Day 9!- my schedule

Kerissa • Dec 11, 2013

Yesterday:


Saw cardiology and orthopedics for my POTS disorder and back pain. Will update some other day about how these appointments went. 🙂

Today:

It snowed about 4 more inches this morning here in Cincinnati! Sooo fun and beautiful.

Had an abdomen x-ray to follow up on this GI test I had this past Thursday called a sitz marker study.  

Saw Pulmonary Medicine once again and went through Part 2 of the pulmonary function test to check lung function/strength.

Was able to do something fun after my appointments and visit the Newport Aquarium in Kentucky! The oregon coast aquarium in Newport, Oregon pales in comparison! 😉 These white alligators were on display at the one in Kentucky! Soo weird but amazing! I’ll try to post a pic when I get home.

Tomorrow:

Have a super early appointment with the mitochondrial disease specialist and genetic counselor in Genetics. Will be discussing my nuclear mitochondrial exome sequencing results.

Also have a physical therapy consult in the afternoon at one of Cincinnati Children’s neighborhood locations.

Hopefully GI will be calling with my esophageal, antro-duodenal, and colonic manometry test results. Bracing myself as the doctors said results can often be normal even when experiencing GI dysmotility..

I hope to update with results tomorrow night! But if not, then definitely after my appointment with Neurology on Friday.. 🙂

Good night, everyone!

By Kerissa Lee 23 Jan, 2024
Hi, friends, I had a whole other post ready to go with some good news, but instead, I have an urgent prayer request. I started experiencing sudden onset numbness, tingling, and weakness in my whole left leg, and it’s been so scary. 🥺 It just came on out of the blue. I was doing so well with physical therapy each week (able to walk fast on the treadmill and leg press 40 lbs), and now, I have to limp because my left leg is soo weak. I really want to avoid the ED as much as possible, so I saw one of my doctors today. She’s concerned I’m having a big motor nerve issue. 😭 The plan is to see a physical medicine specialist, have a nerve conduction study, get an urgent MRI done, as well as see my PCP and pain doctor on the 25th and 29th for further evaluation/testing. I know I already said this, but it really has been so scary to lose function so quickly. Can you pray that I will trust the Lord and not worry? It’s been very hard, so I’d really appreciate your prayers and support in the coming weeks. Thank you so much. ❤️
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"Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." Hosea 6:3
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"This hard place in which you, perhaps, find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him."  Elisabeth Elliot
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