By Kristina Foster2023-11-07T08:30:00
Kristina Foster spent her life in and out of hospital and on bed rest, she prayed that God would tell her exactly what her body needed to heal, and he did.
My mother had a strange flu virus during her pregnancy with me, which caused a series of complications for my birth. I was born dying, with a collapsed lung, diaphragm hernia, and a hole in my heart. They gave my parents little hope of my survival or even being little more than a vegetative state, even after a series of operations.
I had been in and out of hospitals, receiving countless antibiotics, steroids, infusions and surgical procedures to keep me living a "normal" life.
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