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| grant and grace. {5 and 3!} |
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Over the past couple of months
I've written about my latest health situation.
I know I've been vague.
Partly out of privacy,
and partly because it takes awhile
to process the possibility of a degenerative neurological disease.
I've had lots of people asking recently,
and i know so many of my friends care so much.
thank-you.
{truly}.
with all of our families' health situations over the past couple of years sometimes I feel like we are going to wear our friends out with yet another health crises,
so i have been so incredibly humbled and encouraged
by all of my friends whom have sent flowers, cards, texts and Starbucks gift cards.
{coffee gift cards? these dear friends know me well}
lots of people have asked for an update,
and i've realized that lots of people know just bits and pieces,
so....
here's {part 1} of the whole story.
the whole truth and nothing but the truth, okay?
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Two months in a row I had some very weird "episode-like" symptoms
of left-sided tingling and weakness.
the first time it happened we thought it seemed like even perhaps a stroke,
but the symptoms disappeared and life went on...
...went on until about a month later the symptoms returned,
and returned with a vengeance.
i had serious left-sided tingling, numbness, and intense weakness.
left-leg weakness to the point of feeling like i needed a cane.
so, we called the dr.
the results were not what we expected.
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| my favorite 5-year-old. |
{2 months ago}
The white paper crinkled beneath me as I sat high on the doctor's table.
The specialist walked in the room, smiled at me. we exchanged polite pleasantries.
She sat down. She skipped over any questions about my symptoms -
{one-sided weaknes and tingling}- and pulled out the MRI report.
So, your MRI came back.
my heart paused, waiting, ready.
She continued, speaking words that did not make sense.
It shows a lesion, and says demyelinating plaque cannot be excluded.
I was confused.
She contiued.
It's indicative of multiple sclerosis.
In a life-changing instant never to be forgotten, I sharply sucked my breath in. my heart beat faster. The doctor continued talking but I couldn't hear it..
I turned to my husband sitting int the chair next to me.
My eyes wide, I mouthed
multiple sclerosis?!?
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to be continued.
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| my sweet, supportive husband |
We love you and will be with you all the way.
Praying Anna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love and prayers to you Anna!
I am so sorry to hear about this news and I will certainly be praying for you and your family. God is amazing and can exceed anything we can not even imagine. (as you know) Love you,
Aimee
First and foremost, you and your family are in my prayers for healing. MS is big, but God is bigger.
I've been following a plant based diet to help cure me from some issues (nothing related to MS). My doc told me it'd take 3 months to see improvement with diet changes. It wasn't true. I had to adjust my medication within 3 weeks. I'm off meds completely now.
Anyway, some docs says its quackery, and you should review with your doctor (I am not a doctor), but shifting to a plant based diet might be worth a trial? I started as a 30 day trial and was astounded how much it changed me. It was difficult at first and I was hoping it wouldn't work! But, it did, and now I've learned to LOVE it. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this story. It'll seem radical at first, but once you find a groove, it's kind of fun!
Again, you are in my prayers for healing. http://www.drmcdougall.com/stars/donna_mcfarland.htm
We've never met, Anna, but I've done some KCS yearbook art for your mom, and I think we have a mutual friend in Erin Miller, who is my niece.
I also have a neuromuscular disease, called ALS, and have been fussing with it now for more than 15 years—well past the five I was told I had back in 1997. You write like a pro, and you sound like an angel (an angel who likes to drink coffee:); but much more than that, you have the mind of Christ because you obviously have heard the news, accepted it as part of God's sovereign will, and are now seemingly challenging it rather than letting it challenge you. The apostle Paul did something like that himself, and he wrote about it in 2 Corinthians 12:
"...I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then He told me,
'My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness.'
"Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become!"
Paul may have had ALS, or he might have had MS; he didn't say. But I'm glad he didn't (or couldn't) identify his problem because now we can ALL relate to it and him as we struggle with our own unique "thorns." The promise is sure—that weakening on the outside produces inconceivable strength on the inside—and already, I see that strength in you. What a gift! Those who remain physically "normal" know nothing of that kind of strength, and sadly, many of them, including Christians, live their entire lives as if it didn't even exist. What a tragedy!
Sometime after Paul wrote about his illness, he wrote this to everyone who is a Christ-follower:
"Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with a glad heart. I am so pleased that you have continued on in this with us, believing and proclaiming God's Message, from the day you heard it right up to the present. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears" (Phil. 1:3–6).
Anna, I haven't walked on my own for more than a decade, much less run; but I'm looking forward to that flourishing finish right alongside the fastest man on earth. Who could ask for anything more?
Please get tested for Lyme's Disease. Many people are misdiagnosed with MS when it is really Lyme.
hi anonymous! I have been tested. :) several times. :) totally negative! :)
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