Prayer Request

From: Truthful Kindness <truthfulkindness@sbcglobal.net>

My Request: PRAYER for healing or extra endurance:

(( For two years I have not been able to consistently attend any church or

synagogue, so you folks ARE my community, even tho I have not actually

posted here for many months. ))  Please don’t take the following as

complaints; it is meant as background info for prayer.

My babesia count (that’s the first tick-borne disease that we are attacking)

has continued to steadily decrease.  My specialist says there are few

babesia left (the smallest amount measurable) but those few are

well-entrenched & unless we kill them they will just start reproducing again

-with extra resistance.  My “natural-killer cells” have increased (up from 6

to 20, out of a possible 300, & I must have a minimum of 60 before I can

lower meds & count on the contribution of those natural killer cells to

fight these “bugs”).  I can’t complain too much since they’ve flourished

undiagnosed for over 30 yrs.

Daytime pain is tolerable but by afternoon/evening I’m not coping very well,

& hanging over the vomit bucket almost every night, in agony until whenever

I am able to go to sleep.  It is not unusual for pain to wake me and prevent

sleep for most of the night.  Some days my total food intake is an egg in

the morning, two teaspoons of cottage cheese for lunch, & a piece of fruit

with two 1″ gluten-free cookies for dinner -the crispiness of both seems to

help them stay down even tho it’s late in the day.  Yes, I am taking the

proper supplements, and have tried many herbal teas to help with the nausea.

Everything tastes like acidic metal, including my saliva and bottled water.

Before the doctor even suggested that we do this testing, & more than a year

before diagnosis, God made it very clear that I had some hard times ahead of

me, that I was “doing good”, and that my body is “perfect”.  It was also

clear that “perfect” is NOT perfect to work for me, but it IS perfect to

glorify Him.  And that’s a good thing, not a bad thing; I want to glorify

Him in any way possible!  Those were the most exciting moments of my entire

life -but I had no idea how much I would need the clear message &

encouragement in the coming years.  (Because even tho it doesn’t feel like I

am DOING anything except doing a wonderful job of being very sick for a very

very long time without committing suicide — obviously my body must be

somehow glorifying Him or He would not have said that.)

But now I’m getting really really tired.  Please … I don’t need “fixed”.

I don’t need suggestions (I’m sure I’ve heard them all) or even very much

encouraging email or phone contact (I don’t have the energy to read it & am

not answering the phone).  I need two or more gathered together, agreeing

with my request for healing or extra endurance!  Please don’t minimize this

contribution but please please take the time to follow-thru; it is not the

minimal but the GREATEST power we have, and that is my request.  (And if a

particular time can be arranged, then I can ask other people for prayer at

the same time.)

-Shalom

-Truthful L Kindness & Blessing, the wheelchair Service Dog