Recently I've been asking for prayers on behalf of Nick and his back and that we would know if the Dr Miller that he had an appt with today would be a good Neurosurgeon. When moving to a new area finding random doctors is always hard and you never know who you can trust and who is good.
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Ive been asking around for recommendations and have never gotten any and in fact was advised to go to Nashville for a great Neurosurgeon for nick. Well, we couldn't get into nashville's Vanderbilt Hospital for 2 months so nick looked up the UT Medical Neurosurgeons here and took the first available doctor. (dr. miller)
On Monday I help teach a class called "just moved". Its for those who are new to knoxville and its a great class that helps you meet knew ladies and find different things going on around town. Monday was our first class for this semester and a gal named Christy walked in (been here 3 months). She overheard me talking about nicks back and how we are seeing a neurosurgeon here. She got into the convo and to make this portion of my story short basically said "I know of one neurosurgeon here that would be a good fit. He is very conservative and doesn't do surgery unless very necessary and he is a christian man". I simply asked for his name so incase Dr. Miller didn't work out we had another name to fall back on. Well, much to my surprise his name was Dr. Miller!! I was simply thrilled that one day before nick's appt I find out that Dr Miller is a great doctor... so she says.
Well, at the end of this class we are able to give prayer requests. So I brought up my prayer request that we would know if Dr. Miller was a great doctor and that we could trust him and that we want to know for certain if surgery was the way to go for nick's back....thats when Dana(who has lived here for several years and helps teach the class spoke up). She said that two semesters ago we had a lady named susan miller in our class and that she was certain her son was a neurosurgeon here. No one knew for certain so that night I called Susan Miller (I had her phone number from when she was in the class) and I talked to her on the phone last night with much excitment as I found out that Dr. Joshua Miller was indeed her son. Found out that he was the top of his neurosurgeon class and has won awards for being a great neurosurgeon!!!
Thank you LORD for showing us all this prior to our visit today. God truly is amazing and answers many prayers.
The visit went well today, he was extremely nice, and encouraged us that since nick has already taken the conservative treatment approach by seeking chiropractic help and has tried other measures of healing like prednisone and traction that surgery was probably the best choice of action to take at this time. So on Feb 9th nick will be having his back surgery and we can't wait for that day to arrive so he can be instantly pain free!!!
Side note #1: of course I told dr. miller that I had spoke with his mother on the phone the night before and that I know who she is. He seemed thrilled to know we knew his mom.
Side note #2: one of nicks questions to the doctor was..."will I be able to ski and do water sports this summer?" Doc replies "of course"!!!! Nick smiled from ear to ear!!!
Thanks one and all for your prayers. They have been answered! We are now praying for a safe, successful and uneventful surgery on February 9th.