Miracle Story: Vanessa and Vivian

 In this powerful episode of Good News Gossip, we sit down with Vanessa, the courageous mother of Vivian—a little girl who is truly a living, breathing miracle. Vivian’s story is one of faith, resilience, and God’s undeniable hand at work. After being hospitalized twice for meningitis and later contracting RSV, she suffered severe brain injuries, endures daily seizures, requires a G-tube to eat, and depends on multiple medications just to function. Yet, despite every diagnosis and setback, Vivian continues to defy the odds with every breath she takes. Vanessa shares the raw and inspiring journey of watching her daughter fight for life—and how their faith in Christ has carried them through. If you need a reminder that miracles still happen, this episode will stir your soul. 

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​Gather around God's and move them all over town. Good news, gossip, spreading hope and life. Good news, gossip, making, dark day. Every testimony, every story. True. God's do work. Hey, good news, gossipers. I'm so excited for you to hear the miraculous story we have for you today, Vanessa is going to be sharing about her miracle child named Vivian. She's with us in the studio and she's gonna tell you everything that has happened to her and Vivian. And I just hope that you are blessed by what you're going to hear. This was definitely arranged by God himself. We'll tell you how we met and how this story came to be, so enjoy. To set this up, we're gonna talk about how we met, which was a God thing for sure., Me and Felicia, printed off some flyers to tell people about our podcast and we were going into Reaper Physical Therapy and we were actually going out and Vanessa was right in front of us I called out her and asked her if she listened to podcasts, told her what we did, and she said, actually, I have a story for your podcast. We're so glad that you're willing to be here. Thank you so much for being here. It's a pleasure. My name is Vanessa. We live in ett my daughter's name is Vivian she's the whole reason for the story. She is a miracle and I'm so thankful she's here with us today. I'm excited to see what the future holds for her and, hear her story. Let's just start at the beginning, which I feel like start when we were kids. How was your faith when you were growing up? Were you raised around church or anything like that? Definitely raised in church. Started off as Church of God then parents dwindled off and stopped going. So I went to Baptist. I'm actually from Augusta, the Big Baptist church in Augusta. As time rolled on, things happen people move away and you just stop going. Yeah, but I've always said I'm a believer or not believer. So like I've always believed in God, but haven't found a church since then that I fit into, if that makes sense. And then life happened, got married, got divorced, and then met her daddy and that's been wonderful. His family's big into church. His grandma's 90 something years old and still goes every Sunday. Nice. So they love seeing us there. So we go there sporadically when C will let us. Yeah. Okay. Sweet. So when you met your husband what was that like we actually worked together? Yeah. So we both worked at Land Frost, I was a supervisor, he was a maintenance tech I was like no, he's too young. He's too young and he can't do it. But from the moment I spoke, and he'll tell you this too, I've always said, he's just different. There's just something different about him. It's not your normal at the time, 20-year-old. And I don't know, maybe he was raised up more mature or had a little life lessons himself. Which later on we both realized, I had miscarriages. He had miscarriages. And so not only with everything she's been through, is she a miracle, but her being here, it's just a miracle. Miracle. Yeah. So when you guys met how long before y'all were married? So we're not actually married yet. We're engaged. Okay. But with all the sister's issues, can't really understandable. Afford to lose the help that would be in outside of marriage. Okay. Yeah. But I'd love for you to talk about that too at some point. Like the different resources you use and things like that. Because I can't work now, we can't afford like just she's on seven different medications. Yeah. And so just one medication her shot that she gets is over$700 a month. Oh my goodness. Yeah. And that doesn't include the hospital bills and stuff that, where if we didn't have Medicaid, we definitely wouldn't be able to afford everything that she gets. You're talking probably six or$700 outside of just the shot for meds. Even with the discount card. Yeah. And then we finally got her bill in from Children's, from our stays and it's about 4 million. Yeah. So there's no way we would be able to, I actually thought about that. I've thought about, I've definitely thought about that with, there's a lot of children out there that need care and Yeah. It's all about how expensive our insurance through work. even if we just had it, 20% of 4 million is still a huge