Posted on 01/17/2014 6:14:56 AM PST by trussell
God love you! Prayers for improvement in all aspects! As Christ bore his sufferings for all of mankind, consider ways your sufferings can be used for Him.
They won’t put me on Valium for long term therapy...since I had sleep apnea, they said valium had a tendency to make you quit breathing during the night, especially with sleep apnea. My apnea has gone down enough that I no longer need treatment for it (cpap), but they still won’t give me valium except when they want to calm me for a procedure.
Would this include using my pain to encourage prayer for relief and including the needs of others while I'm in prayer? I pray for hours, every day...and pray for others while I'm at it for myself.
Prayers
Hallelujah for answered prayers!
C6 is the same one I herniated. I also have degenerative disc disease with sciatica pinched. I know how bad it is when both ends of your spine hurt. Lol. Remember a surgeon is always ready to cut. Think about it. I have a cousin who still has pain because he had surgery on the same disc. I know that the pinch kills the nerve. That’s why I no longer have pain. Just think about it before you consent to surgery.
You bet!!! What a great act of love and charity!!! Your continued faith, in the face of great suffering, is a beautiful witness. While I don’t believe God wishes us to suffer, He allows it to bring about an increase in the Kingdom. Your suffering is not in vain, and your witness is bringing people closer to God.
Please preserver in your prayer and faith, as you are doing mighty things.
May God bless you, and grant you relief of your pain.
Declare healing over every inch of your body. Declare the blood of Jesus over your body. Declare favor and God’s provision over your medical care.
Father God,
I thank you that doors are opening for Trussell. I thank you for her heart of intercession for others. Loose healing in the name of Jesus. By His stripes we were healed.
Amen.
Do you take vitamin and mineral supplements?
I use to... but with no income, I can’t afford to get them. I got a bottle of multiple vitamins as a Christmas gift. It was the new soft chewables. They are long since gone! I always felt “a little bit” better while taking the vitamins. Had a little bit easier time staying awake during the day.
Bless you, T. I am so happy to read that the tumor will be gone soon.
I know that you hurt terribly, but please be careful when considering additional surgeries. I’d be tempted TODAY to go for another one myself if I thought it would help, LOL, but they won’t touch it after the last surgeon did his thing.
Lately, I’m disturbing my better half at night every time I let out a little shout. And that shout, I guarantee ya, is not caused by anything pleasant. He is on me now to have something done about my jaw bone, shoulders and back, and to get the mangled knees and my hips replaced. He insists that we not sleep apart which makes me feel guilty knowing that I’m waking him all night when he’s got to hit work early in the morning.
But, better days are ahead. And I wouldn’t know where to start with surgeries anyway since the wreckage is from head to toe. I’m too scared to have another surgeon make a cut on me. It always sounds good when you’re in terrible pain, doesn’t it? “Ah! We’ll fix ya right up!”
You’re kind of in the darned if you do and darned if you don’t position, aren’t you? Whatever you do, please keep me informed on what’s going on. You know what’s going on with me when there’s a long spell of silence, but I’ll be back around eventually.
Just be careful, and please keep posting, T. And keep that chin up. You’re a strong woman. The pain will sometimes decide that it wants to move out and cleave unto someone else for a while, even though it returns from time to time wanting to make nice and all. ;-)
Let me know if I can help you in any way, T. You know I mean that.
I keep you and yours in my prayers night and day.
HUGS,
SC
...and you know you are in my prayers every day! Is there anything they can even DO with your jaw? I didn’t know that condition allowed for corrective surgery?! I miss you when the pain keeps you away, so I pray all the time that your pain is relieved.
I’m really worried about doing anything more with my spine...the last few things didn’t work out so well, why would anything else? They will have to give me some pretty strong assurances that it will be different. I need my hands to work, but I also need some help with the pain levels :(
Ah, you know what? The jaw issue I spoke of has nothing to do with the TN. I didn’t think about it because I’m so used to my own self and how ridiculous the situation is. There ARE surgeries for TN. I had the gamma knife radiation years ago to no avail. This prob, though, is a bone infection in the upper jaw. LOL. It’s been there since the really bad wreck years ago. It’s incurable, according to some. I don’t even know anymore. No two docs seem to agree on squat. I got it stirred up last year or the year before, can’t remember which, when I got talked into having a root canal done in that area. Should have left well enough alone. I was supposed to have gone on an IV of antibiotics for a year starting last year, but that didn’t happen for several reasons. I have to laugh, because … there’s no other option. That’s why I simply put my husband off when he’s wanting me to get something done. “Whatchoo want me to do? Seriously? Where do I start?”
Phht. It’s all good and everything will be fine after some sweet sleep, which I hope comes TODAY. (Please, Lord, please.)
