thanks to all.......

From: kann (stew@cowtown.net)
Wed Oct 30 19:28:37 2002


Thanks, especially to Cindy for the extra sweet, encouraging email. I read the posts every evening. LOTS OF EMAILS!! It is worth it though--this is such a great group of people. Just wish it was a better subject like "brownie addicts" or something! We could just discuss recipes, how many we've eaten, nuts or no nuts.....you get the idea. Unfortunately we are tied (no pun intended) together because of a horrible condition. I gave up years ago on doctors helping my daughter. I had prayed for years, each time we went to a new one, "God give him/her wisdom to find out what is wrong"...........2 years ago I realized that we had built a "patient-nut case file" unknowingly. The more doctors we went to, the bigger her file became and the more the doctors labeled her a "depressed--hypocondriac". Every doctor would ignore what we were saying and tell her, "you need an antidepressant". It got to the point that you want to smack them--we lost it with a few.....Thank goodness for a doctor in Temple Texas at the "renowned" Scott & White facility. He looked over the top of his glasses at my daughter and said, "You need an antidepressant"...this was after spending less than 5 minutes with her---oh, but he had that "file". When we left, (2 1/2 hr. drive for that diagnosis), my daughter was so angry and said, "I give up, no one can help me." A PATIENT cannnot understand WHY a doctor (especially at THAT facility) won't get down to business and find out the problem!! That doctor changed my prayer life. From that day on, I began praying, "God give ME wisdom to find out what is wrong with her". It was the same year (2001) when I came across the endometriosis web site. She had had, (repeated) endoscopes, upper/lower gi's, colonscopies, sonograms, etc....but not one doctor had ever mentioned a lap!! The last doc thinks all her problems are endo related and does not believe she has Crohn's. (She has never had granulomas present in any biopsies. I just know ONE thing. I want my baby girl well. I want all of you out there well. I told my sister in an email yesterday that I just believe if I keep "kicking the mountain, at some point it has to fall over"......I DO believe that. Today I received an email from a friend I had not heard from in a long time--it was just one of those "forward" emails...she does not know Melissa has had surgery. The email was about God telling a man to Push a rock each day outside his home. The man faithfully did it each day, but the rock never budged. Satan began taunting the man and told him he'd never move the rock. The man, discouraged, told the Lord he was weary of it--he hadn't budged it, Satan was right. God told him, "I never said you would move it, I just told you to push it with all your might, and you have been faithful to do just that. Now, I will move the rock".......Isn't that tremendous?? How great is our God!! I am the energy for my daughter. She is too worn out to search for an answer. Sick people need cheerleaders. I hope I can be that to this group and as I kick for her and search for her, let me assure you, I am kicking and searching for you all also. There is hope. His name is Jesus. I am not perfect by any means. I screw up quite often. However, I believe God is the answer and he knows me inside out (better than I know myself). I believe with all my heart He will see us through this nightmare that never seems to end. Let's all push this mountain together.

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Karen S.

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