My Life is a Miracle

31 The Healin longer in pain, anywhere. Then I turned off the neuro-stimulator. I left my room and called to Sister Marie-Albertine. When she saw me, she was flabbergasted. “What’s happened to you?" “I don’t know what’s happening. Nothing’s wrong with me anymore. I have no pain anywhere…” We were in the main room of the convent. There’s a statue of the Blessed Virgin there, and a photo of our foundress. We went up to the statue and, like two children, we wept and wept and wept—with joy, amazement, wonder- ment, thankfulness, emotion. And then, as two Christian women, as two nuns, we prayed and prayed and prayed. Of God’s mercy, of his glory, of hope, of thanks. I immediately stopped the morphine. Just like that. Something you can’t normally do, but everything was fine. No side effects. I also put away the remote control for the neuro-stimulator implant that I had used to set off little electric shocks to my legs when they were in pain. This gadget that had given me such relief was now totally unnecessary. I also stopped the self-catheterization as that was all back in working order as well.