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2006     Terry Phillips.

I would like to tell you about the hardest hitting wake up call I have had.

It started in 2001, I had trouble sleeping; every time I lay down to rest or sleep I started coughing and choking on fluid.  I ended up having to sit up to sleep.

My wife asked me several times to go and see a doctor.  And I finally thought it was time I took her sound advice, about getting some medical help.  That morning we went to a medical centre and I had the full examination, I was told to go straight to hospital, which I didn’t do, ignoring my wife again.

I went the next day after the medical centre rang up and stated the hospital waited all night for me to show up.  In hospital I found out I was suffering from heart failure, and was diagnosed with a heart that was enlarged so much, the doctors said it would not be able to function normally.  The heart was so large and it had an erratic beat, it was full of blood and was not pumping the blood at the right volume.  My lungs were full of fluid and I could have drowned with it.  The doctors told me bluntly that my heart was rotten, this to me made me think of a rotten apple you have just taken a big bite out of, and have that terrible taste in your mouth. That hit home to me a lot more than if they had used medical terms.

I just want to state here that I’ve never been a church person or knew any thing about Spiritualism at this point in my life. 

I had excellent treatment in hospital and they drained a lot of fluid from my lungs, I was allowed to go home after 10 days.  I was given a hand full of drugs to take every day, and told I must go on the heart transplant waiting list, to have any quality of life.  I refused to be put on the heart transplant list, this was my own decision.  There was a mention of 5 or 10 years of life with another heart.  MAYBE.  I said I would rather live with a bad and damaged heart and hope with good medicine that I would live a lot longer life than what the doctors had offered me.  So I never went on the heart list, I now know there was Spirit help with this decision because it was so easy to make, and my wife agreed to my decision as well.

After about three months I went back to work, which made me happy. My health was getting better each week and after a while I was working a full week again.  I felt so good and every thing was working well.  I felt I was back to square one with my health and got back into work like I used to.  I even stopped the pills.  I was treating this problem like it was healed and everything was back to square one again

About one year to the day after this heart problem I had a massive stroke, lost my vision and could not speak properly.  Within 10 minutes of it happening my vision came back.  In hospital they found I had a very large blood clot in my heart, and the heart was enlarged further than before.  It was then I knew why it had been uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, over the last few weeks.

A part of the clot had broken off and traveled to the brain and it was still bleeding out, continually damaging the brain.  The clot in the heart was very unstable, and the doctors stated that at any time a piece could break off and do more damage some where else in my body, or even kill me.  Doctors wanted to either inject a drug to thicken the blood to stop the bleeding out in the brain, or the opposite drug which thins the blood, to dissolve the clot in the heart, which could help save my life.  There were discussions with other hospitals around Auckland over this and I think it was around 4hours before they told us they wanted to work on the heart and just hoped the brain bleeding stopped by itself.

I agreed to this and I was injected straight away, but the nurse gave the wrong drug, which stopped the bleeding out in the brain by thickening the blood instead.  When they realized what was done they changed it over, but the drug was in my system and it took approximately 5 days of me laying still and trying not to disturb the heart too much as the clot could break up and do more damage. The bleeding out stopped.  I had four or five doctors looking in on me from then on, and I found out later that because of the clot size and the heart size, my file was used for study at the medical college in Auckland, as it was the worst case on their records. Plus they could not work out what caused the enlargement. I remember the doctors talking about that it could have been triggered by a virus.  And also they mentioned again, of the new heart being needed.

During my stay, doctors and nurses spoke to me about how sorry they felt for me to have this happen (being so young).  I would tell my wife about what they were saying to me and I truly believed they were reading someone else’s chart.  Spirit I believe kept me calm through this time as I truly did not believe I was that sick.

I spent 18 days in this room, with no windows, before they let me go home.  The whole time I was in hospital my wife and her best friends were praying for healing for me every day and night.  I found all this out after I came home.  At this point in my life having healing and prayers directed just for me felt nice and I felt special I had no idea how this would help me in the long run.

When I left hospital I was told the clot in the heart could take up to six months to dissolve and I must take it easy until it has gone completely, because jarring or falling etc could knock a bit of the clot and send it to other parts of my body.  The doctors wanted me back in four weeks to do a scan of the heart to see how big the clot was. 

With the drugs, hands on healing from my wife every night, love and prayers that I was receiving from family and friends, the scan of the heart showed the clot had completely gone in those first four weeks. The doctors were amazed and happy. From six months down to four weeks I thought they would like to know how, but no, they were just very happy for me, which was ok.

After about 10 weeks at home and slowly getting stronger, my wife asked me to go to a Spiritual Church for extra healing.  By this time I was very obedient and did as I was told.  It was not long into the healing session when I felt very, very warm and had shivers right through my body; the only touching part was when the healer placed her hands on my shoulders at the beginning to get a connection through her spirit guide.  That evening I got a crash course in what, good, Spirit loving people are capable of and I felt very comfortable in their company.  I drove home that night and felt very happy inside even though I was having trouble breathing when I tried to speak too much.  I looked forward to each Sunday service and the healing session.

I still had trouble lying on my left side, the heart was still very big and the doctors did say it would not come down very much in size.  Hearts don’t shrink back after two heart failures.

They discovered I had Heamochromotoses which can lead to enlarged hearts plus they thought I had still caught a virus and it had settled in the heart.  My heart surgeon informed me earlier last year 2007 that my file is still being looked at for study. Since my attack there have been four more cases in Auckland with the same problems and they were used at the school as well. My case was put aside.  But now all four cases have passed to Spirit, so now my file is being used again, being the only survivor.  

In 2006 my wife and I attended a Spiritual Healing meeting at the Spiritualist Alliance Church in Auckland NZ.  Ken Pretty’s Spirit Chinese healing/helper YU SIN performed psychic surgery on my heart and stated healing will take place, and that he would visit me while I was sleeping for more healing.  I was very pleased to receive this healing.

In 2007 The English Physical medium David Thompson held a healing session at the Spiritualist Alliance church in Auckland, which I attended.  David’s Spirit doctor is Dr Slivansky and while  I had healing on my heart and on my brain, the Doctor said my brain is now being rewired and stated to me after the healing was completed that I and the medical profession would get a big surprise when I had my next hospital visit.  Well we did.  The heart is now normal size and has a normal heart beat.  I could come off all the drugs, but my Cardiologist is worried that there may be a reaction, so she wants me to stay on them forever as there is no side affects from them.  She also stated that for a heart to return to normal after two heart failures is very rare. She has not known it before.  Personally, she has given me permission to return to work full time as well.

Through David Thompson’s ability I have received tremendous healing from Spirit, and only wish others who need healing could have the same opportunity to connect with Spirit as I have had.

We all need the medical profession but should not close our minds to other help that could work in conjunction with the orthodox medicines.  

Spirit has helped me for some reason, and I am very grateful.


Terry Phillips