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During the bleed scan test, toward the end of the test they started to lose me my blood pressure was dropping very fast, 45,40,35 and had to stop the test and rush me back to the ER. My blood pressure continued to drop, I remember telling the nurse, who kept saying hold on, and in the background saying to the other nurses were losing him, I told the nurse it's OK, I'm sorry I can't hold on any longer, I'm going, everything was turning white, not fading, just turning white, bright almost a blinding light, and I was having a hard time breathing, they were pumping blood into me pints at a time but it was rushing right back out every few min. they would have to empty the bed pan That they placed under me for it was overflowing.

By this time my cousin had called my mother, and brother was in the ER, and the ER finally located a surgeon, which told my mother that he really didn't want to operate on me but told her that there was no time to life flight to Pittsburgh, or Morgantown, because I was dying, and he had to go in, he had an idea from some of the test where in my colon I was bleeding from, and cut my colon and place a bag on me.

I remember looking into the face of my mother as she watch me dying, and her eyes touched me not with words but I knew what she was thinking and telling me, that she loved me, as she was signing all the papers for the surgery and so on, and I felt like I was floating on air as they prepared me for surgery, and the heavenly presence never left my side. They had not given me any drugs because I was in no pain. They had called the minister or preist that was on call and he was standing there also.

Well, the next thing I knew, a Christian friend of mine a ministers wife, who was a nurse just happened to be coming on duty, she was shocked to see me lying there dying. She came over and I spoke to her, I told her that I was in awesome "peace" but I asked her to promise me that she would pray for Salvation for my children Scott,Mark,Michael and Three other young men,Jordan,Chad,Kyle. She promised me she would, and then placed her hands on me and started to pray. That took courage because with today's new laws you are not allowed to pray like she did. That for sure was a step of faith for her fellow workers were all around, doctors, nurses, she just prayed.

I was becoming very cold to the touch and I saw the look on my moms face again knowing she knew I was dying, I just tried to smile, I wanted to comfort her but I had lost so much blood It was so hard to breath even with the oxygen on me, but felt warm inside, but they kept placing warmed blankets on me. I thought in the back of my mind that a gentlemen was in the room next to me complaining about pain, he seemed to be drunk, as he was brought in from the Jamboree in the hills with a broken leg he received the day before, and I was dying and had that PEACE and blessed assurance, and the presence of someone or something from heaven standing beside me wow, Praise the Lord for the peace of salvation. To rest in Jesus Christ!

Then I started thinking about My three sons were out of town at Jamboree in the Hills, and they didn't know that their dad was dying, and there was no way to contact them, no way for me to tell them that I loved them, or say good-by, and how I felt not being able to say goodby to my grandmother when she passed away. Before they took me, they asked my mother if I had a living will, and she signed for me, then I whispered to my mother, tell the boys I love them.

By then along with the blood they were pumping into me, they were giving me meds to make me sleep and I started to fade away. But it was nothing like the brightness of the earlier event, the meds were bringing on a man made feeling, the white brightness as in Nuclear Medicine was not man made, it was beyond my understanding or words to describe it to you. I only remember them placing me on the operating table and from there waking up.

Well, friends, the next thing I knew, I was in the recovery room, and the nurse told me that the doctor did not have to remove any part of my colon or place a bag on me, because the BLEED STOPPED. Healed itself the doctor said. I knew what had happened, for the very one that I trust with my life, I trust in all things, and to God be given all the glory, for He was not finished with me here on this earth yet.

Yes, God answers prayer, He sends angels to watch over us, and even push a large dog gently into a room and close the door. I remembered how God sent an angel to Jesus in the garden. I spent a few days in Intensive Care to get my blood count back up. The doctor came in and told me that the bleed stopped on its own but he found two growths up inside my upper colon concerned him and that they had to come out right away, he wanted them out as soon as my blood count was back up because they looked bad. Not to go into all the details, but they thought the growths were cancer, and was very concerned about them, and wanted them taken out while I was in the hospital. I couldn't find a specialist to remove them.

