Testimony by Kasia

Kasia

Testimony · July 1, 2020

Leukemia. First diagnosis. Acute leukemia. Three oncologists confirm that it's only a matter of time. Her blood count gets worse with every test. There's to be a test that will show what devastation the disease has caused in her body. In two days. We start praying. Each of us three sisters, wherever she lives, books a Mass. I go to my priest. I need to book a Mass. Kasia, next year, I'm on my own. In two days, Father. My sister has leukemia, in two days she has a very important test. It turns out the 7 a.m. morning Mass is for the priest's own intention. Kasia, I'm giving it up, here you go, this is more important. Somehow each of us books a Mass for 7 in the morning. The next blood count holds steady. Lymph nodes enlarged, neck, under the arm, the size of an orange. Magdalena and her husband fly off to the Holy Land. I sing in a group; I call all the places where we've sung; priests on the missions in Colombia are praying, cloistered orders, sisters and brothers from various congregations. Magda comes back from the Holy Land. The blood count is still holding steady. I find an oncologist who handles such difficult cases, and she takes on the treatment. They reclassify it from acute to chronic leukemia. I'm going to Częstochowa; when I look up the route, the Sanctuary in Gidle pops up. Not far from Częstochowa. A small statue in the altar, documented raisings from the dead... Once a year the brothers bathe the statue in wine... Magdalena loves wine... I have to go there! In Częstochowa I arrange a perpetual Mass, and in Gidle, before the Blessed Sacrament, I ask for time for Magda... The doctor orders a series of tests and qualifies her for chemotherapy. A modern kind, where they give a protein that marks the cancer cells, then when the chemotherapy goes in it attacks only the cells the protein has marked. First chemo. We pray and cry by turns... She loses consciousness, her blood pressure drops to zero, her heart isn't working properly... We thought she wouldn't make it through... She made it.. Second chemo, practically not felt at all... Finally the test results are in. Results like before the illness. Like a healthy person's. The lymph nodes are gone; the fatigue, the sweating, it's all gone. The doctors are amazed. Thank you. For the rest of my life I'll be grateful to you for obtaining this MIRACLE in prayer together with me. Please pray that this state continues!!! Four more rounds of chemotherapy to go. My God can do anything! Thank you, Mother! Pray that this state holds!