“I was working alone on the roof of a 100 year old commercial building near Cape Cod. I had called a friend (and brother in Christ) to come up on the roof to visit me. It was a very sunny day with little wind. I was dragging a 36-foot long sheet of roofing material, when I caught a glimpse of my friend, Ron, walking on the roof two floors below me.

I was walking backwards and thought I had another five or ten feet to go, wrong! I stepped off the roof and found myself out there like Wile E. Coyote; then gravity kicked in. I had enough presence of mind to swing my arms in an attempt to land flat on my back, rather than on my head. It hurt when I hit and I could not feel my legs. Ron took off for help. As I lay there on the roof, I went into a prayer state. I was reciting in my mind some verses form Jeremiah 17," Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and in whose hope the Lord is, for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when the heat cometh." I was actually so comforted, I fell asleep for a few moments.

The Onset Fire Department and EMTs did a wonderful job of lowering me down from the roof to the ground level. I had eight broken vertebra and during a 9-hour surgery, it was necessary to fuse five of them with bone from my hip and a combination of two eight inch long titanium rods and ten three inch long screws. I was confined to a back brace for three months, but I did have a full recovery. I have no pain.

"Dealing with the Medi-Share staff has been great! This is one of the very few organizations where I know I am talking to a real person who is speaking to me as a brother or sister in Christ. When my back was injured, I was very fortunate to be a member of CCM. Sharing with the Members of Medi-Share gives me joy and gives them hope."

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