chunk. We'd be in debt our entire life. Yeah. Oh my word. And that doesn't include therapies and all that stuff as well. I feel like we're getting ahead. I wanna know if you could tell the listeners what exactly led up to the moment you found out what she has, and explain what it is, what she has. So I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy. She came four weeks early. We were home for three weeks. Nothing was wrong. She was a healthy, normal baby. Went to her follow-up appointments, she looked good. And then one day, three weeks after her birth, we laid her down for a nap and I woke her up two hours later to feed her she had 103 fever under her arm. And so we rushed her to the hospital, eat a tea, was like, I think she has meningitis. We're not sure. So they took us to Children's and she ended up having late onset GBS meningitis, which is what the mom carries before birth. you can test positive or you don't test. And I had, and that's why I had went in so early. But I had three rounds of antibiotics and she still caught it. Yeah. And so it was just like, there's nothing you could have done. But here's all of this. And it was the worst. 72 hours of our life. Yeah. Was it like touch and go? They kept telling us she's probably not gonna make it the next two days. Oh my goodness. Like we were going downhill so fast to where she went from nothing on her to ended up having 16 lines in her body at one time. 16 different medicines at one time. Just trying to take some stress off of her body. So we went from chest IVs and ports to having to be intubated. We had constant drips. And then she started having seizures which was because of the meningitis and all the damage it started doing. And they say that's, they say it's normal, but it's, I don't think nobody knew at the time that it wasn't as scary as they thought it was gonna be.'Cause the first three days they were like, we don't know if she's gonna make it. And we were just like, we know your doctors, but you're not the great healer. That's what we just kept saying. You don't know, like you can say she's not gonna have any functions. And then we've all heard of miracles. They come out perfectly normal. And that's something I stick with a always, that's what her Mimi and her lolly kept saying. You can listen to the doctors, you can take their advice, but you need to keep praying about it. Because at the end of the day, they're just doctors. They're not the main one that that does the healing, that can do the miracles. Yeah. I was gonna ask if while you were at the hospital, there were people standing in for you as a parent I would completely disassociate. I would be I don't know what to do it, just give it to God. That's all you, we should live like that. That's the best thing you can do. But it is easy to say that's all you can do, but that is also the best thing that you can do. Yeah, for sure. We, we just, we thought on it. We prayed and we were like. Help give us the guidance because they're asking us a million questions that we don't know how to answer. Like how do you decide if you want your child to be DNR at three, three weeks old? And we thought, and we prayed and we talked to our parents and they're just mental loss as we are because they don't know. They've never been through a situation like that. And you we finally decided, we were like, if she needs a DNR, it has to be because she won't have a life. And our main thing was we want her to have a life. We don't want her to just be alive. We don't want her three weeks old just living off a monitor. And so we were okay with her being on a ventilator and being up breathed.'cause there's people all around the world that live with trachs and. Yeah. Need help being live on oxygen 24 7. But we didn't want her to be bedridden or not know what's going on. So we decided that if she had to be on a ventilator, that was fine. But if her heart ever stopped and she lost more of her brain, then we wouldn't revive her.'cause at three weeks out, if they revived her, it would just basically crush all her little bones. Oh yeah. It was hard. So for the first month, like if she had to have procedures or anything done, it was done there in her room.'cause she was so unstable to move. And she never once, she never once stopped breathing, never. And we had this one doctor we call him Dr. Charles, that's not his name, but we go with Dr. Charles. And he was such a negative Nancy. Like she's not never gonna wake up. She's already brain dead. Like not even a neurologist, but she's already brain dead. She's not gonna be able to breathe. She's not gonna be able to do this. Just like constantly, basically telling us to just give up. Yeah. And we had him for a week and a half, and that was the hardest week.'cause that was the first week we were there. That was the enemy? Yes. Yeah. Attacking you. And we were just like, no, you don't know. You don't know. And that's when her dad stepped in and was like, I don't want to just talk to you. I wanna talk to her neurologist. Because you, we wanna talk to all the doctors. Because