the test on my neck went well today, numbing the pain. this means that we will go ahead with the procedure tomorrow.
please keep me in your prayers.
-lindsey
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
getting closer
in my last post i shared about the next steps that will be taken regarding my neck and back pain:
since then i have had my MRI, which was fine, and i have also been to the pain management clinic.
talking with the Doctor at pain management i didn't receive a proposition that i expected nor wanted to hear.
He said that since physical therapy and medication have not worked (as well as taking into account various tests that i've had) he believes that the next step and my last option is to burn the nerves around one or two vertebra's in my spine. he says that they are inflamed, and to protect them my muscles are tensing up to protect them. this explains the ever present tightness and pain in my neck and shoulders.
i really did not expect to or want to hear that i would have to kill part of my body in order to have relief from the pain. however, the nerves will also grow back in 6-8 months.
i have prayed for healing, and however G-d desires to bring that about i believe that he will. in the meantime, i pray that i will continue to be a light and a witness to the doctors and other medical staff that i encounter.
Monday i will undergo a test to see if this method of relief will actually work, and if it does the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday.
Please keep David and I in your prayers,
in His shalom, Lindsey
since then i have had my MRI, which was fine, and i have also been to the pain management clinic.
talking with the Doctor at pain management i didn't receive a proposition that i expected nor wanted to hear.
He said that since physical therapy and medication have not worked (as well as taking into account various tests that i've had) he believes that the next step and my last option is to burn the nerves around one or two vertebra's in my spine. he says that they are inflamed, and to protect them my muscles are tensing up to protect them. this explains the ever present tightness and pain in my neck and shoulders.
i really did not expect to or want to hear that i would have to kill part of my body in order to have relief from the pain. however, the nerves will also grow back in 6-8 months.
i have prayed for healing, and however G-d desires to bring that about i believe that he will. in the meantime, i pray that i will continue to be a light and a witness to the doctors and other medical staff that i encounter.
Monday i will undergo a test to see if this method of relief will actually work, and if it does the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday.
Please keep David and I in your prayers,
in His shalom, Lindsey
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Change: the disrupt of order in your life, adjustment
It has been such a long time since I last wrote and many things have happened.
To start with I no longer work at Shelter House. It was a season the left questions of why, but G-d answered those none to soon.
Since working there I have become good friends with one of my previous co-workers Sandra. At the time that David and I really needed a couple to fellowship with G-d provided Sandra and Joseph. Then a couple weeks later Sandra informed that a townhouse, two doors down from her was for rent. Since then we have moved all of our earthly belongs to our new home. The house we have anointed and dedicated to be used by G-d for his glory.
Things have been very jumbled and out of whack these past few days... finding socks and where did the iron go when we moved? In the very near future we will be having a yard sale.
David has absolutely loved the yard and i don't know if i emphasised that enough. Every morning and every night he is out there, watering, pruning, cutting as he works to restore it's previous beauty.
I however, am starting college in the fall at Northwest Florida State College. I am so excited and ready for it to begin. G-d has also provided a part time job that I am really enjoying!
In the midst of life I am still struggling with pain in my neck and shoulders. Some of it is from the car accident that i was in two years ago and also from a fall that i took this previous November while I was in Israel.
Since then I have been in physical therapy, seen a number of Doctors and have been taking unwanted medications. The medicine doesn't make me feel like myself and the pain alters things that I do or would like to do. The next step that we are taking is to go to a pain management clinic while continuing medication. I ask for your prayers that G-d's plan would be first and come to fruition. Whatever His will is that is what I want and I know that I will be healed someday. In the meantime I will continue to be a witness of His ever continuing love and faith fullness.
I hope you are all doing well. We really miss our friends at Beth Yeshua and our family. Oh, praise report! Olivia- our niece who is two- she is two and just finished her first treatment of chemo, the doctors could not find the tumor!!! PRAISE ADONAI!!!
Many blessings, shalom and ahava,
Lindsey
To start with I no longer work at Shelter House. It was a season the left questions of why, but G-d answered those none to soon.
Since working there I have become good friends with one of my previous co-workers Sandra. At the time that David and I really needed a couple to fellowship with G-d provided Sandra and Joseph. Then a couple weeks later Sandra informed that a townhouse, two doors down from her was for rent. Since then we have moved all of our earthly belongs to our new home. The house we have anointed and dedicated to be used by G-d for his glory.
Things have been very jumbled and out of whack these past few days... finding socks and where did the iron go when we moved? In the very near future we will be having a yard sale.
David has absolutely loved the yard and i don't know if i emphasised that enough. Every morning and every night he is out there, watering, pruning, cutting as he works to restore it's previous beauty.
I however, am starting college in the fall at Northwest Florida State College. I am so excited and ready for it to begin. G-d has also provided a part time job that I am really enjoying!
In the midst of life I am still struggling with pain in my neck and shoulders. Some of it is from the car accident that i was in two years ago and also from a fall that i took this previous November while I was in Israel.
