Vicky Davis - April Estep - Vickey Spencer

Vicky Davis shares the story of God's miraculous healing during a recent health scare. With the help from April Estep and Vickey Spencer, who are Vicky's daughters, gaps in the story of this miracle are filled. This is an incredible story of God's miraculous work.

Chapters

• 0:00 - 6:00  Chapter 1: Finding a Church Home
  The story of how a family found their spiritual home at Maiden Lane Church.
• 6:00 - 15:00  Chapter 2: The Health Crisis Unfolds
  A routine hip surgery leads to unexpected complications and a life-threatening situation.
• 15:00 - 22:00   Chapter 3: God's Presence in the Darkest Hours
  The family experiences God's love and support through community and unexpected blessings during a critical time.
• 22:00 - 34:46   Chapter 4: Miracle and Reflection
  Reflecting on the miraculous recovery and the lessons learned throughout the whole experience.

Transcript

Well, friends, welcome to the ML Podcast.

We're so glad that you decided to drop in and take a listen today.

My name is RW Moody.

I'm the family pastor here at Maiden Lane, and we're so glad to have you with us today.

Hey, listen, the purpose of the ML Podcast is to highlight how people discover, connect, grow, and share through the story of their journey with Jesus.

And so we hope as a staff that these stories will provide encouragement for you as well as inspiration to live a Christ-centered life.

Friends, we have a really cool treat for you today on the ML Podcast.

Joining us today is Vicky Davis.

Say hello, Vicky.

Hello.

Hello, Vicky.

And Vickey Spencer.

Say hello, Vickey.

Hello.

Hello.

 And April Estep, say hello, April.

Hello.

We are so glad to have you guys in it.

This is like the first time I've had to set up four microphones in here.

And so it's a little, it's cool.

But Vickey, I can't see your face.

I know, right?

We're all like bunched up in all these microphones.

But we are so glad that you decided to be willing to tell the story.

Vicky, you know, last year we know that there was a great health scare in your life.

Yes, there was.

And we have lots of prayer and lots of time before the Lord on your behalf.

But there's a lot of us who don't know much about it.

We're going to get into that in a minute.

But first, tell us how you came to come worship here at Maiden Lane.

Okay.

I raised my girls in the Missionary Church in New Carlisle.

Okay.

It kind of closed down a little bit, and we went to the First Christian.

And while I was at the First Christian, it was like, wait a minute, the pastor only knows me by April Estep's mother.

So to me, the church was a little bit too big.

So April and her husband came and visited one Sunday, and she came home and she said, Mom, you've got to try the Church of God.

I said, okay, that sounds exciting.

So I came.

And I'm telling you, when you walked in, you felt the Lord.

But not only that, it was like people loved you for just showing up.

And, you know, I do the greeting.

Well, I did do the greeting until this happened to me.

But it was like this church was just a home.

It was so homey to be here.

So I just started coming and haven't missed.

All right.

Some Sundays I've missed.

Most Sundays.

Yes.

Well, so Vickey and April, did you guys have similar experiences for when you came through the doors as well?

Yeah, so when Chad and I left First Christian, we did a little shopping around, trying to find the perfect fit for our family.

And when we came here, it was Laura Everingham who had invited us.

She said, you've got to come.

You're going to like it because she also came from First Christian.

And I was very hesitant about coming.

I had put it off and put it off, and we finally showed up.

And Julie Nourse saw me trying to figure out where to put Maycie and Crew for the kids' worship time.

And she just, you know, she's like the best personality ever.

She came right up to me, introduced, again, like my mom said, it was just very welcoming and you felt the love.

And then just, you know, each person has what they're looking for in a church.

And when we came in, I was like, there was something that just settled deep inside that was like, okay, this is home.

This is comfortable.

This is what I'm used to.

This is what I'm looking for.

It's going straight by the Bible.

My husband was raised Church of God, so he was obviously on board.

So...Yeah.

Okay.

Just good people who welcomed us in and you just felt at home and got ourselves involved.

