Joining in prayer for all these requests.
An update on my daughter Christina: she has been home from the hospital for about 3 weeks now but is still not eating or drinking anything near enough. She ate about a teaspoon of mashed potatoes on Saturday, that was pretty much all she ate all week. She is drinking maybe 1 or 2 oz of gatorade a day if I stand over her and make her. We went back to the pediatician today and he wants her to see the neurologist again but says if I can't get her an appointment this week he wll go ahead and hospitalize her again. I wish he would just go ahead and do it, I don't want to wait till she is throwing up blood again. She couldn't even take Communion this Sunday because she was afraid she would throw up if she tried to swallow it.
This is a little 10 year old girl. The doctor said she is too young for anorexia, and I don't know if that would apply, as she wants to eat, but has worked herself up into a phobia now. She has lost 20 pounds in the last month. Your continued prayers are very much appreciated.
That's one of the problems with long fasting...the signals from the brain that award you with feeling good about eating get twisted...and start to work backwards. And mixed with a phobic reaction makes it worse. I hope they can get her help. I have had brief bouts of it - at times my stomach was so wretched the only things I could handle were miso and plain yogurt mixed with sauerkraut [don't ask me why I could eat that and not other things. I still don't know]
Lord, be with this child...