It’s Friday, so please remember to pray for Mumsee, Mike, and the Nestlings.
Anyone else?
Psalm 84
¹How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Continual prayers for your girl 6Arrows…it is so hard to see our children hurting…praying for your heart as well….
If ya’ll could remember me in your prayers today I would so cherish that…there is a situation concerning my Mother that has me fighting anger, hurt and confusion….I need to know what is true and I am asking our Lord to reveal His truth in the matter. She is in good health for 86yrs old and there are things being said amongst nephew/niece that portrays my older sister and I as manipulative and greedy daughters….we being the two of the three daughters who are trying to help out my Mother since my Dad’s death….it’s such a mess and I want no part of it….
I’ll be praying for that situation, NancyJill. So sorry you’re being put through negativity like that.
Thank you, everyone, for your prayers for 6th Arrow (and for me, too — thank you, NancyJill — you’re right, it is hard to see our children hurting, and with two of them sick enough to need urgent care visits this month, it’s certainly worn me out emotionally, more than usual).
Youngest has early disseminated Lyme’s Disease. It spread quickly. Multiple bull’s-eye rashes, and what looks like another red ring starting around her right eye. Please pray that the antibiotics begin to work quickly, and that she does not experience vision problems or other eye involvement, or heart, joint or neurological issues. So far, none of those problems has manifested.
Please also pray that she does not experience co-infection (multiple tick-borne illnesses simultaneously, which can really complicate matters), as it appears that the tick I found embedded in her skin this morning was probably the second tick to bite her recently, which could be carrying a different illness. We never saw the tick that probably caused what is now the disseminated case, and the one I found today was tucked up and under her little butt cheek.
Nasty thing. The nymphs are as tiny as poppy seeds before they feed, and they go where it’s just about impossible to find them. This one was plenty engorged with blood, so it had been in there long enough to transmit disease if it’s a carrier.
She’ll be on doxycycline for 14 days, and we follow up 13 days from today in Family Medicine.
Continued prayers are also appreciated regarding the “potentially serious” request I made yesterday here on her behalf. Disseminated Lyme’s is potentially serious, too, and that wasn’t even what I was requesting prayer for! (Things are somewhat improved on that first front, and the NP we saw today knows about that other situation, and it is not as much of a concern now as it once was.)
Understanding your hurt, NancyJill. I still have daily prayer over a similar situation. How we have to remind ourselves that it is what God KNOWS that is of upmost importance! Only He knows our hearts. Praying for you wisdom and peace in your situation.
Oh, how scary 6 arrows, prayers — and yes, glad it was caught early.
Pre-Lyme Disease days I guess, I remember getting a tick when I was probably only 6 or 7 years old — we’d driven up to the mountains that day to tromp around and I saw this black spot on my chest later that night before going to bed & asked my mom about it.
Next thing I knew the matches came out, which horrified me and no doubt annoyed the tick something awful — and it didn’t work. To the doctor’s office the next day.
And, of course, ticks are an ongoing concern for dogs — last one latched on to my previous dog after a walk on one of the nearby horse trails. Such nasty bugs. 😦 😦
Anyway, prayers that those antibiotics do a fast and thorough job and there are no complications!
Praying 6 Arrows and very glad it was caught so soon. So, doxycycline is the antibiotic that is used against Lyme’s. I had wondered what it was. It makes sense that it would used against the parasitic bacteria. I took it to prevent malaria, and it proved effective (I was certainly bitten by mosquitos and I never got malaria).
Roscuro, doxycycline is the most commonly prescribed antibiotic for Lyme’s in people ages 8 and above, as far as I know. (Around here, anyway.) Before that age, amoxicillin is used, as doxycycline damages tooth enamel. My daughter is a couple months away from turning nine, and the NP asked if she had permanent teeth in her mouth, which she did. Apparently doxycycline causes problems down the line with the permanent teeth only when a child has not had any erupt yet.
Amoxicillin has a higher fail rate in treating Lyme’s, and doxycycline is pretty effective, so I’m very thankful she’s old enough to take doxycycline, so there’s a better chance of kicking this infection.
