Thursday, December 21, 2017

prayer request

I have a couple of prayer requests to share. Tomorrow I am scheduled for an MRI and an EEG  due to memory loss and I hate both of them. The sound of an MRI machine sets my nervous system off and causes involuntary movements once that happens it is hard to be still for the EEG. Both of them are going to be very long tests too and I need accurate results. There is a small piece of the back of my brain that is basically dead tissue from the lack of oxygen when I was in a coma in high school and we are making sure that is stable and checking for seizure activity.

**if the results of these tests are normal then I will be admitted to the hospital for a week long video monitoring EEG just in case we are missing small signs. obviously I would be thrilled to do that one.**

Also, due to Christmas I will be missing infusions, I will not get another one until Tuesday which is a huge stretch and I do not know how my body will react to that.

I have a lot of anxiety about all of this stuff going on and could use prayers for peace and strength to keep it together.

Monday, December 18, 2017

update

 I feel like my head is spinning whenever I go to update this thing. Sometimes I feel like I am just stumbling through everyday life in a haze. A song came on the radio the other day that gave me a reality check to digest. . Here is some of the lyrics you can youtube if you want to hear it all.



I need to hear You now
I need to know it's You
I'm standing on Your promises
I know Your Word is true
You're bigger than what I see
It's You in exchange for me
'Cause even the impossible can be reality
 I wanna cling to You Jesus
 hanging on your every breath

So let Your kingdom come
And let Your will be done
Here on the earth
Just like it is in heaven
God let Your kingdom come
Help my unbelief God
Jesus I believe - big daddy weave jesus I believe


Jesus is big enough to handle all of my life.

The life I always imagined with all of my hopes and dreams fulfilled does not look like this. Turning 26 set off my depression and began my haze of discontentment. I know I don't need any of that to be happy but I struggle with putting my life and my purpose in God's hands. I don't know why God is allowing me to go through all of this pain with what feels like one blow after the next but He is and He is God and His plan will always be for my good and His glory even though to me it feels like it's falling apart.

Nothing falls apart in the hands of the one who created you. With God even the impossible can be reality. The impossible feeling I have when I begin to feel like I am hopeless and I will never get better and life sucks is not real. It's a real feeling but not a fact, Satan is really good at getting us to blend the two of those. Once blended they often lead to despair because I have lost my focus on facts. The fact is I can only find complete happiness and contentment in Jesus. I will not find it in a certain doctor, a certain treatment, a family of my own or even in complete healing. If God healed me right now I can say in honesty I would still be unhappy and discontent. Help my unbelief God. Help me believe you are my life, my all, everything I could ever dream of, every bit of my happiness, and my hope. All I could ever imagine. Help me.