Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony. – Psalms 6:2
“It’s a gift from GOD.”
“Every time I prayed, I felt peace and security.”
“I was afraid, but also at peace.”
These quotes come directly from an Israeli woman who had a malignant tumor that almost took her leg and had nothing left to do but pray. Miraculously, her prayers worked and she was healed.
Therese Daoud was scheduled to have surgery to amputate her leg, but after it was canceled three different times for bureaucratic reasons, the Christian woman believed it was a sign.
“I felt pain in my leg, in my ankle, with swelling,” she recalled.
Three months later, doctors found that her tumor had disappeared. “If someone had told me this story, I would have said that both the patient and doctor were psycho. It’s impossible,” her doctor said.
Daoud had consulted with oncology experts in Israel and the United States and the unanimous opinion was that she should have her leg amputated. When the surgery was canceled three different times, Daoud took it as a sign that she should not undergo the procedure. “It was clear to me she was going to die within a short time,” said Bickels, head of the oncology department at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital. “She is an educated, intelligent and sane woman, and when a person makes such a decision and is cognizant of its significance, we respect it.”
Daoud returned to her home in Ussfiya, and Arab village outside Haifa, where she prayed for her health. Three months later, she went back to the hospital for a consultation with her doctor.
“I asked her what happened,” Bickels recalled. “She grinned widely and said, ‘I prayed.’ I sent her for an MRI and the tumor had shrunk dramatically. I had not seen anything like this or heard of such a thing. I do not know of a cancer of this type that retreats.”
Daoud underwent another biopsy, which revealed the tumor was gone.
Professor Jacob Bickels, her doctor, says the tumor was “about the size of an orange.” He was rather shocked when he discovered it had disappeared.
