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 Find a good, small church. I have a friend that cut hair and has 4 kids. One was an infant at the time. She was driving them home from school and fell asleep/passed out. Wrecked into trees and it tore her left arm off out the window from a tree. She said she had a voice telling her to make a tourniquet. Her oldest boys ran to a neighbors probably a half a mile to a mile. The neighbor at the time was Clayton King a pastor. The ambulance came someone had a cooler and put her arm in it. Put ice on it. She was taken to a local hospital. Because of weather they couldn’t air lift her to a trauma hospital. They drove her 50+ miles to the trauma hospital. As a church we came together and prayed had probably 20-30 people on a Friday night. It was an amazing experience. Somehow they were still able to reattach her arm.  She has used of her arm but not fully 15 years later. It was a miracle. Everything lined up for her to be able to reattach her arm. Much less that she didn’t bleed out from losing her arm and God telling her to wrap her arm with the seat belt to not bleed out.