Gotcha. Gotcha.

How about you, Vickey?

So in 2017, we had a house fire and my husband had attended here as a young boy, youth, Brad Spencer.

And so when the fire happened, we too had been kind of searching for a new place to land.

And of course, these two were going, you need to come to Maiden Lane, you've got to try this out.

And so when the fire occurred, Brad said, can we go back home?

He had lost his mom.

So coming back here was hard, but yet he felt like it was home.

And then, of course, when we stepped in, we felt that same feeling, that welcoming spirit.

Again, the Bible was taught the way I was raised, and so we felt like we had found our place.

That's good.

I love how each of you mentioned that word home, because there is something when you are home.

It's that familiarity.

It's that common love.

It's that bond that you get.

I think if I drove back to my home that I grew up in, my parents don't live there anymore, it'd be the same kind of feeling.

But yeah, so each of you found that place at home.

And so I know in my time here, I've seen you, Vicky, sitting on that guest area, welcoming people all the time.

And as you said, up until this particular health scare, you were there a lot.

So, you know, as we kind of want to talk about that, tell us a little bit about what happened last year, what you remember, and then obviously Vickey and April are going to help us fill in the gaps.

But tell us a little bit about that health scare that you had last year.

Okay.

I started having a lot of pain in my hip.

 We thought it was my hip.

But I had gotten told to go to different professional people to have my leg checked, my hip.

So until they actually did that MRI, because, you know, you've got to have all that x-rays done by insurance.

Right.

But by the time I had the MRI and went to Dr. Carozza, I can never remember his name.

Thank you, April.

It was like, oh, my goodness.

We saw the MRI.

We saw my one hip that was good.

Saw the hip that was poorly done, arthritis, and just really gray and black.

He said, there's the problem.

You need your hip replaced.

So we set some time up, and I had my surgery.

After the surgery...

I remember nothing, not even the first surgery.

So that's where the girls are going to fill in.

Absolutely, absolutely.

I don't remember.

Well, where do you want to pick us up, ladies?

We'll pick up on the day of that first surgery in October.

She did really well.

The doctor was happy with everything.

She did have a weird occurrence.

The PT person came up and she did the walk around the entire, you know, the surgical place and came back and they were like, yeah, we're going to go get your discharge papers.

And as the PT girl left, mom looks at dad and me and she's like, I feel sick.

I feel like I'm going to...

I don't feel well.

I was like, okay, well, you need to voice that when they come back in.

And she just breaks down to a sweat.

She's like dry heaving.

And then Dr. Corozza comes in.

He's like, hey, I just want to check on you before we left.

And I was like, she's not doing well.

Yeah, like someone help us here.

And she actually passed out right then and there.

And she was only out maybe five seconds, but it was scary because, you know, you have nurses coming up like, hey, do we need the crash cart in here?

And I'm just in the hallway just praying, like, how did we go from walking an entire lap to what is happening?

So we got her back to and, you know, her vitals were looking normal again.

And a young nurse came and was like, hey, are you staying the night at their house?

I was like, she doesn't need to be leaving.

We need to get her admitted, like, that was never the plan for me to stay.

This is not something dad's what, 84 years old.

I was like, he can't handle this on his own.

So she stayed.

So we knew there was like something a little off, but they just kind of just kept passing it off.

Like, oh, sometimes the medicine, anesthesia will do that.

But I'm like, because she kept having some other little issues where she kept wanting to pass out.

But within like five days, all that had cleared up.

And she's just at home, you know, doing her – I think rehab was coming out, visiting the house maybe.

We don't really remember.

But, you know, everything's going fine.

And then it wasn't until like three weeks later she...I was over there.

Home nurses were coming out and were like, hey, this looks kind of red.

It looks a little swollen.

Around the hip.

Yep, around the incision on the hip.

If this doesn't clear up over the weekend, you need to – feel free to go to the ER, go to urgent care.

So one day we're over there, we're checking it out.

And she's like, what do you think?

