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Prayer Requests 11-25-17

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Psalm 110

1 The Lord says to my lord:

“Sit at my right hand
    until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”

2 The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
    “Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
3 Your troops will be willing
    on your day of battle.
   Arrayed in holy splendor,
    your young men will come to you
    like dew from the morning’s womb.

4 The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
  “You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at your right hand;
    he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
    and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
7 He will drink from a brook along the way,
    and so he will lift his head high.

34 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 11-25-17”

  1. I awoke to a message from Navy Wife Friend. “L is not doing well at all. She is sleeping a lot, she can’t hold down food, or her pills. The chemo is doing terrible things to her body. She still has her fighting spirit”.

    I want to do something to help, but there is nothing I can do beyond what I have done. I was awake during the night praying for her. I was actually relieved this morning to find the above message and not a worse one. I prayed for peace for L. We, her friends, are selfish. We don’t want to let her go. I want her to have one more day surrounded by her friends and the people who love her. A day where she feels well enough to be her old self and entertain us with stories and conversation. I want her to be able to host “Son of Thanksgiving” where everyone brings their leftovers and whatever is left at the end of that meal is tossed. I want her to host her After Christmas Dinner for friends. I want her to enjoy Mardi Gras and attend all the Balls. I want her healthy. I am sure I am not the only one.

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  3. Already prayed for her this morning, Kim.

    I could use some prayers. My personal EMT is leaving for home in a few hours and spent some time yesterday monitoring me.

    We’re not sure what’s up, my vitals are all fine, but I’m having what I call “sways.” It happened yesterday when I got up; I went dizzy/light headed with what felt like my brain painlessly swaying back and forth before settling into place.

    I didn’t feel normal all day yesterday and did not take the hike–I was worried I’d have another “incident” while out on the trail and it would be challenging to get me out. So I stayed home, read, and then took a walk–with my phone, name, address and so forth in my pocket in case I had an incident.

    Nothing, but not as energetic as usual. Got through the day fine.

    When I got into bed, the sways began again when I rolled on \to my side. My daughter monitored me, saw nothing, recommended the ER, but since my vitals were fine and other than the swaying when I moved–only when I moved my head right or left–I chose to go to bed.

    They went on all night. I experimented for awhile this morning (while I was praying for everyone on here), and learned that if I keep my head facing the same plane as my shoulders, I don’t have swaying. I’m sitting up fine in my chair, but am being careful.

    I think we may go out to breakfast, put my daughter on her plane (locally) and then spend the day at the ER. She thinks I need a CAT scan. She’s probably right.

    I’m just not sure I want to get into all of this until Monday if it’s just a bit of dizziness.

    So you can pray for wisdom. But the medical teams will start working on me soon.

    I’m not worried. I’m more thankful than anything, however, that Biddy is done and launched. I have nothing absolutely pressing in my life at the moment. (Though I would like to take that interview Monday afternoon!)

    Thanks.

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  4. Praying Michelle.

    Could it be vertigo (which is very common and generally not anything to worry about, but very annoying)? It’s an inner ear issue.

    The room feels like it’s spinning (“dizzy”) and it typically occurs when you get up, turn over, or generally change positions. A feeling of light-headedness (where you feel like you’re going to faint) can be more serious. But vertigo is very common the older we get. I was plagued with it for about a year and a half several years ago and even checked in with the doctor about it. It eventually went away on its own.

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  5. Praying Michelle! I was thinking vertigo as well. After retirement, Paul experienced vertigo for about 6 months or so and has not experienced it since. Last month I was off balance just in the mornings upon getting out of bed…it felt as though the world was on a tilt and I was trying to keep upright….it lasted a couple weeks and now it would seem I have found my land legs! But it seems you are experiencing fatigue as well…I’d get it checked out…as we are praying! ♥️

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  6. I second, or third, DJ & Nancy Jill. It sounds like vertigo. I experienced extreme vertigo due to pain medication when I had an operation several years ago, but I’ve occasionally had milder episodes that are very much what you describe.

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  7. From WebMD:

    “Vertigo is a sensation of feeling off balance. If you have these dizzy spells, you might feel like you are spinning or that the world around you is spinning.”

    Symptoms of Vertigo

    Vertigo is often triggered by a change in the position of your head.

    People with vertigo typically describe it as feeling like they are:

    Spinning
    Tilting
    Swaying
    Unbalanced
    Pulled to one direction

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  10. Michelle, I would advise seeing a chiropractor before the ER. Sounds like your neck is out of place causing the vertigo. I cannot even use a pillow at all any more, and no turning my head to the right quickly, and absolutely, no up and down.

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  12. Vertigo. A good slap on the side of the head is recommended. At least that is what the doc gave my dad for a solution. To loosen the stuck calcium blocking the ear balance place. I am fairly certain there is a more technical medical explanation.

