the other day, when asked one instance where God had worked in my life; i completely forgot this one which seemed to me an endless chain of coincidences that were simply too coincidental to be believed to be such.
i needed to get my form filled out for saturday, to submit it in order to go to taiwan; this would not have been a problem if it did not include a medical form, which required two medical exams; one was an x-ray which i did the previous night, to which the results had been sent to my doctor this morning. The second was a Hepatitis B test... these results could have been acquired at a hefty price early morning; instead, i found out very recently that my grandmother had hepatitis B and that i had been vaccinated for it a long time back.
That morning then, i was headed to the hospital where i had gotten the vaccination years ago after having been told by my current doctor that i would have to sign a releasal form for her to get at the information.
having gotten there, i headed to the office and asked if i could get this done and allow my doctor to retrieve the records from archives.... i told them the vaccination was from over 2 years when query of this came up; they then proceeded to inform me that documents are discarded after 2 years and that i would have to contact the original pediatrician that prescribed the vaccination.
Unfortunately, this pediatrician was now retired and all attempt to contact her in the past week had failed; my mother had, however, left a letter in the pediatrician's mailbox.
Fortunately my ex-pediatrician's office was located near the hospital and we proceeded to go there to check if she had at least picked up the letter.
The letter was still there... just as i was walking back to the car, the lady next door who was hanging laundry told me i should put it in the other mailbox (there are two mailboxes seperated by a little stretch of stairs and fence) i then proceeded to do so after talking with her, the conversation was slightly unclear because she was quite high up and took longer than i would have thought efficient but was glad for her assistance anyway. One last thing she told my mom and i was that doctor Chiu (the pediatrician) sometimes came to check the mail and phone messages. This gave some hope and so we started backing the car up to put it in a better spot while we considered whether to go grab some breakfast first.
A lady then walked up to the car and waved, peered into the car, my mother rolled down the window, that is when we found out she was also looking for the Dr.
My mother trying to be helpful told her that the Dr. had retired and was not at the office...
The woman exclaimed and told us that she was not actually a patient but had arranged to meet Dr. Chiu later this day and that she had simply arrived early.
SCORE! AAANNNNNNDDDD the records were later retrieved ^__________^
the FORM was FILLED OUT and i'm getting ready to leave for taiwan!
the AMAZING things...
-if my grandmother did not have hepatitis B i would not have gotten tested and vaccinated before.
-if my new doctor had not suggested that i could retrieve the records from the hospital i would not have dropped by my ex-pediatrician's office at that particular time(including departure time and waiting in line in the hospital) as it would have been far out of my way to do so.
-if i had not gone at that particular time, to her office, i would have not met the lady putting out her laundry and would not have been stalled.
-if i had not been stalled we would not have come across that lady who was meeting the Dr.
-if the car we had driven that morning out of 3 or so cars was not the red one and my mother had not been with me, she would not have mistaken my mother for Dr. Chiu and stopped us,
in which event we would not have known that Dr. Chiu was actually coming at such and such time.
At least 3 of these "coincidences" could very easily have made for a different outcome if they had not been there so "coincidentally" perfect.
God's time is perfect, and this is one instance that shows God working in my life.