And my dad's like, you know, hospitals on the weekend, what are you going to get done?

And she's, she was very adamant.

Like I'll just call Monday morning.

So she calls her hip surgeon Monday morning and they couldn't get her until Wednesday, I think, for her first follow-up.

It is a long time.

But before they even got there on Wednesday, so they had, I think, an appointment scheduled later that afternoon, the incision had started leaking.

Okay.

And my dad said there was probably like, you know, 24 to 30 ounces of fluid that was just coming out.

It is. It was.

It looked pretty bad.

So they called the doctor's office and they were able to rearrange some things and get her in like at one o'clock.

And she had to see... not the actual surgeon, but Dr. Comer.

And he was like, yeah, I don't really like how red this looks.

We're going to send you home with antibiotic, a really strong antibiotic.

Stay on that.

We'll see you next Monday.

So that was on a Wednesday.

We'll see you next Monday.

And if it's not cleared up, we'll have to go in and clean out the infection.

Okay.

So they're like, that's fine.

Next day I get a call, April, I'm leaking again.

And I hadn't seen this leaking.

So I'm thinking like, oh, the incision's opening up.

But when I get over there, it was just the oddest thing.

It almost looked like a blister that was just oozing.

Yes.

And if you pushed on it, it... it was just pink tinged, just like water.

I'm not equipped for this type of a medical thing, but you know, I stood up, I stayed over there.

I'm like, I can do music.

I can teach kids, but I don't know about this.

Um, so we got it cleaned up, but it took like a good hour and a half to two hours to get it to stop.

And I left there and I was like, listen, if anything changes, you call me, you call me and we'll get you in there.

So the next day, my sister and I both teach at Northwestern.

My sister texts me at like 5:30 in the morning, 5:30 in the morning.

Yeah.

And she's like, do you want that early text?

No.

And I'm like, Chad's alarm had just gone off.

So I like saw that there was this text and she's like, do you mom and her on the same live three 60 so they can watch every move of each other's.

And uh she's like uh what's going on with mom why is she at the ER and it's like what what are you talking about.

I was over there last night they were supposed to call me. What do you what do you mean?

So she and I are kind of frantically like do we go into work what's happening.

So one of us got a hold of dad and he said that in the middle of the night it started bleeding.

So it wasn't just the pinkish fluid.

Mom you recalled none of this right?

And said he could not control it with towels he couldn't do anything to stop bleeding.

 So he knew then he had to take her.

Yeah.

So they convinced us to just stay at work.

If anything gets real bad, we'll call you because, you know, sub plans.

Those are a train wreck to try to mess, get all thrown together at 6 a.m.

So they ended up admitting her and we went out there after work and, you know, they didn't really give us any specifics other than, yes, it's infected.

Yes, she's been on this antibiotics.

It's not killing it.

So we're going to go ahead and just keep her through the weekend and

Give her IV antibiotics.

And then Monday, if it's still like that, Dr. Carozza has it on his schedule.

He'll come in and go in and clean it out and get all that bacteria and infection, whatever it is, cleaned out.

So it wasn't until Sunday.

Vickey, I'll let you tell how we really got down to the sepsis thing with Kendall's information with American Red Cross.

Okay so my daughter is married.

Her husband at the time was in boot camp.

 And she was trying to relay messages to him about what was going on.

And unbeknownst to us, she was in contact with the American Red Cross, as was the hospital.

And the hospital had called them and said, you need to send this soldier home.

This is not looking good.

We had no clue to the level of this.

And that's when we learned through that phone call that she was septic.

So we knew then that the infection was severe.

They needed to get in there and clean it out and, you know, started to make plans for bringing Cody home, which is my daughter's husband.

So that was kind of an eye-opener for us.

Yeah, absolutely.

Monday we go in.

She does fine in the surgery.

Dr. Carosa thinks he's gotten everything.

He said, you know, it had wrapped itself around a little bit, but it had not tipped over the top of her hip to really invade what he would consider a critical piece.

