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* I had been having internal bleeding for 3 weeks. I made an appointment to see my Colon surgeon, but have since canceled the appointment. My G.P. ran may prescription drug list and found two of my “taken as needed” meds crossed my daily aspirin regimen – they were going toxic and causing the internal bleeding… I stopped the aspirin while I’m getting over the stuff I need the PRN meds for. SO I am no longer having the bleeding. Praise Jesus! I still have nausea - so I'm not completely over it yet.
* I had kidney stone decide to say hello. It was an unfriendly visitor – but after 2 days of that – I’m cool.
* I fell twice and ended up in remarkable pain with both knees... While waiting to see my knee surgeon – I had a Gout attack. I upped my Allopurinol (which has triggered my migraines – but there’s nothing I can do to change that right now.) …My Migraines sometimes trigger stroke-like symptoms... so I fret about taking the Allopurinol.
Since my Podiatrist was out of town – I went to my G.P.
He gave a medicine that stops the Gout pain in 24 hours – (and guys, the pain of Gout is beyond extreme.)
The medicine is the size of the head of a straight pin – and you take 2 pills, wait one hour and take 1 pill and that’s it. Just three pills total.
Oh – and it is guaranteed to cause liver damage.
Yeah – been pain free since – but there’s clear evidence that there has been some damage done.
My Doc understands the hideous pain I’ve been in – and that pain killers destroy my kidneys – but he felt the Vicodin was the best short term option to get me through this horror – ‘cause he KNOWS I do not take pain killers on a regular basis.
* I finally saw my Orthopedic Surgeon Thursday the 8th – he says I have "Type 2" sprains in both knees. Type one is badly strained and swollen – Type 2 is slightly torn ligaments – Type 3 is completely torn.
As a Diabetic – and someone with allergies to many types of Cortisones – I usually refuse. (It causes Diabetic’s blood sugar to shoot up for days.) My sugar has actually been amazingly good through most of this. (Normal is 70 to 126.)
I said ok to a Cortisone shot in the left – and I’ll do one in the right in 2 weeks after my sugar comes back down. You risk heart attack and stroke and coma any time you push over 250 – mine hits 303 and tends to hold there, on this shot… so I’m taking lots of Cinnamon caplets to bring it down. So far – that’s helping.
Note: When I began seeing this doctor – he told me that I was born with an odd little deformity that explains my life long knee pain: while my shin bones are perfectly straight from knee to floor – and my right thigh bone sat straight on my right shin bones (ball ends to ball ends) – my left didn’t. The left thigh bone was cantilevered out with the right side ball was in the sin bone valley. There was no scar tissue – so no accident caused that… it’s just how I was built.
It may seem weird... but I usually don’t ask God to heal me. I figure I created the opportunity for most of my illnesses myself with my weight. I just ask for relief and for the ability to endure – and I just take it… you know?
The Orthopod told me I have many large bone spurs coming off the thigh and shin bones – he showed me on the X-rays.
Yes. Their always painful.
He showed me I had no breaks – but after examining me – he said he couldn’t see better without an MRI – and I can’t do an MRI because of 11 metal staples left in me after the emergency gall bladder surgery in 1986. …So we’re going the shot way to avoid surgery… and of course, me getting back in the pool and working toward healing my tendons.
I didn’t realize until I got home with the digital copy of my X-rays… neither one of us noticed it…
My left thigh bone now sits properly on the left shin bone.
God healed it and I didn’t know!
He always does weird little healings on me. God will always fight for me – and help me endure.
* Staying in bed with my knees and Gout foot constantly raised have been causing many Charlie horses – so that’s unfriendly.
* I've had a leaking roof in my home for quite a while now - and it was leaking right over my computer until we spent a week moving furniture. We were told by roofing contractors that the minimum for a new roof will be over $15,000.00 - which we do NOT have. The insurance company refuses to pay for the roof. (Long Story.) We have made a contract with a roofer willing to do the back of the house to stop the leaks – and then the front when we can afford it… he can’t start until the rains stop… so we still have internal leaks. The insurance company is paying for the *inside* ceiling damage and we’ve met with the contractor. If you've seen the weather channel - you know it's been raining in Texas for nearly 2 weeks straight now.
* We’ve found a guy who’s willing to restore our cars and only do a little at a time as we can afford it. Everyone else wanted a lump sum payment to do everything all at once. He’s restoring my rusty old Buick as we speak. We’ll do dad’s poor wrecked blue Oldsmobile afterward, if he does a great job with mine. (I had a bad wreck last August in dad's car. A lady T-boned me.)
* God’s been so kind by helping me during all this.
Thank you to God for getting a volunteer to teach my Sunday School class for me. I’ll still be out this Sunday – but I’m hoping to teach at the Women’s Missionary Union the following Tuesday – if I can get a ride. I think I can handle my knees and foot being down for a little over an hour without too much trouble.
Thank you God for my friend who took me to get some of my shopping done at Walmart the other day.
Thank you God for helping me keep my hormone levels straight – and the sweet friends who were there for me when it got emotionally and physically difficult.
Thank you for all of you who have been so precious and have kept me in your prayers even when you didn't know why I've been so absent around here. You don’t know how much that means… really… ‘cause I would NEVER have survived all these things that happened these past two ½ weeks without those prayers!!!!!!
Thank you – and MOST of all – THANK GOD!
Peace, precious ones. --De
