Victoria: In 1993, my family became very ill. We now like to joke that we were lucky to get sick altogether. My husband, my two younger children, and myself got very serious illnesses that the doctors couldn’t help us with. My husband had Rheumatoid Arthritis and hyperthyroid. He had 12 surgeries in his body.
I was 120 pounds bigger than I am today and I had edema and I had arrhythmia, which is irregular heart beat and this disease is what took my father. My daughter was diagnosed with asthma and allergies, and she was coughing every night. And then my son was diagnosed with diabetes. And the doctors told him at the time that it was type 1 and that he had to go on insulin.
And we spent enormous amounts of money on insurance and medical visits and drugs. But then eventually the doctor told me, “Victoria, I don’t think we can do anything else for you, you just have to pray now.”