But he said there was a lot of infection, a lot of bacteria, but we've got it.

We should be good.

So we all come out of that moment, move forward to Tuesday.

Mom's doing fantastic.

She's taking those walks again.

Things are going well.

Wednesday rolls around and they're like, you know, we're going to plan to send you home.

Am I correct?

Is it Wednesday?

Yeah.

 This time frame is very hard to recall.

Oh, yeah.

I'm sure the days all blurred together and all that's going on.

So when I wake up Wednesday, it was my turn.

April and I were trying to take shifts.

Again, you can't miss a lot of work.

Right.

So we're trying to take shifts, and it was my turn to head out to mom, and I caught her around 11.

I said, listen, I am sick as I can be.

There is something going on.

I think I've caught something.

I don't want to bring it to you with you getting ready to go home.

I want you to go home healthy, and if I have any sort of bacterial anything, that could harm you.

Yeah.

She's like, oh, don't worry, honey.

Your dad's here.

Everything's great.

I'm getting ready to go home.

She's in great spirits.

Okay, so I lay back down and go to sleep.

Knowing April's at work.

Mom and dad are good.

I'm going to take my medicine and go to sleep.

And it was probably... two hours.

Yeah.

So I'll go back over.

Yeah.

So the crazy thing is, is we had never left her side.

Like dad and her are very adamant.

Like if one of us is in the hospital, there's going to be someone there advocating.

And I guess unbeknownst to me, mom has, it's a real thing, white coat syndrome where she's scared of doctors.

She can't stand needles.

So dad had left because, you know, even the doctor that we had talked to, he said, you can never say for sure, but we think it looks like we're out of the woods for sepsis.

And they were not going to put a PICC line in until all the cultures come back showing that the infection, white blood cell counts coming down.

So everything's looking peachy.

And I'm at school.

I remember it was a two-hour delay day.

I'm teaching kindergartners.

They had just come in, and my cell phone goes off, and I don't recognize the number, and we're not supposed to answer our cell phones.

I was like, eh, if it's important, they'll leave a voicemail.

Well, then immediately, like two minutes later, I get a call from my dad, and I'm like, oh, this can't be good.

So I answer.

I was like, Dad, hold on.

I took my kids next door to my other music teacher friend.

I said, something's going on.

Can you take these kids?

She's like, yeah.

So I call Dad, and... he was like, April, I just got a call from the hospital.

He had left.

He went to Walmart and he went to Aldi to get groceries.

That way when they come home, everything's good to go.

And this was Thanksgiving was the following week.

So what had happened was during... She had to go home with IV antibiotics.

And in order for that to be administered, she needed a PICC line put in.

So... the guy comes in, he does the PICC line, and I've read the reports.

Everything's looking good.

They feed it up through, and it leads right to the chambers right above the heart.

So that way the IV medicine just quickly gets pushed out everywhere.

Well, everything's looking good.

And as he starts to pull it out, she says that she was just very scared.

And am I okay sharing everything, Mom?

Yes.

She had a seizure, started seizing, foaming at the mouth, and then she went unconscious.

 Um, so the guy, it was really hard for him cause he's still trying to like hold, it's a very sterile environment there in the hospital room.

He's trying to get everything covered up, but also trying to fumble around calling for help because this is just like, what is, what is going on?

Um, so they had to call, um, a rapid people from ICU came up and she...

They had to do compressions for 20 to 25 minutes.

And at that point, they don't know how much oxygen has actually gotten to her brain, what the function is going to be like.

Her heart rhythm once showed up only one time with a certain type of rhythm needed to do the paddles, the paddles.

That didn't bring her back.

So they just kept on with compressions.

They had the bag that they were, you know, keeping the air going in.

And I told dad, I was like, Hey, I'm on my way.

All that dad knew was that she went into cardiac arrest and she's unresponsive.

So I jumped in the car whole time.

I'm just calling out to God, praying like, please just save her.

Let me get there.

Meanwhile, trying to get ahold of my sister who had fallen asleep because she's not feeling well.

