Hey, Can I Talk to Your Knee?

Date: 1.17.06

I was talking to my friend, Taylor, on the phone. She was lying in bed ready to go to sleep and her knee was really hurting her from working out on Monday and Tuesday. She hadn’t really gone to the gym much in the past few years because of bad knee pain that she would experience every time she’d run for the past four years. Her knee would even hurt her sometimes while she was driving long distances. The pain would get so bad when she ran that she’d have to stop because of the knee pain, not because she’s tired. Medically speaking, her knee pain was due to some grinding that would happen in her knee as a result of her running stride. I believe the grinding had worn her knee down. Doctors had checked it out, and it wasn’t something they could really fix. She ran 2 miles on Monday and had to stop from pain. Then she did 20 minutes on the elliptical on Tuesday, and her knee hurt her then too as well as later on that night. On Monday, her knee even buckled causing her to nearly fall over from the pain.

So she’s lying in bed on Tuesday night, and her knee is hurting her. I prayed for her knee over the phone for a minute. Then I felt like she should put the phone by her knee so I could pray for it in a different way. I told her that, and she put the phone there. So I said a few things to her knee and told the pain to leave and stuff like that. Then she came back on and said it still hurt. So I told her I felt like she should get up and walk around a little bit. She didn’t protest. She just did it (I found out later that she really didn’t want to because she was comfortable in bed). After she walked around for a few seconds, the pain went away! I could tell from her voice that something really did happen. She sounded really shocked. She sat down and stood up and did things that made it hurt before, but this time it was fine. She laid back down–this time without any pain and went to sleep.

She woke up the next morning and left me a message on the computer saying her leg still didn’t hurt. Then, she went to the gym again the next day and did some running. She said that she felt it starting to hurt a tiny bit at around mile number 2, but she just said, “I have faith. I have faith. Keep it away God. I know you can.” Then it stopped hurting completely. She ran 3.1 miles (5k), and her knee felt fine afterwards and for the rest of the night!