Surviving Medical Trauma with God's Help

By Jane Swanson

Jane Swanson worked as a professional artist all her adult life, with the exception of a few years, when she sold real estate. One afternoon, in what should have been a quick trip to the office to pick up a fax, turned tragic and left her fighting for her life at the hospital and left three others dead. Surviving Medical Trauma with God's Help is a true story of faith, determination, and inspiration. Read on to find out how Jane meets her guardian angel and how reciting scripture saved her life and fueled her recovery to return to work as an artist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644162200

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Surviving Medical Trauma with God's Help

Jane Swanson

Copyright © 2019 by Jane Swanson

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Who I Am

The Trauma

Hospital Stay

Rehab: Therapy

Recovery

Trials, Setbacks, and Endurance

Reformations

Prayer Warriors

While I Was Sleeping

Art

Introductions

The following story of my medical trauma is not meant to be an historical account. Instead, it is an inspirational account of my medical trauma, recovery, and reformations. I may leave out many details and facts not relevant to the inspirational story. Or I may leave out details because I was unconscious when they happened. I share my story for Bible-study teaching purposes.

I choose to share the personal part of my story that no reporter was told or could have known. This is the inspirational account of my story. By sharing, I hope that someone may learn and see how having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can lift you up through any trauma in your own life.

The office shooting tragedy for which I was a part of played over and over again on the extensive radio and TV news coverage that day. My face and name with the moniker sole survivor of the office shooting tragedy was replayed so many times that, for years later, I would be routinely asked, Excuse me, ma’am, but are you that shooting-survivor lady?

This would happen in grocery store lanes, restaurants, or any places I was recognized. I would always say, Yes, I am Jane Swanson. Praise God I’m fine, but why do you ask?

Well, I prayed for you.

Hug.

Thank you. Prayer works.

People’s memories held so tight to this story that it required about five years for this scene to stop replaying.

People thought they knew all about this shooting based upon what they saw on TV, but the truth is, no one but me understood why I was a survivor that day.

Who I Am

It may be important to know some basic facts about me to see why I reacted the way I did. I grew up in a military family, moving about every two years of my young life until my father (marine officer of twenty years) retired. We then moved to San Antonio, Texas, to be close to his siblings and our aging grandmother. We settled in Texas in 1973. I was twelve. I have spent my entire adult life living in Texas. Myself, my brother, and my sister were raised with a strong Catholic foundation. My parents believed in community service. By their living example, they taught us:

"…to do what is right, to love mercy, to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).

I went to a Catholic university. I married my high school sweetheart in the University’s chapel in 1983.

We had only one son, born in 1991. We sent him to private Christian School until middle school, where I taught art for a few years, until I elected to sell real estate strictly part-time to remain active in my