I'm like, just trying to get ahold of her, just praying the whole time, calling Chad like, hey, this is what's happening.

I'm on the way to the hospital.

And so many sweet people at the hospital, I was met down at the bottom, at the front doors by a lady named Autumn.

She said, are you here to see Vicky?

And I said, yes.

She said, let's go.

And she had called me on the phone also asking how far out I was.

And I was like, that's an odd question.

I don't like knowing, like, why does my time matter right now?

That makes it, like, so real real.

And I was like, I'm probably about 10 minutes out.

So we ran through the hospital up to the room.

And when I walked in, it's just nothing that I ever want to have to walk in on again.

There was probably like 15 people surrounding mom's bed and

And 8 people gathered outside.

Mom was loved on that fourth floor.

Everyone would come in there.

And she is a woman who can build awesome relationships in a very short amount of time.

And she was just loved.

So I think people were drawn to that room, not only because there's this rapid response needed, but people were concerned.

And my dad's a talker too.

People loved them together like I know he doesn't go here but he's amazing.

There's just so many people and you know you just walk in and you're not... 

For me it's like I don't even know what I'm what do I say what do I do.

I said some things to my mom but she's she's not she's breathing they got her pulse back but

She's not responding to anything that anyone's saying, and they just quickly went through, here's what we did.

We need to get her to ICU.

So we head over to ICU.

I walk out of the fourth floor main area, and now my dad has arrived.

And he sat down there, and I just looked at him, and I said, Dad, it is not good.

That's all I could say.

I was like, it is not good.

So... um, at that point in time, Vickey's husband Brad shows up, and we're just kind of following down to the ICU room.

And eventually Vickey gets there.

But there was just every medical person that was talking to me from the time I showed up on fourth floor to over in ICU, the message was very clear.

One, we don't know what happened.

Two, we got to eventually get her off the vent, like, here's the steps.

No one sugarcoated anything, which I can appreciate.

I don't want false hope.

But when I say zero hope, there was zero hope.

We don't know if she'll come off the ventilator and life support.

If she comes off life support, being down for 20 to 25 minutes...

Yes, we did compressions, but that does not pump the blood with the force needed that your heart is going to do.

So we don't know what brain damage is going to be there.

We don't really know what's going to happen.

What to expect.

Yeah.

So at that point, they took her, I think, for a CAT scan, had her cleaned up.

And at that point in time, we could all go in.

But her vitals were just everywhere.

She had to have the arterial IV put in to help control her blood pressure her body temperature was like the low 90s.

She was they had bags on her like a water cooler something that was just things I've never seen you know um there there was just

No hope.

Like at that point in time, we're just thinking that's it.

And I just remember thinking this could be the last, I may never talk to my mom again.

So you're just in that place, place of no hope and just where God is in control and you just got to go with it.

Yeah.

So, man, that's a lot to process.

That's a lot to hear.

I appreciate your guys' candidness in that because I know that reliving moments like that is not easy.

How did you guys see God at work in the midst of all of that was going on, even beyond that point?

How did you see God at work in the midst of all that?

I think for me, you know, there was no hope.

And as a family, we just kept calling on the Lord.

And we had pastor after pastor, you know, visiting.

And then there was just this, like, shower of love that occurred from the nurses, doctors, friends, family.

And they just kept, God's in control.

God knows.

And so we were being fed that thought.

And I think for me, that's what helped kind of move me through those moments.

Felt a lot of love that you didn't even realize how much people loved mom.

It was weird to see the nurses talk about mom and display their love for her and explain what they felt and what she had said to them, things that we weren't even privy to, and how she had witnessed to them in that short amount of time prior to her falling ill.

And I was amazed at people that showed up later on that shared with me.

I was there.

I saw how bad you were.

And we were there to support the family.

But it blowed my mind to think of all the friends that I do have through my Mary Kay, through my church.

They're just good friends.

And I was like, you were there?

You know, that's all I could say is, well, thank you.

