopefully next the doctor will change my Crohn's medicine so we can get the other symptoms like diarrhea, fatigue, extreme intestinal pain under control.

                               

Now let me move onto why I name the title of this blog "People Like You Will Be The Death Of Me!"

As I began taking the first round of the new anti vomiting medicine, Jeremy made a post on his facebook about the new med change and how we are hoping this new med will relieve some of my symptoms.

About an hour later, a woman who is on Jeremy's friend list, but has NEVER EVER written him, spoken with him or anything, is a complete stranger writes something like this as a comment to Jeremy's post "Miranda needs to stop all her meds....There is a man I have read about his name is.... he had and incurable disease....the doctors put him on all these meds that only hurt him.....He finally went off all his meds.....told God that if you heal me God I will serve you for the rest of my life.....Miranda needs to do this and also buy these 2 books and try these 2 diets and she will be healed"

I nearly exploded! For someone to say this is RIDICULOUS!!! THE WOMAN HAS NO IDEA WHAT MY DISEASE IS OR ANYTHING! SHE ALSO TALKED AS THOUGH I WASN'T EVEN A CHRISTIAN AND IF I JUST SERVE GOD AND DEVOTE MY LIFE TO GOD I WILL SURELY BE HEALED!

I gave my life to Jesus Christ at the age of 12 years old, I am preachers kid so I was in church before I ever came out of my mommy's womb.  I have been actively working in the church and using my gifts for God since I was 15 years old when I started playing drums for churches. LONGGGGG Before I ever got sick.  I was serving God, the Church, and my community up to the day I got sick 6 years ago.  My job outside of church was taking care of the sick and dying, I was an STNA State Certified Nursing Assistant.

Here is what I wanted to tell this woman, NO ONE IS IMMORTAL IN THIS WORLD! No one will get out of this world alive! We ALL are going to die of some kind of disease or illness.  God Will NOT heal our bodies completely from disease and illness while we live on planet earth, because our bodies are mortal and will die, but God can and does ease my suffering and sometimes it is through the medicines I take, along with his healing touch.  I KNOW I WILL BE HEALED COMPLETELY FROM ALL DISEASE AND SUFFERING, THAT IS MY FAITH IN ACTION THAT ONE DAY I WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHERE THERE IS NO MORE DEATH, NO MORE SUFFERING OR PAIN.  But for now that is why Jesus said he would send the COMFORTER (Holy Spirit) to help us through these hard times we face in life.

To tell God that I will only serve him and give my life to him IF he heals me, is LUDICROUS AND A SMACK IN THE FACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR! For even Jesus had to suffer and die to save us, if HE OUR GOD WAS NOT IMMUNE TO SUFFERING, PAIN AND DYING HOW CAN WE EXPECT TO NOT GO THROUGH A SMALL AMOUNT OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH?!

FOR ME TO STOP TAKING MY MEDICINE, STOP GOING TO DOCTORS AND CONTINUING TO TRY AND FIND THE RIGHT TYPE OF TREATMENT TO HELP EASE MY SUFFERING, WOULD BE THE SAME AS GIVING UP AND SAYING I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE!

I will NOT stop fighting this disease! I will NOT allow people like you with your CRAZY FALSE DOCTRINE to hinder me! Because God is the author of Wisdom and Knowledge and he gives it freely to those who ask (Read 1st and 2nd Chronicles about the life of Solomon) and I know God, has given my doctors, and nurses knowledge even if it is a small amount (because my disease is such a question mark to many doctors on what to do) on how to help me and ease my suffering, through different treatments and medicines that are out there.

Everyone Jesus Miraculously healed from physical ailments even death, inevitably died in the end of something else that afflicted their bodies.  NO one is immune to death! Only Through Christ do we have hope that when we die we will be given new bodies that will live forever.

But for now, I will continue to do my ministry work whether it be a lot like I use to do or a little.  But I will continue to serve God and hold on to the Promises he has spoken through his word.

That is what I want to say to this woman......However, I could see this woman going over to Joni Earekson Tada's Page and tell her to get up out of her wheelchair and just walk after over 30 years of being in a wheel chair and in the face of her disability serving God all this time.  That's how crazy this whole thing is.  But the woman is now blocked and deleted and will never be allowed to spew her craziness on me or Jeremy ever again.  But I have to wonder, when this woman comes to the end of her life, and she is facing death will she still be trying to make deals with God, like she has told me and I'm sure so many others, and try to hold on to this world that has NOTHING to offer us and is NOT our home? Or will she reach out to the Savior and allow him to guide her home and to a new body that will not die and that you will not have to supposedly wheel and deal for a miracle?


Saturday, July 13, 2013

JMC Vlog Episode 37: Colonoscopies, Endoscopies, Dermatologists, and MRI's


haven't done a vlog in 6 months because of my health continuing to deteriorate. Warning there is no good news about my continued fight with Crohn's. But the good news is God's grace is sufficient and my faith is stronger than ever before and I thank God that one day my suffering on earth will be over and will go home to heaven.