I have a trip to Boston tomorrow to see the doctors again about this mast cell disorder.
The weather here is not great, we’re getting a lot of lake-effect snow.
Please pray for safety traveling and that if the Lord is not going to heal me at the moment, that He’d give the doctor’s wisdom in how to deal with this.
I still am not able to eat more than chicken and oats and only occasionally small amounts of lamb, venison, blueberries red grapes and mushrooms.
It seems like some of the supplements I’ve been taking are starting to affect me, including unfortunately, the Singulair. Likely there’s some inert ingredient which is causing the problem.
It is especially hard when I have to be in situations where there is a lot of food and everyone else is having a great time (heartlessly) eating and enjoying their food. I was a a baby shower recently that showed me how tough it is. Usually I avoid situations like that but sometimes it can’t be helped and it’s tough trying to decline the offers of food without having to explain it over and over again.
Thanks so much for your prayers. They mean more to me than I can say and they have been getting me through this. Please continue to also pray for my spiritual life. As is typical, dealing with a chronic somewhat debilitating condition that one is not being healed from is sometimes a challenge spiritually. And I do think there is a spiritual component to all this.
God’s blessings on all of you this Christmas season. May He reward you for your faithfulness in prayer.
Lifting up prayers for strength during this eating season FRiend : / as well as prayers for a safe and PRODUCTIVE trip to Boston.
May God bless.
Tatt
Praying the Boston Dr.s will stay the course and resolve this problem very soon...and the Lord will sustain your determination to see this thru as you go.
Am very sorry this is something you have carried so long and the aggrivations that there seemingly are no concrete answers to correct this. So may the Lord truly give these Dr’s insight they might normally not consider and determine a way in which will truly ease this load you carry.
Safe journey as well Metmom...when in doubt..drive slow!
Our prayers are with you, metmom.
Prayers continue.
Blessings and healing to you.
Prayers up for your safe travels and for the medical team to be able to identify and cure your food/allergy ailment.
Prayers continue for your healing.
Prayers up!
PRAYERS AND BIG HUGS.
LUB SIS.
Thank you for the update, metmom. I will pray for you.
A few years ago when I was deathly ill for about a year with a mysterious illness the docs could not diagnose, I was sitting outside vomiting bile on the ground, utterly dehydrated, DH was gone working, and I felt I could just lie down on the ground and die.
When I got to low points like that, I would pray “Dear Lord, what is the lesson You want me to learn now?” and generally the answer would come into my heart right away.
The answer that day was “Die before dying”. I knew that to mean “Die to my own will, my own plans, my own egocentric desires etc”. To depend completely on Him, whether the outcome was “good” or “bad” in the standard of worldly enjoyment or whatever.
Suffering doesn’t mean God isn’t protecting you.
Lifting prayers for a safe trip and that the doctors will be able to offer you some remedy for this very difficult situation you are in. God bless you metmom.
Daniel 3:14-1814Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
You hang in there girl; for your FRiends are going to do more than just sit and stare at you for days!!
Prayers for your safe travel, and that the doctors will be able to figure out, and correct, your eating problems.
You have a lot on your plate. I cannot even remotely imagine.
Here are some thoughts, so take them in the loving spirit they are intended:
1. First, obviously when the body is suffering (in pain, etc.,) so much of our energy goes to battle that component that we do not have much left with coping mechanisms so we can get depressed, cranky, etc. (gee, how do I know all this? ; )
2. Don’t think of the others as heartless. It would be like a person using their eyes to walk about the room while you are sitting there as a blind person. They have no idea how hard it is and, like you said, parties are about food. You need to make a choice - go and suffer (which you do) or just stay home (and that’s a form of suffering as well).
3. I have recently had to help myself with this last one. Do not build an altar to your suffering. I am not saying that you did (or are) but God recently showed me that I was doing that very thing about a struggle I was going through. Be careful. It is easy to do when the pain and suffering are too much to bear.
Child of God, you know HE loves you. I have just lifted you up in prayer to Him again. I truly pray you will be healed. Keep us posted on your progress so that we may continue to lift you up.
Meanwhile, with all that you go through, you are blessing many of us with your upbeat attitude, in spite of your trials. And remember that we are closest to our Lord when we suffer for he himself was the suffering servant. And please don’t think I like to suffer, because I don’t.
Cheering and praying for YOU!
I have a friend who having completed Chemo for her cancer will live for the rest of her life taking the majority of fluid and food through an I.V.
Here insides were destroyed but she is alive.
It sucks but she is a very energetic woman and generally happy. Even though her boss was that fake Indian at Boulder University.
She carries gluten free popcorn and occasionally munches on it and some other things.
Might this be a sucky solution for you?
Please be safe and prayers for you.
Safe travel, good prognoses, the a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Prayers up
Rest. Wait upon the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, upon the Lord. (from the Psalms) Be still and know that He is God.
(((((Sending Heartfelt Prayers)))))
in my prayers.