I had no clue, but I guess that place was packed with my friends.

So I just feel so blessed to think.

I've made an impact on a lot of people, a lot of my friends.

And they know I've been a Christian all my life.

I did backslide at one time, but God pulled me through that one.

But it's like friends are important to us.

And making sure disciples, to get disciples for disciples, it's like that's my goal - is to make sure that my friends know God is what's important.

Because he pulls us through.

I am a firm believer that you don't know the amount of impact you make in lives until something happens in your life where people respond to that need.

And obviously, in that moment of your need, Vicky, people rose to the occasion because they wanted not only you to know that you are loved but your husband, your girls, your grandkids, who are all experiencing this question of what's going to happen here, God?

And I love it when people, whether you're a Christ follower or not, I love it when people love on other people in those moments of need.

And obviously for those who follow Jesus, when we're in this thing together, it means a whole lot more when that happens.

But there's just something about when humanity raises the occasion to help out each other.

So on this side of that whole health scare, how has life been different for you?

How have you noticed even God in different ways since all of that took place?

Well, it's given me a time to reflect, but it's also given me a time to talk to my husband more about God.

Yes, he's a Christian, and he thinks a little different than we do, but he's more open to a lot of stuff now.

And I mean, I always knew I was loved by him, but there is not a day go by, not an hour hardly goes by that he doesn't tell me, I am so lucky I have you.

God, God just made a way for him to open up to me more.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, we talk all the time in different settings when we look at scripture and the miracles that Jesus performed.

And you are a living miracle. I think we've even voiced that before.

I think the first Sunday you were back, we talked about that.

How has the miracle that God's performed in your life, Vicky, how has that influenced you guys and your faith?

I know that was not a question I gave you, but you know what?

How has that affected you?

I don't know if I'm going to answer, I don't know if I'm going to stay on track here. 

But I know that I showed up to the hospital one morning and I saw the pastor there.

I was having a very rough morning.

I think this was when she was still on life support.

And Chad had said to me the night before, he's like, April, do you not have faith that she can be healed?

I said, oh, I have faith, but I'm a realist, Chad.

You know this about me.

Like, I have to pray that God's will be done, and I know sometimes His will is not in line with my wants.

So I just know I went to the pastor.

I think I gave him a hug.

I was probably just bawling, and I told him that, and I was like, you know, I just have to pray that God helps me accept whatever His will is.

Like I'm in line, whatever God needs.

Yes, I know that's what needs to be done.

But then I think the harder piece is accepting that that is what the will is.

And it turned out awesome in my favor in this situation.

But I think I can look back now and be like, somehow - sorry, mom, I don't mean to say this - but somehow God would have gotten us through.

But it's like you kind of have to have that.

You have to be removed far enough down the road to be like, in that moment, everything seems so scary.

But I know that people go through loss and they go through hard things.

And I just fall back on, I'm thankful that I knew that my heart still had to be aligned with God's.

We would get through.

We will get through.

And I think for my own faith, I just want to show up more for other people as well.

I think that relationship thing is a huge lesson for me.

I'm one that, yeah, I'll pray for this.

Oh, you need money for this, but actually like showing up and taking the time and loving on people.

And, um, I just know there was one day also there I was struggling, and I know without a doubt that God just put the right people in my path.

There are so many either former students or parents of kids that I teach that I just saw all day long, and it was exactly what I needed.

So I just know that God is going to carry us through no matter what because I was there and he did it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That ministry of presence.

Yes.

That is such a powerful thing.

Yeah.

Vickey?

Yeah.

I think for me in that moment, I'm one who likes to get things done, and I'm not always patient.

And I think that God taught me patience because it was in his time.

That's good.

Like April, it was like I knew we were going to be okay.

It might not be the outcome we wanted, but in his time.

And I just kept repeating that.

And, I mean, it was dark because there were moments of we had no hope.

Sure.

But when I looked around, I just kept saying, we're holding our faith.

None of us gave up.

None of us lost that faith.