what you're saying is true. That's not what they're telling us. And her neurologist came in and she showed us the MRIs and there was a lot of damage. So like now she only has 25% of one side of her brain and 50% of the other. So we're working about half of our brain in total. But they were so amazed weeks later that she had five neurologists done. They were like, we don't know how she's doing this. We really don't. Wow. I wanna share something with you because I I believe with all my heart that the Holy Spirit is behind this, but there's this podcast called the Telepathy Tapes Highly re. Highly recommend you listen to it.'cause it's not just, it's not just autism. I don't think and I don't know, she verbal? Does she communicates, she's very sassy. Yeah. So be just let your, let the Holy Spirit talk to you, as you're going through and as she's growing up, the Telepathy tapes talks about how the bond between a parent and a child is like no other. And she, a lot of children can communicate telepathically we know the Holy Spirit can work in ways that we don't understand and it, like God will just put images and like words and stuff in your mind. I feel like that's a lot of what mom gut is. now that we're not in the hospital and I'm doing all these things for her, my mom gut tells me a lot. She will pick up and I think maybe that can explain a little bit, which, when there's a miracle that happens, you don't need an explanation. It's a miracle, like point blank period. Just you're thinking God. But yeah I definitely, I just bring that up because she can pick up on that. There is, I think that science is just a study of God's work and I just know that a hundred percent she is surviving and thriving because you and your her dad are like big believers in the God, in our God almighty. And then I think at four weeks. She ended up with a massive, I'm gonna call it a cyst on her brain. It was 1.6 centimeters. So that does, that sounds tiny, but in a baby's brain it was massive, like on the MRIs it was huge. And that's when we had to decide completely like, Hey, do we want to keep the DNR as is? we had an amazing neurosurgeon and instead of cutting her school open, he just went where her soft spot was and chipped away probably a centimeter worth of bone. And she has the perfect little scar. You can't even tell it's there anymore. Wow. But she made it through that. And that night after she came off, anesthesia was the first time she had opened her eyes since we had been in Children's. And they were like, she's never gonna do that. this was at four to six weeks, give or take. Oh my goodness. So still a little bitty tiny. Didn't even look like the same baby at this point. We were, so she was born at six pounds, three ounces. At this point we were almost 20 pounds because we were so fluid overloaded. Yeah. From them pushing medicines and giving her IV fluids looks a little about, a little bit of the same as what she looks now. She was definitely huge. And that was. That was scary in itself because they were like, she felt like a water balloon. Yeah. Like her skin was so stretched, like she didn't have any texture to her skin. It was just like elastic. So when that happens, how do they get fluid off of a baby? They, we were finally coming off of some of the medicines. Like we had finally figured out that she had a certain type of meningitis. So like they had her on six different antibiotics because they didn't know what type, they didn't know if it was a bacterial or a viral. giving her the medicine as needed. And this is when we met our miracle doctor. I can't even remember his name, but he was. A little short white man with the widest hair, like literally looked like Santa Claus without beard. And he was like, we've gotta get her off these fluids. Gotta get her off. We've gotta start her back on feet. And they were like we don't know if she can swallow He was like, put a tube in her nose, put it into her belly, get her off the fluids, stop pumping her with fluids, give her food. And that's when everything started to change. Like she started coming down, off being so puffy. And that's when she actually started moving. Like she'd started kicking, she'd lift her arm up, she started crying, and we were like, oh, if everything's gonna be okay, everything's gonna be just fine. And she started getting better. Completely defying all the odds. If. If I could take a dictionary and put a picture of defying odds, it would be her.'Cause she has done it since the beginning from being told that she's not gonna last two days to here. We are a year old and we got over the men meningitis hump. We were still in the hospital, but she was doing better. We started therapy. We're fixing to go home. So we go home and we're there for 32 hours. She's spark another fever. No, we call it HSV one meningitis. Whoa. Yeah. Is. There an an autoimmune. Is this because she get, does she pick up sicknesses really easy? We thought maybe, but the testing that we've done so far, I mean her immune system's just suppressed. She has a adrenal gland