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An Unusual Mystery…

October 11th, 2009

The weirdest things seem to happen to me, but no one else. I guess it’s a good thing.

I don’t even know where to begin. Well, it all started off when I was in China and got some kind of bug bite while I was thre. It was on my finger on my right hand. It wasswollen from the tip of my finger and quickly spread throughout my hand and up towards my arm. It was weird cause I’ve never had this happen to me before. Well, I didn’t think much of it, and just took the medicine the doctors gave me and some sort of cream stuff. It healed in a matter of a week or so.

I didn’t realize it, but apparently after that bug bite went away, my vision started improving. It was nothing major, but some more slight improvements. My mom and I both noticed, but of course we didn’t say it was because I had a bug bite, because that would sound a bit ridiculous.

Well, it’s been 3 months since I’ve returned from China. And since then I’ve had about 5 more bug bites at different times. They start off fairly small and quickly get swollen and can be quite painful. It will take about a week or so for it to completely heal. I usually don’t get bit by things, and if I did it wouldn’t be that often anyways. So, I was trying to figure out what was going on. It was weird…

My mom told me that she noticed everytime after one of my bug bites would heal, she would tell me my vision would of gotten a little better. I would tell her I can read the clock, read a standard size font, and little things like that. I would just tell her my improvements, not knowing that it was always after a bug bite.My friends and family have found it quite amusing, but in my opinion its quite confusing. I don’t know what’s going on and why its happening to me, but at this point I’m going to take it as a good thing. I’ll just appreiate what I have and not think more of it.

My family and I strongly believe that it can be a reaction from the stem cells. I’ve heard of other vision patients having itchy eyes, headaches, and things liek that. And after that was all over, they’ll start seeing improvements. So, maybe for me its getting bug bites. ‘ll never know, but if this is God’s healing for me, I’ll just take it and enjoy every moment of it. I thank God for every bit of improvement I get, and will NEVER complain about it.

For most people, this could be just a funny story, but to me its something thats true. I could just be confused and this could be a conincodence, but who knows, I don’t think I’ll never know for sure though.

But to this day, after 3 months I’m still seeing improvements. I pray that I see more improvements in the next 6 months to come.

Hope everyone else I’ve got the pleasure of meeting in China is doing well and are also seeing significant improvements.

God Bless Everyon

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