Since then I have been in physical therapy, seen a number of Doctors and have been taking unwanted medications. The medicine doesn't make me feel like myself and the pain alters things that I do or would like to do. The next step that we are taking is to go to a pain management clinic while continuing medication. I ask for your prayers that G-d's plan would be first and come to fruition. Whatever His will is that is what I want and I know that I will be healed someday. In the meantime I will continue to be a witness of His ever continuing love and faith fullness.
I hope you are all doing well. We really miss our friends at Beth Yeshua and our family. Oh, praise report! Olivia- our niece who is two- she is two and just finished her first treatment of chemo, the doctors could not find the tumor!!! PRAISE ADONAI!!!
Many blessings, shalom and ahava,
Lindsey
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Completion: The act or state of being or making something complete; accomplishment.
Monday night David came home from his check ride with a goofy grin on his face. I asked him half asleep if he passed his check ride, knowing that before he even answered that he had.
His completion of his training has been something that has been a prayer request for us; it has been hard to complete with the weather and planes not cooperating. i am almost ecstatic to know that he has completed his training.
The next step will be deployments, but as G-d has been showing me through the last year. We live our lives in seasons and through the times that we don't think that we can get through or even if it will ever end, He gives us exactly what we need to get through the season.
Right now i am celebrating exactly where we are in this season right now!
Congratulations David! I'm so proud of you!
Congratulations David! I'm so proud of you!
Monday, June 9, 2008
in this season
"For everything there is a season, a right time for every intention under heaven-" Ecclesiastes 3:1
I have to really believe that verse right now, all in all it was a really hard weekend. While it may be a time of rest and a break from work, I have to say that David and I defiantly had a lot of stress from our jobs weighing on us.
Saturday afternoon we found out that our niece, Olivia has cancer on her liver. To say the least it was devastating news to hear. She and her twin sister just turned 2 a couple of weeks ago. (in the photo: David is holding Olivia and i am holding Sophia).
While i have known people with cancer, i can't describe what an emotional pain this is to bear knowing that your family is suffering.
but through my life so far, G-d has shown himself to be awesome even in the direst of circumstances, and when our pain is so great i have the think that in someway i am getting just a glimpse of the pain that he feels for us. it has been so comforting to know that the creator of the universe knows my name, cares who i am, what i do and how i feel.
to sum it up, i am on my knees praying for the comfort of John and Elizabeth as they face this trial in their life, praying that G-d would surround them, dance around them and sing his love over them and their little girls.
In this season, in this time I will praise him, praise him through these trials because he is worthy and holds us in the palm of his hand.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
...Jack...
Memorial day weekend we went to Macon for Gina and Tim's wedding as well as to see our family. I was so excited to see my cousin Jack! he has been through a lot of surgeries and it is great to see him doing so well and getting so big! G-d really has a plan and purpose for Jack's life!
good times in the neighborhood
Noticing that my last post was all about work it's pretty obvious that i don't have much time now! Things have been crazy, learning everything at the office, training and getting everything done.
It has been a good change for us though. It is great when i can come home and crash on the couch while David cooks! yum!
So, this past weekend was really great. We finally got the information about the messianic home fellowship here in fort walton. lo and behold it is about 1 mile down the street from us. I don't know how we could get any closer!
Their service is held Saturday night at 6 pm, and all of the people were so open, warm and friendly. David and i left feeling refreshed and so encouraged to be around believers that earnestly seek G-d's truth and revelation.
We are so excited to see where it all goes and how G-d is going to use us here.
I know it is a silly side note but Sunday we spent most of the day deep cleaning the apartment. It fells SO good to wake up and see my floor clean and vacuumed. And i hate to leave in the morning because it is so relaxing to just spend time at home. I really never have appreciated going home as much as i do now.
When we were driving around Saturday, we toured a town house that is for sale. While we probably won't be moving anytime soon it really got us thinking about the dreams that we do have. Lately G-d seems to be solidifying our place here in fort walton as well as our fellowship. Just a month ago I didn't have a job or a fellowship, and so much has changed since then.
I feel truly blessed to be here and so excited to see what else may come. It is really starting to feel as if life has a meaning here.
Yay!!!
It has been a good change for us though. It is great when i can come home and crash on the couch while David cooks! yum!
So, this past weekend was really great. We finally got the information about the messianic home fellowship here in fort walton. lo and behold it is about 1 mile down the street from us. I don't know how we could get any closer!
Their service is held Saturday night at 6 pm, and all of the people were so open, warm and friendly. David and i left feeling refreshed and so encouraged to be around believers that earnestly seek G-d's truth and revelation.
We are so excited to see where it all goes and how G-d is going to use us here.
I know it is a silly side note but Sunday we spent most of the day deep cleaning the apartment. It fells SO good to wake up and see my floor clean and vacuumed. And i hate to leave in the morning because it is so relaxing to just spend time at home. I really never have appreciated going home as much as i do now.
When we were driving around Saturday, we toured a town house that is for sale. While we probably won't be moving anytime soon it really got us thinking about the dreams that we do have. Lately G-d seems to be solidifying our place here in fort walton as well as our fellowship. Just a month ago I didn't have a job or a fellowship, and so much has changed since then.
I feel truly blessed to be here and so excited to see what else may come. It is really starting to feel as if life has a meaning here.
Yay!!!
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