The end of February, I started feeling a little under the weather
and asked Paul to give me a blessing. He did and blessed me to be patient and
that I would be guided to what to take and not take into my body, and that all
would be well in the Lord’s time. Well the next day, both he and I caught the
nasty flu that was going around! That was a surprise and not what I thought
would be an answer to my priesthood blessing!! And we were SO SICK! We couldn’t do much
missionary work for a whole week except sleep, take medicine and feel terrible! We also had to cancel our trip to visit Laurel and her family in Connecticut!
Well after a week Paul started feeling better and I didn’t! Then I was really
discouraged! I would feel a bit better and then feel bad again. It went on for several weeks, with visits to
the health food store, text and messaging with Dr. Johnson back in Utah and
several more Priesthood blessings. One
of the worst symptoms was terrible nausea that I just couldn’t seem to find any relief.
Our doctor, Dr. Johnson suggested medications which I took
and they helped but the side effects were bad too because of my sensitivity!
He suggested that we might need to do a scope
on my stomach, that there might be something going on there that we don’t know
about.
In the middle of all of this our mission president, President
Stratford, President Birch, President Jacobs and Paul all gave me a blessing
and President Stratford told me that I would know exactly what I was supposed
to do. As a result of that blessing one night I woke up in the middle of the
night and knew exactly what I was supposed to do: go to Utah and get care from
the doctors who know me including Dr. Johnson and the scope.
I felt very confident about that and then got hit with a
terrible UTI and got really discouraged! So not only did I have the flue, nausea,
I had a bad UTI and felt terrible! With my knowledge of herbs and natural health I thought I
could get this under control, but was very very sick for four days, and then finally
we had to go to the emergency room. Yes,
I had a UTI, but then had to take antibiotics which made me very sick on top of
all of that. I felt terrible!
We had a special family prayer so that I would feel well enough
to go home and so I made my reservation and flew home on Sunday March 25th
. I was able to stay in Heather’s
basement apartment, where Barbara used to live and just slept and visited
doctors for a full week. I saw all of
the naturopathic doctors that I have used and they all agreed that I was really depleted! Joyce South said, the lights are barely on
and no one is home, and Dr. Hirsbruenner said that he could not even test me
his regular way, that I was so depleted, that there was a “hole in my bucket”. Darlene
Hillock tested me three time and offered many suggestions! I miraculously was able to get into a new doctor,
Dr. Hatch, who said that my body was struggling with metals as well as
everything else. Coshocton is so
polluted, the water is bad and so is the air, hence the metals!
I then had the
scope where they found bad gastritis and ulcers! So I was one sick gal!
So after a week of tests and doctor visits I felt that I had
the tools to head back to Ohio and get better! I had so many many miracles
during that week! One of which was the sunshine, something that I was craving
and had not seen in Ohio for months!
During this week of naps and doctor visits, I was able to
spend some sweet time with Gregg and his
family and Heather and her family. We even got to go to Charlie Chows together.
I even got to watch general conference with my dad. I missed Paul, but was so glad he was able to
carry on the missionary work in Ohio and not be stranded or worried here in
Utah. He did call one day and suggest that it might be a good idea for us to
come home, which made me cry and cry. I
have been called as a missionary and don’t want to cut our missionary time
short, it has been so wonderful!
One other sweet thing is that I felt my mom’s presence with
me all of the time. I got to visit her grave and that
was nice. Because of her I didn’t need
to worry about the expense of all of these doctor visits and appointments. What a blessing!
I know that all will be well in the Lord’s time, but life is
sometimes not what we plan. I have the
faith to accept the Lord’s will, but would surely like to stay and serve in
Ohio!
I am grateful for the Priesthood and the plan of happiness!
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