Longing..

Kerissa • Aug 09, 2012

Yesterday was a longgg day.  So tired now.  We arrived at the Center for Health and Healing at 7:15 in the morning and didn’t get home till after 3:00.  Almost 8 hours spent there!

Anyway, here’s an update on my left hand/arm:

Things are about the same.  It’s still swollen, stiff, and discolored.  Heat makes my hand swell up to the point that I can’t “make a fist.”  Cold air (like wind and A/C) “burns” my skin.

My pain dr. set up another treatment plan for me:

I’m to try mirror therapy again and start up physical therapy once more.  I couldn’t even stay away from rehab for 3 weeks.😉  I wasn’t expecting mirror therapy to be painful, but it was.  I looked in a mirror at my “left” hand, and my sis brushed her hand all over my right hand/forearm to make it appear as if she’s touching my left hand.  The weirdest thing happened- even though my left hand wasn’t being touched at all, the burning pain increased and I couldn’t stand more than a minute of that at a time!  At PT, I laid on the table, and my therapist mainly lightly brushed his hands all over my left hand/arm.  It was torture.

Lastly, my pain dr. is gonna try another stellate ganglion block on me…  He thinks that’s the best thing to do now since the CRPS is so severe at this point.  I guess I do want another block, despite seeing with my very eyes a LONG needle being driven into the front of my neck at full speed…jk.😉  I just want pain relief!  My pain dr.’s speaking at a pain symposium in Wisconsin till the end of this week and he’s booked up all next week in clinic, but he worked things out on the schedule so that I can tentatively have the procedure on the 15th!🙂  So thankful for him.  If the block doesn’t help, he may think about having me go through ketamine infusions…  They are only done inpatient, though, in the hospital, so he’s not sure yet how he could make them outpatient..

I will let you guys know if I have the block for sure next week!  I will only be going through with it if there is no improvement with therapy alone.

Thank you for your prayers!  God has faithfully carried me through each day!🙂

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. ❤️
By Kerissa Lee 01 Jan, 2024
"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
By Kerissa Lee 11 Dec, 2023
"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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