Our first case of Lyme’s in our family was with 3rd Arrow, and unfortunately, we knew nothing about that disease at the time. Plus, she never got a rash (some people don’t), so it went untreated for a long time. It wasn’t until, we suspect, many months later, when she had fluid on the knee and joint pain, that our family practitioner at the time figured out what had probably happened. Testing of the fluid showed infection with the Lyme spirochete. She was still too young for doxycycline at that point, and the amoxicillin she was prescribed wasn’t entirely effective, we later learned. Two and a half years later, Lyme’s recurred (no new tick bite), and when she had a second recurrence another two and a half years after that, she needed intravenous antibiotics to wipe it all out. Twenty-one days of Rocephin at $166 a day, delivered via a PICC line while at home. Not a favorite memory. 😦
That last was when she was seven years old, and she is now 19 and has had, thank God, no more recurrences. (Other than a weird skin rash in her early teens, I think, that turned out to be a manifestation of a sort of tick-borne illness that has only been seen in Europe. Go figure. None of us has ever been there. In fact, her case was only one of two in the U.S. that had ever been documented at that time, and the other person had traveled in Europe prior to his/her case. Very strange to be told that. The dermatologist said it was a lab technician who figured out what her skin specimen was showing.)
Anyway, you’d think with our family history of Lyme’s (only 1st and 2nd Arrows have never had it — the rest of the kids, and both hubby and I, have), this with 6th Arrow wouldn’t have gotten past us like it did, but it did. May, June and October are pretty common Lyme months, and with her sisters problems with the costochondritis this month, and other health issues, I let my guard down, and in sneaks that tick in July.
Thank you all again for your prayers. I appreciate them so much.
My brother found a tick yesterday after he came inside. He put on a lot of bug repellent before going out to mow today. I hope he has not missed finding one. That can be a terrible chronic disease. I know a young man my son’s age who has basically been disabled by it.
There is, again, much to pray about here. Thankfully we are all believers who know God is working things out in His good ways even when things don’t seem to change for a long time.
Janice, I hope, too, that your brother found all the ticks there were to be found on him!
Donna, I remember the match-to-ticks trick from my childhood, also. Talk about freezing like a statue with the match advancing toward one’s skin! Yikes.
A prayer request for a friend’s daughter. The young lady, a former piano student of mine from years ago whom I mentioned a few weeks ago, is leaving for Europe tomorrow to present her research findings at the YHIP Conference (Yiddish Historically Informed Performance). Prayers for safety while there and in travels to and from.
Wandering Views 
New developments overnight with youngest. Back to urgent care…
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Praying for your little one, 6 Arrows.
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Praying, 6Arrows.
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Continual prayers for your girl 6Arrows…it is so hard to see our children hurting…praying for your heart as well….
If ya’ll could remember me in your prayers today I would so cherish that…there is a situation concerning my Mother that has me fighting anger, hurt and confusion….I need to know what is true and I am asking our Lord to reveal His truth in the matter. She is in good health for 86yrs old and there are things being said amongst nephew/niece that portrays my older sister and I as manipulative and greedy daughters….we being the two of the three daughters who are trying to help out my Mother since my Dad’s death….it’s such a mess and I want no part of it….
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I’ll be praying for that situation, NancyJill. So sorry you’re being put through negativity like that.
Thank you, everyone, for your prayers for 6th Arrow (and for me, too — thank you, NancyJill — you’re right, it is hard to see our children hurting, and with two of them sick enough to need urgent care visits this month, it’s certainly worn me out emotionally, more than usual).
Youngest has early disseminated Lyme’s Disease. It spread quickly. Multiple bull’s-eye rashes, and what looks like another red ring starting around her right eye. Please pray that the antibiotics begin to work quickly, and that she does not experience vision problems or other eye involvement, or heart, joint or neurological issues. So far, none of those problems has manifested.
Please also pray that she does not experience co-infection (multiple tick-borne illnesses simultaneously, which can really complicate matters), as it appears that the tick I found embedded in her skin this morning was probably the second tick to bite her recently, which could be carrying a different illness. We never saw the tick that probably caused what is now the disseminated case, and the one I found today was tucked up and under her little butt cheek.
Nasty thing. The nymphs are as tiny as poppy seeds before they feed, and they go where it’s just about impossible to find them. This one was plenty engorged with blood, so it had been in there long enough to transmit disease if it’s a carrier.
She’ll be on doxycycline for 14 days, and we follow up 13 days from today in Family Medicine.
Continued prayers are also appreciated regarding the “potentially serious” request I made yesterday here on her behalf. Disseminated Lyme’s is potentially serious, too, and that wasn’t even what I was requesting prayer for! (Things are somewhat improved on that first front, and the NP we saw today knows about that other situation, and it is not as much of a concern now as it once was.)
Thank you all so much for praying.
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Thanks be to God it was found early; I know too much about Lyme’s disease. 😦
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Understanding your hurt, NancyJill. I still have daily prayer over a similar situation. How we have to remind ourselves that it is what God KNOWS that is of upmost importance! Only He knows our hearts. Praying for you wisdom and peace in your situation.
Also, praying for you and yours, 6.
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Oh, how scary 6 arrows, prayers — and yes, glad it was caught early.
