A Limp Lost Supernaturally

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When I was ten years old, my mother brought me to a specialist in Pheonix, Arizona, because I was having some trouble walking. Right off the bat, the doctor said I had a bad case of what was called infantile paralysis. It was a very new disease at the time, and doctors didn’t know much about it. Now it is called polio.

My mom and I cried all the way home from the doctor. Polio was a dreaded disease, very crippling, and already I had curvature of the spine and my left calf and foot were very weak. My family moved from Flagstaff to Phoenix because of it, so they could put me in a crippled children's home for treatment.

I was in there for several months. Because the disease makes you very stiff, the staff worked to keep my body limbered up. Back then, they did that by putting hot packs on me three to four times a day. It wasn’t pleasant, but it helped keep me from becoming completely crippled.

When it was time to leave the children’s home, they were going to give me a shoe that had a platform on it, because I had one leg that was two to three inches shorter than the other, and it affected the way I walked. But I didn't want to wear those shoes. I was just a child and I wanted to wear regular shoes so I didn’t feel like I was crippled.

My mom realized how traumatic it all was for me and did what she could to help. We had to really shop to find shoes that I liked that would also be supportive. We did find good shoes, but the difference in the length of my legs made me walk with a pronounced limp.

When I got older, I went to the University in South Carolina, and during that time, I took a sewing course. The difference in my leg lengths was so pronounced, my instructor taught me to make the left side of a skirt different than the right, so the skirt’s hem would be even at the bottom.

I had learned to live with the limp, but what really bothered me the most was my back. I had a lot of back problems and a lot of pain that continued to get worse as I got older. By the time I was a single parent raising four children, my pain was chronic, which made my already stressful life very difficult.

Then I heard about the Happy Hunters. Charles and Frances Hunter were Christians who believed in healing. So I decided to go to their meeting with  some friends just to go, not even thinking about being healed. Really, I just wanted to see what they did.  But the Lord saw my discomfort and pain and decided to do something about it that day, which was wonderful.

At the meeting, the Hunters told everyone that had back problems to stand up. We all did, and then they told us to sit down in some other chairs in a row. Then they had other believers who had learned to pray for the sick come kneel in front of us all.  The person in front of me lifted my legs onto her knee and held my two feet together.

I don’t know how to explain it, and there was no other sensation but my leg stretching out. As that person held my feet, my leg grew out to the same length as the other. It was quiet and simple, but God did an amazing miracle right then.

That one small moment changed my life! Not only did I not limp any longer, after years of dealing with tremendous back pain, the pain stopped and I never had problems with back pain again. My foot and my ankle are still weak, but I believe with all my heart that God’s going to finish the job. Then I will have another story to tell about his goodness!

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In addition to single-handedly raising her four children, Danene Crammer was a worship leader and involved in prison ministry for many years in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Because of Danene's faith in God, she has had many supernatural events occur in her life.