Health Talk
Sometimes when we struggle with our health we think we are the only ones. I know that in my 24+ year struggle with Rheumatoid Arthritis I have found myself pulling away from others because I feel sick or in pain. Or I will not share with others because I'm concerned that they will think all I ever do is complain. Or simply I don't know if people will understand. For instance, when I say rheumatoid arthritis someone will invariably say "oh my sister has arthritis and she has this thing or that thing happen." Well, it's not the same thing at all. Rheumatoid Arthritis is debilitating; it robs me of my desires to hike and bike and sit in a movie theater for extended periods. I even bought my first wheelchair this past week. I was just diagnosed with interstitial lung disease at National Jewish Research Center in Denver and that disease is part of the struggle of having an autoimmune disease. Interstitial lung disease is also known as rheumatoid lung disease.
Is there anyone out there who struggles with their health and would like to start dialoguing about it? God loves us sickees, too. After all, he is the Great Physician.
If you are ill, or in pain, or both, or you know someone who is, don't go through it alone. There are lots of us out there. And we can hold each other up in prayer, in discussion, in thoughts, in tears, or in laughter.
Is there anyone out there who struggles with their health and would like to start dialoguing about it? God loves us sickees, too. After all, he is the Great Physician.
If you are ill, or in pain, or both, or you know someone who is, don't go through it alone. There are lots of us out there. And we can hold each other up in prayer, in discussion, in thoughts, in tears, or in laughter.
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Permalink Reply by Hazel Wesson-Peterson on -
Hi, Teri: sorry it's taken me so long to respond to you. Life gets in the way sometimes, I am sorry to say, even with the best of intentions. It really aggravates me when I read these kinds of things because I know that it doesn't have to be this way. I don't know about you, but I keep on going...not matter what. When I first got so terribly ill back in the mid-1980s I was in bed for about 6 months, lost custody of my son to his dad who lived in another state from where I lived, I lost my home and my job. No insurance. IT WAS THE PITS! I promised myself that if I ever got out of that bed I wouldn't go back. I lived in a women's shelter for about 9 months, I guess, and they recognized that I wasn't the typical homeless person and put me to work as assistant house mother. They got me assistance from the State of Arkansas; I went to school, got a job (nurse), got a home and got my son back. It took a LONGGGGGGG time to get there, but all through it God was faithful and true to his word and NEVER allowed me to suffer more than I was capable of taking. SO when things get rough (and right now they are both physically and emotionally) I remember those days and God's faithfulness. I KNOW, that I KNOW, that I KNOW HE IS FAITHFUL and good and will comfort you in those times when you feel like you've had enough, or feel so bad you just don't want to get out of bed, or feel so bad that walking across the room is a struggle. HANG IN THERE! Our God is greater than these earthly problems we all have to deal with!
Teri Purcell said:Hazel:
I also suffer from chronic illness (fibromyalgia and moderate-severe asthma). I know what it's like to want to do things but be unable to do them. It really bothers me that I can't do active things with my children like I would like to do. Sometimes the basics of day-to-day living are a struggle. I don't understand why God chooses to let me be sick, and I probably never will understand it. I just need to accept it and move on.
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Permalink Reply by Hazel Wesson-Peterson on
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Yesterday I went back to National Jewish for test results and office visits with my doctors. I am scheduled for a bronchoscopy to take some lung biopsies in a couple of weeks as a result of those visits. I feel very humbled that God would bless me with such caring physicians. I know he owns the cattle on a thousand hills, but to know, he would take the time to care enough about me to give me these wonderful men, is truly amazing to me. I'll keep all posted on what is happening with that.
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Permalink Reply by Hazel Wesson-Peterson on
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I am in the investigative stage and doing research for a book that is for now being called "The Blessing of Pain". If you have a story you might think interesting or contain a great life lesson, or one that will bring glory to the Kingdom, please share it for possible usage. No worries! Only pseudo names and locations will be used. Oh..and by the way...by pain I mean physical, spiritual, emotion, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Hazel Wesson-Peterson on
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It's been awhile since I wrote on this forum, but I have something additional that I am dealing with now. A week and a half ago I went to National Jewish again for a bronchoscopy (bilateral lung biopsies). Although I don't have cancer, I have interstitial lung disease, a problem from the R.A. and it appears that the inflammation has gotten worse. It is progressive and I have really been feeling it lately. There are no nerves or nerve endings in the lungs; however, inflammation can lead a person to have feelings of heaviness and/or shortness of breath. I have both along with a feeling of fullness which causes me to not be able to eat an entire meal at one sitting. I'm hungry...just always feel like my chest is going to explode.
But God is in control and has given me wonderful physicians. My husband and I decided to close our store in Woodland Park, because I am simply not able to do it anymore. I can't be gone from home the 12 hours a day it requires of me.
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