Pre-Lyme Disease days I guess, I remember getting a tick when I was probably only 6 or 7 years old — we’d driven up to the mountains that day to tromp around and I saw this black spot on my chest later that night before going to bed & asked my mom about it.
Next thing I knew the matches came out, which horrified me and no doubt annoyed the tick something awful — and it didn’t work. To the doctor’s office the next day.
And, of course, ticks are an ongoing concern for dogs — last one latched on to my previous dog after a walk on one of the nearby horse trails. Such nasty bugs. 😦 😦
Anyway, prayers that those antibiotics do a fast and thorough job and there are no complications!
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Praying 6 Arrows and very glad it was caught so soon. So, doxycycline is the antibiotic that is used against Lyme’s. I had wondered what it was. It makes sense that it would used against the parasitic bacteria. I took it to prevent malaria, and it proved effective (I was certainly bitten by mosquitos and I never got malaria).
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Praying for the above needs.
Asking prayer for my brother John who has been out of work for 3 months.
Praying for Mumsee’s family today. How is 14 year old?
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Prayers for your brother, RKessler.
Roscuro, doxycycline is the most commonly prescribed antibiotic for Lyme’s in people ages 8 and above, as far as I know. (Around here, anyway.) Before that age, amoxicillin is used, as doxycycline damages tooth enamel. My daughter is a couple months away from turning nine, and the NP asked if she had permanent teeth in her mouth, which she did. Apparently doxycycline causes problems down the line with the permanent teeth only when a child has not had any erupt yet.
Amoxicillin has a higher fail rate in treating Lyme’s, and doxycycline is pretty effective, so I’m very thankful she’s old enough to take doxycycline, so there’s a better chance of kicking this infection.
Our first case of Lyme’s in our family was with 3rd Arrow, and unfortunately, we knew nothing about that disease at the time. Plus, she never got a rash (some people don’t), so it went untreated for a long time. It wasn’t until, we suspect, many months later, when she had fluid on the knee and joint pain, that our family practitioner at the time figured out what had probably happened. Testing of the fluid showed infection with the Lyme spirochete. She was still too young for doxycycline at that point, and the amoxicillin she was prescribed wasn’t entirely effective, we later learned. Two and a half years later, Lyme’s recurred (no new tick bite), and when she had a second recurrence another two and a half years after that, she needed intravenous antibiotics to wipe it all out. Twenty-one days of Rocephin at $166 a day, delivered via a PICC line while at home. Not a favorite memory. 😦
That last was when she was seven years old, and she is now 19 and has had, thank God, no more recurrences. (Other than a weird skin rash in her early teens, I think, that turned out to be a manifestation of a sort of tick-borne illness that has only been seen in Europe. Go figure. None of us has ever been there. In fact, her case was only one of two in the U.S. that had ever been documented at that time, and the other person had traveled in Europe prior to his/her case. Very strange to be told that. The dermatologist said it was a lab technician who figured out what her skin specimen was showing.)
Anyway, you’d think with our family history of Lyme’s (only 1st and 2nd Arrows have never had it — the rest of the kids, and both hubby and I, have), this with 6th Arrow wouldn’t have gotten past us like it did, but it did. May, June and October are pretty common Lyme months, and with her sisters problems with the costochondritis this month, and other health issues, I let my guard down, and in sneaks that tick in July.
Thank you all again for your prayers. I appreciate them so much.
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Please pray for a legal matter for my family.
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6 I have tried to respond to you several times and tell you I am sorry this is happening.
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My brother found a tick yesterday after he came inside. He put on a lot of bug repellent before going out to mow today. I hope he has not missed finding one. That can be a terrible chronic disease. I know a young man my son’s age who has basically been disabled by it.
There is, again, much to pray about here. Thankfully we are all believers who know God is working things out in His good ways even when things don’t seem to change for a long time.
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Fourteen year old was teetering on the brink and has fallen over the edge. Again.
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Going to look at apartments for September. Wisdom in making choices.
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Praying, Yapamom, Mumsee and Roscuro.
Janice, I hope, too, that your brother found all the ticks there were to be found on him!
Donna, I remember the match-to-ticks trick from my childhood, also. Talk about freezing like a statue with the match advancing toward one’s skin! Yikes.
Kim, thank you.
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A prayer request for a friend’s daughter. The young lady, a former piano student of mine from years ago whom I mentioned a few weeks ago, is leaving for Europe tomorrow to present her research findings at the YHIP Conference (Yiddish Historically Informed Performance). Prayers for safety while there and in travels to and from.
Thanks.
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6th Arrow is still feverish and achy tonight, but she perked up a good deal after supper, after sleeping a lot of the day. Your prayers mean a lot.
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I went to bed early, so am up early. Praying for all the above requests….
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