House Church Talk - Urgent prayer for healing

[Janet Murphy]

Sue ~
Will be praying.  My, the job of parenting is never done, is it?  How
blessed they are to have you and for you to have them.  I think it's time
for this great land of ours to offer national health insurance.  I know it's
not perfect, but I think it's the way we need to go.  Anyway, I'll be
praying for Jennifer.  Please keep us posted.  May God give you and your son
strength and peace and may the children feel great calmness in your home.

janet
www.janetmurphy.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeanne Elder" <godsgirll777 at msn.com>
To: "My Dear Friend" <hisservant4evr at msn.com>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: House Church Talk -  Urgent prayer for healing


>From a house church friend in Paris,TX
----- Original Message ----- 

Dear friends,

This has been the most horrible, nerve wracking, frightening week of my
life.

Let me give you some background first:

As most of you know I am a partially disabled grandma, and a widow and have
some problems walking at times due to post polio syndrome. However I can
drive usually for up to at least an hour at a time before my legs give out
and certainly short trips are fine.

And my daughter-in-law, Jennifer, who has seizures has had exactly the
opposite problem, she always could walk but isn't allowed to drive, making
holding down a part time job and caring for two little kids very difficult.

Soooooo as most of you know, for over 2 years now my son, daughter-in-law
and the kids and I have lived together and it has been a win/win situation
for all concerned. I drive, she walks and we both take turns watching the 2
little ones and my son has been able to go back to college and it all works
beautifully.

Well Jennifer started in November experiencing some partial blindness, and
some dizzy spells and we started a journey of taking her from doctor to
doctor and no one could find anything wrong, and meanwhile she got worse and
worse and it finally got to where she could not keep anything down, constant
vomiting, and could not walk at all without stumbling and falling.

So then we switched tactics and we started a journey of taking her from
hospital to hospital, two different hospitals kept her overnight and ran
tests but couldn't find anything wrong so the released her.

But after the first of the year she got worse yet. The first week of January
she not only was constantly vomiting even with the strongest nausea medicine
they can prescribe, {she has lost 12 pounds in two months} and stumbled so
much she fell twice and sustained two head injuries and a black-eye, along
with numerous bruises, BUT she was beginning to hallucinate and suffer all
kinds of bizarre behavior and personality changes.

Once more she stayed overnight in a hospital but blood-work and CAT scans
and some other tests didn't show anything so THEY RELEASED HER.

And twice she didn't even get admitted to the hospital but was released from
the emergency room, "well take her to THIS hospital over here.we can't help
her".

Can't? or won't?

Of course part of the reason for releasing someone so obviously ill is no
insurance.

For those of you not in the USA, yes this is the American way.either you
have a nice job with insurance or if you are just trying your best to make
it with what you can do . you fall through the cracks, and do not qualify
for any kind of medical help and so hospitals are like."well if you can find
a program that will pay .bring her back and we'll run some more intensive
tests."

Grhhhhhh....

My son, {her husband} and I have tried and tried to find help. Meanwhile she
became bedridden and needed 24/7 care for the last two days she was still at
home.

Finally we got real drastic, I won't go into details but WE GOT REAL DRASTIC
.and the poor thing was probably one step away from a coma at that point and
thank God she is in a hospital now [even if it is 100 miles away, that's ok]
and being cared for.

They feel she may have sustained a head injury of some kind, possibly while
having a seizure back in November and may have a blood clot, or a lesion on
her brain, or the head injury she had as a 5 year old that causes her
siezures in the first place may be getting worse, they really don't know yet
as their first priority is to get her medically stable after  having gone
through so much and all the vomiting.

It may take awhile to figure out just what it is, but we are reasonably sure
she won't be released this time, from this hospital.praise God. And to be
fair ...it COULD be the injury {IF there truly is one} is in the frontal
lobe and ordinary CAT scans and MRI's won't pick it up because it's too deep
in the brain, but once the symptoms got bad enough they can almost diagnose
it from the symptoms alone.

They say she can't walk without stumbling and falling because she has one
side of her brain with some damage and the other side is trying to take over
for both sides but can't get the hang of it ..so her left foot acts like a
left foot, and her right foot since it's getting messages from the wrong
side of the brain is acting like a left foot too.

In other words she puts her left foot down where it belongs but she ALSO
puts her right foot down where her left foot belongs and that's why she
falls.

Please pray for her and my son and pray for her two kids aged 4 and 5, as
they are old enough to know something really bad is going on, but too young
to understand anything other than mama is very sick, daddy and nana are
worried and they are scared.

I've been trying to hug and hold them and let them ask questions and just
talk as much as I can.

God bless each and everyone of you, Sue



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