Prayer request

Kerissa • Aug 20, 2020

Hi, friends,

I haven’t updated in so long, but I could use your prayers.❤ I shared this on social media last week but will share here for those who don’t know.  Last Tuesday, I was up all night with horrible, cramping abdominal pain, and I couldn’t fall asleep until after 6 AM.🙁

I had an appointment with my GI dr. today, and I told him about what happened.   Given my GI dysmotility, he said it could have been a partial bowel obstruction….   We also discussed something called “intussusception” which is when the GI tract basically “telescopes” into itself, but that would be last on his list and the only way to diagnose that would be to get a CT scan during the episode.

Anyways, I haven’t been feeling my normal still, and it seems like I’m going through a “mito crash” which is a decompensation episode that can happen with mitochondrial disease.   My eyes are really droopy, I’m exhausted, weak, having bad pain, and not tolerating food as well….my stomach will get really distended which makes me look 6 months pregnant. 😞   A few years ago, I had a mito crash that landed me in the hospital.   But, obviously, I don’t want to go there, so my GI dr. is going to talk with my primary care dr. to see about getting some IV D10 (dextrose) and infusing it through my central line for a few days or so.   D10 can be helpful for mito crashes.

So that’s where things stand currently.   It’s been hard, but I’m trying to wait on the Lord.   I just feel so crappy. 😔

Thank you all for your love and support.   I know this too shall pass!  I lettered the quote above when I saw it on Instagram, and it’s so encouraging.❤

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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