deficiency. Okay. Which is what helps you fight off your, viruses and stuff she's on like steroids all the time. Okay. But we caught HSV one in the hospital, so it could have been from Oh yeah. Someone touching their mouth and not washing their hands and then putting on their gloves. Or it could have been from one of us kissing her on their forehead, like another one of those you have no control of. Yeah. And so we had already been in children's four. 18, 19 weeks at that time. So Dad's been off work for a month. Oh my gosh. How or financially, how are you guys? We call'em Vi's Village because anybody and everybody was just sending what they could. Yeah. Doing raffles on items to, to help get us, just get us through. I ended up having to quit my job to be with her. So I got like my 401k drawn out and, but I really don't think we would've made it if it wasn't for her village. Is this just church family, friends, communities, churches. No, but people that don't even know you. People that don't even know us. No. And it, it wasn't even a GoFundMe type deal. It was just people talking, people sending money. People that we probably haven't talked to in four or five years on mine and his side sending two,$300 people at where we both work, they did a kind of like gathering where people would just give what they could. we literally wouldn't have made it without them because at that time children's Hospital, they still had where if you were admitted, the parents could eat three times a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, you'd get a free meal. So that helped a lot. But dad driving back and forth bills at home. I had been on maternity leave before, so I wasn't really getting paid. Yeah. And. So there, if we wouldn't have made it without them, and now, so like our hospital stays that we have now, children's has actually changed that. Where if you're a parent, you only get one meal a day. So if that was, there's no way we would've made it. None. And so my hearts are with them because I know there's family still in there now that were there when we were in there. Yeah. Golly. A year. That's a year That's so hard to even put yourself in. That's like a situation. It's hard to describe if you've never been in it. I would like to say I feel like y'all are definitely walking and the hope and the grace and the peace of God that like you can only have with God. And there's,'cause there's no other way that you could. I'm proud of y'all for that and for just sharing your story and just for not being like, angry and bitter being thankful for her and not the things that you've been through with her. Because, it's easy for people to turn bitter when there's situations going on, even though that's not of God. God would never want any of that to happen to her. But, I just wanted I, I can't say there wasn't times we didn't, those first two weeks I can't tell you how many times we both cried was like, why us? We've already been through the miscarriages. Like why would you give me something so precious perfect and then turn the situation around? Yeah. I couldn't wrap my mind around it in the beginning, but looking back, seeing everything. She came out just how I needed her. She has taught us much patience and that's, and everybody's oh, you need patience. You need patience. We had no choice but to learn patience. she don't let us make plans. She is the definition of you've gotta be patient. You've gotta, you've gotta wait. Things will get, things will come as they come. And that if you think your plan is set, it can change all the time.'cause we had it all planned before she came. Yeah. So when she gets second, the second time, was there any more damage done? To her brain or anything? Luckily not. It was, we caught it so early that thank goodness she was on the medicine that she had been on, plus us not ignoring the signs, checking her temperatures, getting her back. She was in there for four more weeks. we got sent home and we were gonna be on medicine for six months. So it's a nine month course. And so six month course, sorry. So we were about three months old at this time, so at nine months old, we finally got off that medicine, which means we had to see more specialists, more doctor's appointments. So if you can think of a specialist at Children's, we've probably seen them. But luckily nothing, it did decrease her seizure tolerance. So we were having seizures more frequently. And then we started having infantile spasms, which is pretty common in children under one. Which we knew there was a chance that she would have more seizures, but the first time she did'em, it scared us'cause it wasn't like a normal seizure. an infantile spasm is more like a whole body, instant jerk. And she was doing it so hard that she was like throwing herself forward for someone who doesn't have the ability to hold her head up to just completely throw herself forward. Yeah. And she would just cry and it would go on for 30 minutes at a time. we had got her actual seizures under control, but these were like a whole different rocket ship. And