Testimony of Healing March 6, 2017 Issue

Quick recovery from head injury

Susan Cooper

Nearly 17 years ago my husband and I began to prepare a small farming operation, having bought an acreage of land next to our home. We planned to rear alpacas and had to create a number of distinct field areas. That meant fixing some 250 posts into the ground.

I would like to share what happened one late afternoon, after I’d worked most of the day together in the fields with my husband. We were putting in some fence posts, using a post bumper, an instrument I can only describe as like a cast iron hollowed drainpipe about two feet long with handles on either side. I was holding the post, and as my husband lifted the post bumper, it caught the top of the post and crashed down on my head. I did not lose consciousness, but I slumped to the ground.

My first thought was “no condemnation.” I never, at any time, felt anything but great love for my husband, and as he called out to me, my only thought was that I didn’t want him to feel any blame. Within a minute I was able to get to my feet and realized there was profuse bleeding from a cut on my head. I had also badly bitten my tongue.

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