...the Journey...

...Healing through prayer...

OK so i write or try to write these update/prayer letters once a month. So here is this months. I just sent alittle one to ppl through e-mail. I plan on writing a larger more updated one tommrow. where when finished i will be pasteing it on the website for you to read but as for now here is this one.


Monday-
Hey everyone,
Thought that I would just send an updating e-mail so everyone kindda knows what is happening and how to pray for me if they would like too in regards to my health. So as of june i was begining to not feel my usual self. I then in July began to see odd things when i went to the bathroom. It then got so bad that i couldnt eat anything with out it coming out of me the next 30 mins or less. I couldnt hold food in me and i surly couldnt not go to the bathroom less than 5 times a day. Thats when i couldnt take it amymore and i went to the doctors and had a number of tests done. So i went about a week as they processed th tests and no negitive results so i was back into the doctors and that is when i got told that i had soemthing more serious and i needed to see a Gastoloagist ( a doctor that specializes in stomachs and bowel stuff). Within the nest could days i was in to see him and then with in the week i was in to have a scope done. At this point we didnt know what it was and there was a fear that it could be cancer of my bowel. But after the scope the doctor told me that i have a disease called Ulcertive Colitis. Ulcerative colitis is a disease that causes inflammation and sores, called ulcers, in the lining of the large intestine. The inflammation usually occurs in the rectum and lower part of the colon, but it may affect the entire colon. The inflammation makes the colon empty frequently, causing diarrhea. Ulcers form in places where the inflammation has killed the cells lining the colon; the ulcers bleed and produce pus.Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the general name for diseases that cause inflammation in the small intestine and colon. I got this info from http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/colitis/#top
After all this Here is the bad news it is not cure-able. They have not found anything to fully cure it. There are drugs however to weaken the symptoms and the flare ups. Hence the reason for me being on 11 pills at one time for a couple weeks. Now i am only taking 7 pills. And for a while there i was doing good. But for the past two days I have been expereinceing alot of pain and tenderness...and the emptying for the bowel after i eat at all times. So eating for the past couple of days has been hard and i am at the point were i dont want to eat anything cause i think it will make it better..but realistically i know it wont so i eat small meals a couple times a day of very nutural foods. So I ask for your prayers as i go thourgh another difficult time of me not being so healthy. Pray that as i go to the doctors again on thursday that i would be able to get answers and help and some how calm this flare up down again. Pray that i will be able to keep a job with this condition. Even as i wrtie this my stomach is hurting and cramping and i am running a fever. But looking on the positive side of things it is not cancer and i have a very powerful God who can heal me. God can over come anything, and through him all things are possible. So i press on through the rough days longing to know him better and build his kingdom.
God bless you all and once again thanks for being a huge support to me.

Friday-

I thought i would send you an update on how the doctors appointment went. Well it was a good one if you can even think that going to the doctors is good. But i am only on 9 meds of this drug that has no side effects (WHOOT WHOOT!!!). I only have to be on 9 when i am not feeling well but when i begin to feel better i can go down to 4 but i have to stay with 4 for a while even if i am feeling good. I also got sent to get more blood taken from me. It was a big issue b/c my veins are hard to find and also a pain in the butt when i need to give blood. So my doctors office normally does it but they couldnt do it. But through that process i had four needles stuck into my arms and they are all every brused and sore now. So i went to the MSD lab and they found my vein and took my blood and i should know in a about a week what my body needs more of or less of. The hardest or worse part is when he pushes on my tummy. It was really sore that day but he had to do it anywase, so lets just say there was alot of pain and flinching. Anywase, keep me in your prayers and such. Thanks once again cause i know that it was through all your prayers and all your encouragements that helped me pull though into a good couple of days lately. actually i felt better the day after i sent the e-mail after that week of feeling like crap. So thanks.

posted by Sojourner @ 7:18 AM