she's finally put her on some different medicines. And so that's one of the medicines we're on now, and we don't know how long we're gonna be on any of these. then we caught RSV we were in the hospital. We were in there from the day after Thanksgiving until the day before Christmas. So we got out Christmas Eve. Okay. She had been on oxygen, she couldn't breathe. And we were like, it was like one of those setbacks. it's almost like PTSD. Like how, we, we are so lucky because her grandparents, they come and let me go home for a night. Or,'cause I was never gone for more than a day. Yeah. So being stuck in the hospital for weeks and weeks on end does something to you entirely. the first time I ever went home from the hospital, I was going for my six week prenatal checkup and I was, her lolly came and stayed with her and she was like, go get you a good night sling. Get up, go to your doctor's appointment, come back. It's okay. I can do that. And the day we leave, the first day I leave, there was a fight in the hospital across the room from her, like they landed in her floor. Yeah. It's crazy. It was all over the news and everything. My goodness. No. Yes. And then they call me and they're like, Hey, we're doing brain surgery today. What? So never skipped the appointment. Rushed right back to children's. And thinking back now, it's, I honestly don't know how we made it through. I really don't. Yeah. God will just put you I feel like autopilot is the best way to explain that. My gosh. So let's talk about present day. What is she doing therapy wise? What is she, what are her goals? I know that in therapies they have like different milestones they need to reach. So we are in physical therapy and occupational therapy. Occupational, we're just trying to get her to track things.'cause like she'll open her eyes and she'll look, but they're she's kinda don't know where she's at, so she is looking everywhere. So her eyes are like twitching over to one side and the other. we played with our first toy and this was her actively engaging, hitting the toy and making it spin. P pt, we are, we can roll over with assistance now, so like she can roll herself over if you hold her leg. She's sitting up holding her head up more. Wow. We've actually just started like bearing weight on our legs, helping us get ready to walk. We've got braces for our hands to keep our little thumbs from staying tucked, which we don't have to wear anymore because our hands are doing what hands do. Praise the Lord. So she's grasping? Yes. Awesome. Oh, she's got a death grip. She doing all the things that they said that she couldn't do. Praise the Lord. Yes. Vivian. She's a miracle. Miracle. She is our sassy little 1-year-old. she has an attitude out of this world. you'll talk to her like I can talk to her and I'll be like, oh, I love you. She'll be like, what mom? What are you doing? And then dad will talk to her and she'll just laugh and giggle. When she was real mad, she'd say, dad. Dad. And then she just, she has almost figured out how to say love. We'll say love you. She'll make the noises instead of Yeah, we're getting there. She's growing and thriving and definitely she sleeps really good. Yeah, our seizure meds do that to us. Oh yeah. Okay. So you say you don't go to church anywhere right now, but do you do y'all have church at home or do you read your bible much or you just pray and talk to God pray and talk to God it's more, more now when I talk to him, it's more thank yous. Thank you for letting her do this or if she's sick, will help us get through it. You've already sent us, been put us through a lot already. Helped us through a lot, but it's here lately, especially on the good days where she's had like an amazing day talked all day been awake all day and like just thank you. Because in those moments I look back and I'm like, Hey, we didn't think we were gonna be here. Came so far. That's awesome. The day she cries so hard, we didn't think she was gonna be able to cry, so just be grateful. She's crying. So I wanna ask if it's not too personal, do y'all plan I expanding your family having more? We have thought about it a lot. We've, we, I have a special needs sister. She's autistic. And like in the back of my mind, I'm always like, I need to have at least one more. That way if something happens to us, she has somebody. But I've also been on the other end where, you have a special needs child and you have other children and sometimes they feel left out.'cause special needs just needs a little more attention. And I don't. Want another child to feel that way. So we don't know what her plans are or what she's gonna be capable of. And most of our assistance for like walking and all that stuff will happen when she's almost two. So we're gonna, we're gonna wait a couple years. See how things plan out, seeing what she's capable of. another year she might be up walking and doing a little more. I fully believe that death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those that love it, she'll eat the fruits thereof and just speak li just keep