Weeks went by, then months. The surgeon that was called in the night I was bleeding was very concerned that the growths were not removed while I was in the hospital. But I could not find a surgeon to operate. The surgeon that came in that morning, sent me a letter, (and my primary physician) told me that because several months had passed that I could die from these growths and he would not be responsible, because they should have come out right away, and the earlier they were removed the better my chances, what a thing to receive certified in the mail. A letter that I was not expecting. But the continued Peace of God surrounded me as though He was holding me in the palm of His hand.

Wow, but again let me explain "peace" I had, a calming peace. In our life it is the hardest thing to do is to trust. And the evil one tries so hard to rob us of our joy and that very peace. But when I gave my life to Jesus, I also learned to Trust and obey. Yes, as a Christian I have failed in many ways and many times. Finally my family doctor was able to get me into a specialist. When the specialist contacted the hospital to make arrangements they told him it would be several more weeks before they could get me in, another delay, the attacks just kept coming. The specialist said that was not exceptable and called another hospital and made arrangements for a few days from that visit. The surgery was scheduled, right away. Three days went by and there I was again facing another storm, but in these storms the anchor held, the sails might have torn but I never doubted God! I was in His care and His will I would except, no matter what. Even when I was lying on the table I looked up at the monitor that monitors, heart rate and so on, and it said at the top of the screen Patient Dan Wheeler number 45666. ( It is said that 666 is the mark of the beast) Even right there on in that operating room the evil one tried to make me doubt and rob me of that blessed assurance of God's peace. The next thing I knew, I awakened in recovery again. The nurse came over and said, nothing removed, I thought what? The growths were GONE, and my colon was ok. The specialist told you that he would see me in 12 years for a scope.

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FRIENDS, let me explain something to you, Yes I believe that God touched me, and I give thanks, and praise, but the most awesome thing in the world, is that even on Deaths door, that a Christian has that calm assurance, that blessed quietness, that peace to be able to REST in Jesus Christ, that God seals you as a born again Christian, and that is priceless. I pray if you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, before you leave this website, before you travel from your home, tonight to lay your head down why not ask him to come into your life ? The people in the towers on 911 got up and drove or walked to work that morning, perhaps were sitting drinking a cup of coffee or reading the news, talking on the phone, just like any other day, but within two hours look what happened. I never would have thought that I would be bleeding to death in July of 2003. Are you sure? As you lay your head down tonight and close your eyes, it might be your last day here on earth.

Just as it never entered my mind on that beautiful July Evening as the sunset.

The tomb is empty, the victory is won. For those who are called by His Name and that name is Jesus.

No matter what your scars or sins may be, His mercy and grace will set you free. We all will die someday, somehow, we don't know when are life will end, I never would have thought that very morning in July I would be on deaths door. But I will say all the days of my life, better is one day in His Courts..... than thousands elsewhere. It is said on grave stones RIP or rest in peace. I ask you can you lay your head down at night and say that you can RIP. The peace of the world or the peace of God. RIP . To Rest in peace, I like to say

RESURRECTION INTER PEACE to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. And that is real PEACE knowing who holds you in the palm of His hand. The guarantee of eternal life through the salvation of Jesus Christ and the shedding of His blood for our sins. This is not my resting place.

Yes, on Deaths Door........Peace that is beyond all understanding.

It is a simple plan, but the choice is our own, nobody can do it for us.

Confess that you are a sinner and deserving of death and punishment, Confess that Jesus Christ died for all your sins by the shedding of his blood on Calvary, That Jesus Christ is the son of God and Through Him confess with your month that God has made a away for you to have eternal life through Jesus Christ, That Jesus Died, and has risen. Bow down before God and ask Jesus Christ to be Lord of your life, to change you and life in you, to wipe away all your sins of thought,word,and deed, known and unknown by you and with his blood claim and believe that you are washed now whiter than snow. Rejoice and give thanksgiving and Praise the name of Jesus that you are forgiven and believe. Find a good bible preaching church, and be baptised as a outward sign of the inward dwelling within your very soul.

Shalom "peace" What is peace, Back
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