Sammi Sallee got the news that no woman wants to hear. Doctors had found a large mass on her ovary. The kind of mass that does not belong there. The kind that changes the way you think about your body, your future, your plans.
The word "mass" is the clinical way of saying: something is growing inside you, and it should not be.
The Diagnosis
The imaging was clear. A large mass on her ovary, big enough to be concerning, big enough to require surgical intervention. The medical team did not take a wait-and-see approach. Surgery was scheduled. They were going to go in and remove it.
Sammi was facing one of the most frightening scenarios a woman can face — a growth in her reproductive organs with a surgical timeline that left little room for second opinions or alternative plans. The mass was there. It needed to come out. That was the consensus.
The Prayer
But Sammi did not let the medical timeline become the only timeline in her story. She prayed. Not once, in a moment of desperation, and then moved on. She prayed persistently. Her community prayed with her. Her church rallied around her. People who loved her carried her name before God day after day.
There is a difference between a desperate prayer and a persistent one. A desperate prayer says "please" once and hopes for the best. A persistent prayer says "please" every single day and refuses to stop until something shifts. Sammi's community was persistent.
They did not pray instead of medicine. They prayed alongside the medical plan. The surgery stayed on the calendar. But so did the prayers.
The Surgery That Was Not
When the day came — when Sammi was prepped for surgery, when the anaesthesia was ready, when the surgical team was assembled and the operating room was sterile and waiting — something had changed.
The mass was gone.
Completely gone. The surgeon went in expecting to find a large growth on her ovary. Instead, there was nothing. No mass. No residual tissue. No evidence that it had ever been there. The doctor confirmed it: the mass had disappeared.
The surgeon had nothing to remove.
The Confirmation
This was not a case of misdiagnosis. The original imaging had clearly shown a mass. It had been measured. It had been documented. It had been significant enough to warrant surgery. Multiple medical professionals had reviewed it and agreed: it was there.
And then it was not.
The doctor confirmed the disappearance. This was not a matter of faith versus science — the science confirmed what faith had prayed for. The mass was real. The disappearance was also real. And the medical team had no explanation for the gap between the two.
What This Means for You
If you are a woman facing a diagnosis related to your ovaries, your womb, your reproductive health — and the fear of what they might find is keeping you up at night — Sammi Sallee's story is here to tell you something specific.
God knows what is growing inside your body. He knew about Sammi's mass before the imaging found it. And between the diagnosis and the surgery, He removed it. Not through the surgeon's hands. Before the surgeon's hands.
If you are waiting for an operation, if the surgery date is circled on your calendar, if the anxiety of what they will find is heavy — pray. Ask your people to pray. Not as an alternative to medicine, but alongside it. Because sometimes when the surgeon goes in, God has already been there.
Sammi's surgeon had nothing to remove. That is not a medical anomaly. That is God doing what He has always done — healing people who ask.