on speaking positive over her and speaking life. And your legs will walk and you will be able to do this sooner than let, and God wants what you want and even more. God really does want what you want and if you do want more kids, then just say she's gonna be able to do everything she needs. And I'm more than capable of loving both of'em I truly believe, that children are a blessing from the Lord. But I just wanted to encourage you and I'm proud of you. And I think that you can do it. As a mother, you can with the Lord's help our favorite saying is, all the good things happen in God's time. I just wanted to say, I freaked out a little bit. When you say the power of the tongue thing. Death and laughing in the power of the tongue. Love the preach there of Proverbs 1 18 21. Yes. I had that on my mind all morning. It was so heavy on my heart. I'm like, why is this and it, we're going through something in our family where. My grandma, she's, her heart is failing basically. And we're praying like this is not the end. The, and that's what I was telling myself is talk to God about it. Pray about it. I'm not ready to say goodbye to her. She's not ready to leave. It would fall on your grandma to say, I am gonna live in the name of Jesus. The Lord's gonna gimme strength and like whatever she needs to speak against that. and now the science behind that is like what you say out loud, actually what you say out loud and you hear affects your DNA and the way that your brain can more than anybody, come, someone could say something, I say death, you death over you. Death over you. And you could just say, no, I speak life over me. And then it wouldn't matter how many times someone spoke death over you, but either said the done with Dr. Charles. That reminded me. Yes. Get that man out of your nose. Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that, a baby has just as much to say cause she could have gave up. She has been spicy since birth. So I wanted to ask you, Being a mom is a full-time job anyways, and you've got, I feel like you got double duty. So how, obviously prayer and talking to God, but what are some things you do in a day to keep your sanity like me time? Do you get any at all? Dad's real good about like, when he gets home from work. I know a lot of parents will be like, running errands is not me time, but with the special needs kid, running errands is me time. So say I need to go pick up her meds or anything, instead of him going and picking them up, he'll let me go get them, or, Hey, I want a sonic drink. Hey, I'll go get those. Just little bits and pieces of taking a shower without having to worry about the baby crying and, by 1-year-old. By 1-year-old. Most parents are like, it's easier when they're one. But even though she's one, she's still more like a six month old. So tag teaming, parenting and then lolly watches her like overnight for us and stuff. Sometimes just so we can get like a night of sleep by ourselves. Without having to wake up.'cause I'm up four or five, six times a night putting milk in her bag'cause she's got a G-tube and she wakes up. I wake up normally before she does.'cause it's like mom and stink. And then some nights are harder than others where all she wants to do is be held or can't be consoled because maybe she's had a seizure that day or, it's, you never know. Not with Viv v's. She plays by her own rule book. So just the little things. I'm excited when I hope you do come to church.'cause I, I wanna interact with her. I wanna play with her. I used to work at a daycare that was for special needs and so I got a really big heart for special needs children and I just, they're, they really do. I know I talked about the Telepathy Tapes podcast, but that just, I work there and then years later hear this podcast and I'm realizing these kids communicate in all kinds of ways. It's not, you don't have to have the words verbally to say, what they're thinking. Yes. And just based off that. I feel like a lot of the times I feel before she even does anything, when she's gonna have a six year, like I can just mom, gut just something. Mom, gut, like I just know something's wrong or something's fixing to happen. You get that eerie feeling that something's about to happen There's nights where I just, I can't sleep because I just have this gut feeling. Something's bad's gonna happen and I'll be two, three o'clock in the morning she'll have a seizure. Yeah. What's the protocol for that? So she has a plan. So we have a at home seizure plan. There's three different medicines we go through before, if these don't work, then we go to the hospital. it was every time she'd have a seizure and we would take one medication, we'd have to go. But I think they finally realized that I know what I'm doing. Like you, they've, I've seen and been taught so much in the hospital that you just tell me what to do, I'll do it. Yeah.'cause I've worked in the medical field. So I've already had that type of experience. And then as a mom, you'll just do what you have to do to make sure that they're okay. So yes, it might