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Well I realized today that I have not been able to talk to most of you to tell you what is up with me and to ask for prayer. I have been sick for many months now and after being diagnosised; I have realized that I have probably been running around with major infection in my colon for at least a good year. About three weeks ago, I was diagnosised with Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis. Basically, it is pockets in your colon that get food, bowel, and such caught in them and then grow bacteria and then get inflamed and infected causing severe abdominal pain, constipation, or diarrhea. After several months of straight diarhea, I had a break about a week ago for about a week while I was on the previous antibiotics, but now I am back to severe diarrhea as of last night and today. After being of a massive round of antibiotics for two weeks, I started getting sicker and sicker again until I was back to being bed ridden this weekended and in a lot of pain and nauseated every time I ate. I got in to see my gastroenterologist Monday afternoon. She said something about the same thing Eric said to me when I had a pain break down on Friday because I had done too much. She said, "You have been sick for a really long time; it is going to take a long time to get you well." I guess that is kind of what God has been telling me all along. I am trying desperately to get to work as much as I can because I do not have a lot of leave time left, so that is my priority. It is pretty much all I can do must of the time. I am pretty weak and fatigued a lot and I am usually laying in bed trying to not over do it so that I am not in too much pain. I primary care doctor had given me vicodin, but I have really used it because it messes up with my intestines and sometimes makes me feel worse. My gastro said to avoid it. She said that the only thing I can really take right now is tylenol because anything else will upset my stomach more and anything narcotic will cause more problems in my colon. I told her that the tylenol does not really do anything, and she smiled and nodded and said it is the only thing I can really use. I have been put on another round of antibiotics - augmentin at 500mg three times a day for two weeks and then she wants me on 250mg twice a day for two months. She is just trying to get the pain and infection out of my colon. I am going to do an ultrasound to be sure that we are not missing anything in my ovaries, but she things that all the pain is colon related. She thinks that I might also have Irritable Bowel Syndrome which I would really like to have prayers that I do not have it. It means a lot of diet changes if I do which I have already made because I can hardly eat anything, but I would like to eat like a normal person once again. This is very tentative and we really will not know anything for sure until the infection gets taken care of. I would ask for prayer to have the strength to get through each day and as much work as I can, and to have the strength to deal with the pain of the illness and the side affects of the massive doses of antibiotics. I know I have missed a lot of church and I lot of time with people, and I am not sure what my future days will look like. God has been pretty vocal with me these last few months that He is going to give me my daily bread and that is all, no more, no less. And that is what He is doing, all over my life. With time, energy, finances, strength, I have enough to get through the next hours and moments. I have His strength for the day. I would ask for prayer for me to be restful and content in that and not to try to much my body ahead before it is time. As I do that and then I have a massive breakdown from the pain and fatigue that I have been pushing away all day. Thank you. |