You know, mom is, she did a great job raising us girls.

We know what the Bible says.

We know what the Lord says.

And we clung to that.

And so carrying that forward into my own life, you know, I feel like I'm closer to the Lord.

I know what family truly means.

It's the most important thing.

And I want to be present for my kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Friends, I hope as you've been listening to this story, I mean, one thing that April and Vicki have both said is that fact that hope seemed to be absent.

But in the absence of that hope, they still knew that the hope of Christ was alive in the situation.

And the truth of the matter is, whatever we're facing in life, that's where we're at.

That's what it is.

When we feel like we don't have hope, that foundational hope of Jesus is still what we stand on.

I just want to say thank you to you guys for... for helping us to understand what that is.

I mean, obviously, Vicky, you're like, well, not much I could do with that.

But in terms of what you're experiencing, because I think sometimes we get so lost in that situation that we forget that the hope of Christ is with us.

Can I add something?

Yeah.

So to try to give my dad a break, I would we would sometimes have to like, Dad, you got to go home and sleep.

I'll take this night.

And when mom came out, her inhibitions were gone, gone.

But it spoke so much to me.

She was so just restless all night long.

She did not sleep.

Weeks went by and maybe she'd have four hours of sleep.

She just it was not happening.

And all night long, she's just tugging at things, taking her oxygen on and off.

We were like, let's try some music.

So I put on my Christian playlist.

And to know that my mom's inhibitions were complete, there were none.

And she, her little hand hooked up to everything.

I had The Blessing, that song, The Blessing, and Who You Say I Am going on repeat.

This lady, my mom, who you couldn't understand anything because she had no breath to actually speak full sentences.

She's over there with her tiny little hand raised on that hospital bed singing along to these songs.

And like that speaks to me that I know that at the core, when there's no filter, everything's gone.

The real foundation of my mom.

It's her faith and belief in Jesus Christ.

And I will take that forever.

I'm so glad that you shared that, April, because, I mean, ultimately what that says, Vicky, is that even in the midst of knocking on death's door, you knew whose you were and you knew where you were headed.

So I got one question for you.

Last one.

You get the last word.

This is your story.

Okay.

What word of wisdom would you share to us when it comes to the miraculous things that God still does today?

What word would you speak over us to consider that?

Never give up. Always trust in the Lord because his will will be done.

I think that about sums it up for me.

And I am just so thankful that I have two wonderful young ladies that if I died today, they can carry on.

They are amazing.

God has truly blessed me.

Well, Vicky, your life is a living testimony of God's goodness and faithfulness and love and miracles that still happen in 2025.

And I mean, we're glad that we still get to see your face.

We're glad that we still get to see you dressed up in your dresses and your hair looking all good, which, by the way, friends, she looks like she always does on Sunday.

Well put together.

And I don't say that to pick on you.

I hope you know that.

I say that with all of the compassion I have toward you in my heart because it is fascinating what God has done in your life.

And if I could just encourage you with one thing, don't ever give up telling your story.

Because I don't think that we are encouraged enough about what God continues to do in the lives of his people.

And it has opened up a lot where people want to talk to me about my story.

I've had my neighbors come over and sit on the front porch just to find out, where were you?

What happened?

And I get to tell them.

And you sit and you cry.

Sure.

And some of them are Catholics.

And they truly believe in God.

And it is just so neat to see how people love each other.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, friends, the next time that you see Vicky Davis sitting on the stool greeting people as they come into the church, which, you know, that shouldn't be too far from now, I don't think, be sure to give her a snuggle on her arm.

Help her to know that she's loved here.

The next time that you run into anybody in her family, give them a high five and just let them know that you continue to be there for them.

Ladies, thank you so much for telling the story today and for helping us to get that.

Vicky, appreciate you.

Vickey and April, thank you so much.

Friends, the next time we drop a podcast episode, I will share another story of how God is doing some great works and people here at Maiden Len

Until then, have a great one.

Bye.

Awesome.

Did I mess up too bad?