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  13. My neck doesn’t hurt at all, so I think we’re going to stop at urgent care on the way home from the local airport. Packing my bag with books.

    Just remembered the brand new one on the way home may have been lost in the fire. Sigh.

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  15. It’s scary because you immediately think “brain.” And do ask a doctor about it when you can get in, but it really sounds like it’s classic vertigo. If the room is spinning, vertigo — if instead you are blacking out and feeling light headed like you’re going to faint, it might be something more serious (or not). I read a few years ago that vertigo is one of the most frequent complaints doctors get from patients over 50.

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  16. I think otc travel sickness pills can help, but maybe there’s something else a pharmacist could recommend. They do have a prescription for it but I don’t think it’s usually prescribed unless you have a persistent and really unusual, disorienting case of it that won’t go away.

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  17. I have “the sways” quite often. And I’m also prone to feeling light-headed & faint (head down between knees time). In my case, that, at least the latter, may be related to the Moebius Syndrome because of the areas of the brain that are affected.

    Praying it is vertigo in your case, Michelle, & not anything more serious.

    My prayer request: One of the things The Boy has to work on in Cub Scouts is “Duty to God”, & one of the suggestions is to attend a religious service. So Nightingale is taking him to a Unitarian Universalist “church” tomorrow. 😦 You can imagine how disappointed I am to hear this, when my own church is practically right down the road from us.

    Please pray the Holy Spirit will prompt/urge (whatever word you want to use) her to come with me to my church tomorrow. Thank you.

    (And that if she does end up going to the UUC, the Holy Spirit will still be ministering to her heart, reminding her of what she once knew to be true.)

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  18. My husband gave me the choice and I’m feeling not exactly normal, but not concerned and so rather than spend a beautiful day at the ER, I’m staying home and taking it easy. We’ll see if I’ll go to church tomorrow, though at the moment I don’t know why not.

    Do you suppose there’s some sort of Murphy’s Law about only getting sick on weekends?

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  19. Yep, Michelle, it sure sounds like vertigo, and for all that people say “Do this, or do that,” it really depends on what kind of vertigo you have. I have a kind that is hereditary caused by some improper drainage in the ear, and I’ve had two or three days (in past years) of being so sick that all I could do was sit up in a chair propped up. Motion sickness pills did help, and ginger ale helped the wooziness, but I had a couple of different times I threw up, and my brother had at least one episode where he could barely crawl and certainly couldn’t walk. I had one in which I had to sit up in bed (carefully) and yell loudly for my husband, since I needed help to walk. Since it’s a drainage problem, and since I never again want to experience the worst episode I have or a worse one like my brother, I actually sleep with my head a bit higher than I used to, with extra pillows. Before I had a real “episode,” I had several years when I sometimes was just a little dizzy when I first sat up, and occasionally the room would swirl a bit when I lay down.

    I missed going out for one daugther’s birthday one year, and also hadn’t made her a card. But when you have two days when all you can do is sit up, life tends to pass you by.

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  20. Nightingale worked late last night, & slept in this morning, so they won’t be going to the Unitarian Universalist church today. Praying that by the time she tries again, she will decide to come with me to my church. Or any other Bible-believing church if she doesn’t want to do that.

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  24. Unitarian church is extremely (and overtly) political. Activist, liberal politics is what essentially binds them, though different congregations may be more or less political in their services. I’ve never been to one of their services but I used to write up their meeting notices for the paper I used to work for — they’d have political speakers, sometimes political movies, for their Sunday gatherings.

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  25. Thankful Nightengale overslept…continuing my prayers for her heart to soften towards the One Who loves her most ♥️
    DJ my nephew and his “husband” attend a Unitarian “church” in Ohio….because they are “accepting” of them 😞

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  29. DJ – No, she doesn’t know anyone there. She’s merely looking for a place to go to “check off” that thing for The Boy’s Cub Scout duty, & she probably figures the UUC will be unoffensive to her sensibilities.

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  31. Mumsee – That reminds me of the post on a Facebook page for our town. Someone asked if anyone uses pellets for hear (instead of heating). I didn’t comment, but I thought of replying, “No, I use hearing aids.” 🙂

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  33. My husband got vertigo when he was up on a letter a few stories high. He managed to get down, but then had a difficult time walking. His co-workers called for an ambulance. It was one of 3 times he was in the ER for that. The last time was a six hour visit in which he spent more time telling the doctor what he usually does for it, than the doctor spent giving him any answers. He did have a variety of tests. We don’t bother with the ER for that anymore.

    I get dizzy spells, as well, but not vertigo like he does.

    Hope you get some good answers, Michelle.

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