Prayer requests

Kerissa • Sep 23, 2020

Hi friends,

I just had some prayer requests again.  It’s been almost 3 weeks since I came home from the hospital, but I’m still really weak.  So in addition to physical therapy, my doctor referred me to occupational hand therapy at OHSU as it’s so hard to open/hold things, hand letter, etc. (the above piece is an old piece that I lettered more than a year ago).  I want to go back to my “normal” routine, but I’m not able to because of this weakness.🙁 Please pray that I can get stronger and also be able to find a balance with working hard at therapy but not overdoing it.

On top of that, ever since the hospital, I haven’t been able to fall asleep until after 4 AM every single night even though I’m so tired.😔

This is what a typical night in the hospital was like:

-10 PM: nurse gives my nightly medications, starts IV carnitine, IV magnesium, IV potassium, continues IV dextrose

-10:30 PM: IV pump alarms due to “air in line,” nurse comes to fix issue

-11 PM: nurse gives IV pain medications

-11:30 PM: different IV pump alarms due to “down occlusion,” nurse comes to fix issue

-12 AM: IV potassium pump alarms due to “infusion complete”, nurse comes to unhook me, gives oral pain meds

-1 AM: nurse gives more IV pain meds

-2 AM: IV carnitine pump alarms due to “infusion complete,” nurse comes to unhook me

-3 AM: nurse gives oral pain meds

-3:30 AM: IV dextrose bag runs out, nurse comes to replace bag

-4:00 AM: nurse gives more IV pain meds (continues giving IV pain meds every 2 hours and oral pain meds every 3 hours the rest of the night)

-4:30 AM: nurse comes to draw morning blood work

So, as you can see, it was just awful!  My body got so used to that schedule.😭 I’ve been taking melatonin, but it’s not helping.  My eyes get heavy and everything, but it’s like my brain won’t “shut off.”  I even tried waking up one hour earlier yesterday, but that didn’t help either.  Will be trying a different natural sleep aid tonight.  Could you please pray that my body will be able to sleep at night?  I need rest so that my muscles can get stronger.

Thank you so much for praying for me, friends.❤

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
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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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