"God healed me. He can do anything"

Tara had endured 20 months of severe pain, hospitals and hadn’t been able to eat a single meal in that time, then God moved miraculously. She told Chris Rolfe her story of despair, faith and the medical results her specialists couldn’t explain.

“We did the test wrong, we’ll have to repeat it,” the specialist told his team.

But lying on the hospital bed in front of him, Tara knew that no matter how many times they tested her the results mystifying her medical team would be the same – because God had answered her prayers for healing after 20 months of agonising pain and life-threatening illness.

Tara’s story began around Christmas 2023.

“I began struggling to eat, felt sick all the time, had no energy and lost a lot of weight really quickly,” she explains.

“I didn’t know it then, but that Christmas dinner was my last proper meal and the next time I’d eat something that resembled a dinner would be August 2025.”

As Tara’s condition deteriorated, even drinking water caused excruciating pain.

Malnourished, she began being fed through nasal feeding tubes. Eventually, specialists discovered that two arteries and a vein in her abdomen were significantly compressed.

“I was diagnosed with vascular compression syndrome. There’s only five known cases in the UK, so it’s incredibly rare.”

Relatives, friends and her church family from Ingatestone Elim supported Tara and her two children, Eva (eight) and Finn (three), through months of appointments, emergency admissions, tests and severe pain.

“I couldn’t have managed without their hospitality and them being there for us on so many nights when I was in hospital. They advocated with medics not to give up on treating me too.”

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