Thank you so much for remembering me in your prayers while you’re in such a bad way, T. There’s no better gift than prayer. I really, really appreciate it.
Please forgive me if there are many errors. I’ve been without sleep several nights and I’m error prone. My eyes are frippin’ crossed and they feel like I’ve been in a boxing ring. My dog won’t even come ‘round me.
Lost my train of thought. About those back surgeries, T …
My father, God rest his sweet soul, was very tall. Born at some 14 and half pounds. I got my height from him. He suffered with back problems as long as I can remember and I reckon that my brother and I got some of that from him, too.
An orthopaedic surgeon once told me that the taller the person, the more room for error. I believe him.
Daddy had 2 back surgeries … or 3. I can’t quite remember. He always told me, “Never let them cut on you the first time, because they’ll never stop.”
My brother had one failed neck surgery before he was 40. “Never again.”
Remember that I was supposed to have 4 back surgeries within a matter of weeks? Back to back? Then another neurosurgeon said he could do the job in 3. That was for the lumbar probs. I never got to even the second surgery due to the leg paralysis from the first one.
A year after that surgery, I went to another neurosurgeon to have the other junk finally put in. He did the scans and mri and such, and came back and said, “No way, my lady. Nooo way. Just leave it be and try not to think of it.”
Am I better for the surgery? No.
My stomach rolls a little bit thinking about back surgery for anyone, T. Seems to me that the docs want to tell their patients that there’s no guarantee when they’re shuffling papers, talking under their breath and walking out the door.
Will you be better off? That’s the question. Only you can decide. It may be that it works for you and relieves your pain. I pray so, T. My goodness, do I. It’s just that when a person is in such pain for so long a time that any promise is easy to accept. And I understand. I know you want and need relief. I just wish for you to be very careful in your decisions. Have you had time to check out the surgeon’s record? Had I known that the one I had was shuffled to 6 or 7 or so different states in a short period of time, I probably would not have let him near me. I stupidly decided to check his record after I couldn’t walk.
Ah, truth be told, I may have done it anyway. Like you today, I just wanted relief and he seemed to be holding it in his hands. Hindsight and all that, it doesn’t matter anyway at this point. I lean on Him and try to keep going.
Right now, though, I’m going to go lean in some hot water for a while. If I don’t fall asleep I’m coming back to FR. I don’t figure I’m going to make it very far from here today anyway, so write me back if you’re up to it. If not, you know I understand.
All my best, sweet friend.
I feel for you with the lack of sleep...I’m having the same problems. I can’t sleep through the night because of the pain waking me up...so instead, I get a little bit at night, and then a little bit here and there during the day. The phone rings and I’m startled awake. I’ve been on an antibiotic for a UTI, Same UTI I’ve had since I went in for the stimulator implant. They had me on 3 antibiotics then, one of them given through the IV...the other 2 were pills. That was last Feb...and I still have the damn thing. I hate all this change in my meds trying to get me something that works. Yet they won’t fight for the better pain med that they knew I was going to need. They will eventually have to fight for it, either that or they will have to do the implanted pain pump.
I look forward to sleeping, I look forward to having a (mostly) pain free day, I just want to feel at peace, just for a little bit.
I remember you telling me about the infection...that’s CRAZY that you still suffer from that all this time after it set in! There HAS to be something they can do to make it go away! THAT will be in my prayers all night tonight and every time I pray. One of these days, we are going to have to exchange phone numbers so we can both take a break from typing and talk. :)
Hope you are enjoying your “lean into hot water”, I’m going to lean back with a bottle of spirits...I have ONE (1) bottle of fuzzy navel wine cooler...my last one I have been saving it for celebration of my disability being approved, but I’m going to drink it tonight. At this rate, I’m not sure when/if I’m ever going to get approved. :(
Prayers continue....
Hope all goes well.
Happy Birthday.
I’m going in for 2 “procedures”...the 28th is a CT milogram under “twilight anesthesia”, to find out what is causing the lack of strength and ability in my hands and left arm, as well as the pain in my right hand. June 2nd is the removal of the encapsulated tumor in my abdomen.
The company for my spinal cord stimulator said there is no reason to resort to replacing the battery yet...until they have an upgraded model or a full breakdown of the current one, they don’t want to do that...so that is one expected surgery that is on hold!
Prayers up.
I continue to pray for your temporal healing, and that your current suffering brings you closer to Our Lord.
Job’s “friends” to him to curse God and die. A real friend says to bear sufferings patiently, and praise God for His love and mercy.
You are doing a great job, but I sure hope the pain subsides!
Hang in there. Perhaps things will start to work in a positive way for your numerous conditions.
Trussell, I continue to pray as hard as I can.
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