hurt at the moment, but if it keeps you alive, it keeps you alive. she gets a shot twice a day, but her seizure meds, one she takes orally and then two, she takes through her G-tube. Okay. And then, no, her shot is for her kidneys. So pees too much so her sodium gets high. So she has to have a shot to make her stop peeing. Okay. To keep her sodium levels low or in normal range. So I know she has a G-tube. Does she get to eat different things though. Can she swallow? And we, so her birthday was Tuesday and we got her to eat icing off of a cupcake. Aw. For the first time. Her favorite food is sweet potatoes. Yeah. But not like baby food. Sweet potatoes. Like real sweet potatoes. So we do a little taste test here and there. She wasn't supposed to live past two weeks, most of the time people can give you timelines or like expectancies, nobody knows.'cause she plays out of her own rule book. Yeah. She could be, have a entirely normal life and then she did not three years old. We don't know if she could have a really bad seizure and die tomorrow. We don't know. She deserves to be celebrated for everything she's been through this year. So this year we're Is it she wonderful. She is wonderful. And her birthday party is this upcoming Sunday. But then after that we're gonna, we're gonna take trips, so I think we're either gonna do the beach or St. Louis next year. I like it because St. Louis has that big zoo. Yeah. Nice. I live a zoo. I'm just so glad you are able to be a stay at home mom with her. That's such a blessing. It was an adjustment. Yeah. A big adjustment.'cause when,'cause I was a supervisor, so I was paid salary. Yeah. High end, probably close, close to 60,000 a year. Big pay cut. Yeah. We got lucky though. We found an apartment here in, that was like half of what we were paying a lot nicer. Same space. So like still two bedroom, very nice duplex apartment. it was an adjustment, but we are definitely better off now than we were a year ago. Because even with the money change, I guess you have to adapt to it too, like spending wise.'Cause even with both of us making money, there'd be weeks where we didn't have anything, like barely enough money to give food and now we're, I don't even know how to ex, I don't even know how to explain it. Like we're just better off now than we were a year ago. Praise the Lord for that. I'm so glad to hear that. I don't know if we're done talking, but I'd like to pray, but before we're done. Okay. Lord, I just wanna thank you so much for Vanessa, Vivian. Felicia, thank you for the relationship that we're growing here. Lord, thank you Lord for the miracle that Vivian is Lord. Touch Vanessa's heart to just continue to lean on you and continue to speak life and keep on blessing them and see improvements in Vivian that are faster and sooner and better than they could ever hope for Lord. And just to know that it's you doing it Lord. And continue to work in our families, in our hearts, Lord, and just continue to grow this relationship. Lord, I pray that this podcast just touches. Many other people out there going through things. Lord, we know that most people have a testimony and a story, and we all need you, Lord, we thank you for heaven. We thank you for Jesus. So on the crossroads, Lord, and just bless us. Stay. And Jesus the name I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Yeah, we'll call a good on that. Thanks guys. Thank you for coming sharing your testimony is not easy, but for the glory of God, I don't think I could have shared it six months ago. I really don't think I could have. I wanna close this out by just saying to our listeners, I wanna apologize'cause we haven't put anything out in a few weeks past. We're, we talked before this and we are gonna try and get set up where we can have people just write in their testimony and we can share that when we don't have an interview. I'm gonna plug that in right now. If you have a testimony, you want to ride it and send it to us, it can be long, it can be short. to tell the story of what God has done in your life, please share it with us. You can email us at Good News Gossip at Yahoo. We have Facebook, we have Instagram, we've got TikTok. What else? We got Charity. We got Threads. Threads. I don't know what that is, but we got it. We have a Patreon account that I am learning. And we want to hear from you guys. If you have been at church and the preacher was like giving his, his sermon and feel really moved by the Holy Spirit and you're I wanna get up in front of the whole church right now and tell my story. But you don't wanna go up in front of the church and tell your whole story. You can tell it to us. Now's your chance. So anyways, thank you guys for listening. Stay tuned and I hope you enjoy. Vanessa's, is that your name? Yes. Pregnancy break. Yes. Oh my gosh, Vanessa and Vivian's story today. we just hope you have a blessed week. Gather around God's and move them all over town. Good news, gossip, spreading hope and life. Good news, gossip, making, dark day. Every testimony, every story. True. God's do work.