Good Saturday to you all on this beautiful Memorial Day weekend here in northern Iowa. The weather has been so nice this past week with perfect levels of humidity, sunshine, and temps. Our resident Wren is so happy and shares her songs with us daily! The squirrels and chippies are scurrying around and there is one pesky coyote we think comes to do his "business" at the foot of our large tree in the backyard. What is up with that? Joel has been out trimming the lilac bushes, especially after the neighbor trimmed his...both intertwine. He has gotten a lot of riding in. We have been doing some porch sitting at night which is great since the mosquitoes have not come out yet.
Speaking of porch sitting, I wanted to share some of what happened this past Tuesday night during our porch sitting. I decided to get on Facebook to scroll through and as I did I saw a live stream of a woman named Julie Meyer who lives in CA and is part of a healing ministry and also has her own singing the psalms ministry. She has put the Psalms to music and it is always so soothing. I have only listened to her 3 times in the past couple of years but decided to go ahead and listen. As you log on she might ask where you are from and like others I responded, mine with "Renee from Iowa". About 40 minutes later I went into the house to get things closed up and put my phone down. I was going to click off but decided to keep listening. All of a sudden she said, "there are a couple people I want to prophesy over"....and one was "Renee from Iowa". I grabbed my phone and went outside so Joel could hear. She began speaking over me what she heard God saying and it was so spot on that Joel and I were both deeply moved by it. She mentioned that God saw me "in the 4 walls of my house" ( I had just told Joel I hardly ever get to leave the walls of my house) and she said that God was pleased with me. That I have been stellar in handling all that has come my way." There were other things like her saying "You got this"! (That plaque sits on my coffee table) and that "God is helping you"....(Lately when I go to bed my prayer is "Jesus I need your help". I won't share all the words given but they moved me from a place of discouragement to hope. There are so many ways God speaks to us but this was one of the most unique for me .....through the words of a woman in CA whom I have never met and have no contact with. But God..............God blessed us with great words of encouragement thro her.
Speaking of encouragement, Thursday we headed to Mayo for my check up with the eye surgeon and then an appointment with the Lymphedema clinic. The surgeon told me my eye is healed well and I can move forward with the fitting for a prothesis. She said the pain I am having is nerve pain she thought and I needed to see a headache neurologist. She did want to give me to injections right below my eyebrow to see if they would help the pain. So that happened and then she said, it takes awhile to get into neurology but we'll get an appointment set up. As we stood with the clerk making appointments she also said it would take a while.....Joel was quietly praying I could see someone that day knowing it would have to be a God thing. The clerk said, "Well, this never happens. Must have been a cancellation. There is a 3 pm today open with Dr. R. " We took it! Thank you God! So after my Lymphedema appointment we headed to Mayo cafeteria for lunch....Joel dozed in a chair while I filled out paperwork and we headed to the neurologist. When she walked into the room she said, "Well, I spent two hours last night preparing for this appointment but you are not who I thought would be here...I don't know you! So lets get started!!" She spent an hour and a half with me, asking a lot of questions, typing the whole time as she listened intently to what I had to say. Bottom line is, the large nerve behind the eye is damaged. and the reasons o number are really unimportant. That nerve has 3 pathways that go through the eye and eyebrow, forehead, and top of head where I am having all the pain. The nerve blocks will temporary help more than likely, BUT I will need ongoing medication for this according to the doctor.
So, the good news is we have a cause for the pain, and the bad news is we have a cause for the pain. We have some answers, but the challenge remains. The shots helped a little so far. I get two more next week. Of course they want tests just in case............with the cancers I have had it is always just in case.......None sound fun at all, but if it helps, it helps. We are still digesting all of this BUT we stand solid on what our faith tells us and the words a woman far away in CA shared from our God who is never far away. We believe healing will come. God is not only helping me as Julie Meyer said, but He is sending breakthrough and healing me.
Interesting note.......I am not sure how far we walked Thursday at Mayo....but there was a lot of walking back and forth to different buildings and the last one was for labs which was a 2 block walk! We closed down Mayo I think ....after arriving at 8:30 am after a 1 hour 40 minute drive from Iowa, then we left there at 6:10 pm. stopped quickly at Trader Joe's for supplies, getting home around 8:30. It was a very long but informative day.....And we were so blessed to see God in the midst of it all!!!!!!! We felt like we learned so much from the neurologist and knowledge is power~
So grateful today for everything I wrote about above. Grateful for the prayers of so many....for the love of family and friends. For how much our God loves us all. For texts, phone calls, and emails. And............so much more.
Enjoy your weekend!
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