Our daughter Sophia has been mostly a medical enigma since birth. We could tell she was in terrible pain, but mainstream doctors only identified some significant issues that explained part of her suffering. Her overall joint pain and misery were things they could never “solve.” By the time she was 4 and 1/2, Sophia was on a huge amount of prescription medication and our family was completely drained emotionally. I felt we were truly at a breaking point. Since birth, Sophia spent anywhere from 2-12 hours a day screaming the most chilling, bloodcurdling screams her doctors had ever heard. It is hard to explain how this impacted our entire family, but needless to say, aside from medical appointments, we avoided taking her anywhere and our nerves were frazzled. As you can imagine, to no avail, we tried every possible specialist the medical world had to offer…or so we thought.
In October of 2012, some dear friends of ours told us about Tim Hodges. They shared miraculous testimonials of how he healed not only their own chronic and acute pain issues, but also those of MANY friends they had referred to him. They went so far as to say that 100% of the many people they referred to Tim reported at least a significant decrease in pain, if not a complete relief. Of course that statistic is extremely positive and optimistic sounding, but I have to admit that we were extremely skeptical. Our experience so far had been a roller coaster of hope with each new specialist, only to be followed by despair as we were left with no answers and continued pain. But we felt we had absolutely nothing to lose by meeting Tim and seeing what he had to say or what he could do.
I don’t really know how to explain the experience of Tim’s assessment. People need to see him in action to believe it. He did not need to know anything about her background…he simply “scanned her dura” and actually TOLD ME what her symptoms were…more accurately than I could have relayed them. I think I had to pick my jaw up off the floor because I was in such shock. He listed symptoms we had long ago stopped mentioning to doctors because they had become part of what we had come to expect in Sophia. Another stunning thing he told us was that he thought it would probably only take 5-6 sessions to help her!?!?
After each session, as Tim aptly prepared us, Sophia felt worse for 24 hours or so. But the unmistakable improvement following each session had us, her doctors, and our friends in complete disbelief!! By the time we completed our 5th session, Sophia was a completely different child!!
We never realized how much Sophia’s pain behavior crippled us as a family. The first few times we felt brave enough to go on a walk or to the park…or to a friend’s house, we all marveled!! Our new Sophia is AMAZING!!! She is sweet, funny, delightful, patient, kind, well mannered and just a source of JOY for us! We have all been so deeply moved by the experience of getting to know who Sophia REALLY WAS…under all that pain. We have fallen in love with a little girl we never had the privilege to know. That rips my heart out. It really does. It took us until she was almost 5 to get to truly know Sophia. We probably would have never met the REAL Sophia if not for Tim Hodges.
You can see the difference in Sophia’s physical health when you look at her pictures. The “old” Sophia is extremely pale with dark sunken eyes and what we used to call her perma-frown. No one could ever get her to smile..it was so sad. The new Sophia smiles, laughs, giggles and just LOOKS like a healthy girl!!
We are completely overwhelmed with gratitude toward Tim Hodges for the miraculous change he brought to our precious girl and our family through his incredible gift. We tell everyone we can about the transformation he has brought to Sophia’s life!!
Thank you, Tim Hodges from the bottom of our hearts!!!