Holy Interventions

My husband, Lionel and I thought we were living our best life during our dating days and early marriage. We were partying several nights a week, hosting parties, attending parties, drinking heavily and living life to the fullest, we thought. In 1997, Lionel suddenly started having some very alarming symptoms indicating something was wrong. His leg started dragging, he would have to lift it into the car, slurred speech, and left arm weakness. I was working at a clinic as…

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I met Lionel Wallace in February 1995. I was a nurse working at the pain clinic and he was an engineer working in electronic sales. I was 25 years old and Lionel was 29. I had been dating several different guys but no relationship was going anywhere. Lionel had gotten a few too many speeding tickets and had to go to driving school. One of the nurses I worked with had also gotten too many tickets and had to go…

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After being diagnosed with a blood disorder called Ideopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura, a low platelet count, I wanted to become an oncology nurse. When I stopped treatments and got stronger, I started back to college and fulfilled my dream. I had never enjoyed school but once I started nursing school, I loved it. I would even turn down going out to party on the weekends to stay home and study. God was sanctifying me and I did not even realize it….

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When I was 20 years old, I was diagnosed with a blood disorder that God used to change the trajectory of my life. I had completed my first year at Auburn as a fashion merchandising major. Just four days before I was to return for my second year, I was at CCI seeing an oncologist/hematologist because my platelet count was dangerously low. It was so low I had to be admitted to the hospital for a bone marrow biopsy to…

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