Man with Severe Pain Vomits 2 Live Lizards During Hospital prayers
The businessman, Edward Asuelimen, had woken up in the morning of July 16 with severe pain in his stomach.
"I woke up a few minutes after 5 am. In less than
two hours, I had visited the toilet four times.
Then I felt excruciating
pain in my stomach. It got to a point where I could hardly prepare my kids for school,"
Asuelimen recounts. Even his wife was very worried. But he managed to pull himself
together and left their home with the children.
Halfway to the children's school, the pain became unbearable and he decided to get some drugs from a store on the way. Yet, a few minutes after delivering his kids at school, Asuelimen barely managed to walk out of the store by gripping the walls for support.
"I prayed hard to get back home. Anybody who saw me at that point would know that
there was something wrong with me," he says.
He kept praying and fighting the pain raging in his stomach until he got home. He was so weak that he could not step out of his car.
Asuelimen's wife was terribly worried about his condition that she suggested seeking medical attention in a hospital nearby, because at this time he was gasping for breathe and saying, "Help me quickly, I can't breathe."
The businessman had no choice other than to listen to his wife. Eventually, he was admitted at Unity Clinic and Maternity Home, which was nearby.
At intervals, his panic-
stricken wife would call out his name just to be sure
that he was still alive.
"I had never experienced that kind of pain before, he said. I was merely hanging on with all my strength and faith in God. At the hospital, the medical director and his staff were already having their morning devotion. When my wife called the doctor and he helped me to come out of my car, the only thing I could
say was, 'my tommy, my tommy' I was given an injection and somebody stayed with me, all the while praying as the rest continued the morning devotion."
"The Holy Spirit pushed me to speaking in tongues at that point. Not long afterwards, I felt a strong urge to vomit and I did."
Asuelimen said he vomited two live lizards in the hospital.
The incident however caused consternation among members of the staff of the hospital and other patients present. "When my wife tried to get something to clean my mouth and pack it, I saw
a lizard crawling out from the vomit on the ground
.
The nurse that attended to me saw another one and wanted to kill it," he says. When he saw the lizards, the first thought that struck him was
that he had been poisoned.
But the pain ceased after he vomited the reptiles. The doctor told him that he had just received divine healing.
"I got well almost instantly. Even I joined the hospital staff in burning the lizards. I went home had my bath and continued the day's business as if nothing had happened to me," he says.
The news of the event spread like wildfire. Soon Asuelimen started receiving phone calls from his friends, relatives, neighbours and associates.
They congratulated him for surviving a close shave with death.
Eventually, the incident became the talk among
the residents of Kubwa. Everybody seemed to be
mystified and for some time, they discussed the incident in hushed tones.
The lizards are still the subject of debate in the
community and the residents are torn between accepting the mystery or waving it aside, since they are not fully convinced that such an event is scientifically possible.
But Asuelimen says, "I am not a medical doctor,
and I know that it cannot be proved scientifically. But I know that faith is older and
stronger than science. The faith we are talking about is God himself. God is the creator of the universe, so invention and science itself is
dependent on God.
"Some things are real and beyond proof. We don't have to subject God's miracle and
existence to scrutiny. It does not make sense because I know there are many things that God can do, which science cannot prove. I am talking about divine healing and miracles in particular.
The fact that science cannot prove it does not mean they are not real."
The Medical Director of Unity Clinic and Maternity, Dr. Stephen Nwaedozie, confirmed the incident. He says, "When I got to the car, I saw Edward writhing in pain.
I brought him out of the vehicle and attended to him. We started praying for him. Not long afterwards, my nurses told me that he had
vomited lizards.
"I personally burnt the lizards and poured anointing oil on them and buried their remains.
As soon as we did that, the man recovered from the stomach pain. He is a child of God and with faith he told them to bring him to my hospital and when he came here, God delivered him. So
we praise God."
Nwaedozie admitted that there was no way science could explain the appearance of the lizards in Asuelimen's vomit. "If I was not there
and it didn't happen right before me, I won't believe. So that is why we have to tell the world the truth," he says.
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