Prayer Requests

Kerissa • Apr 27, 2022

Dear friends,

I’d really appreciate your prayers. The past few weeks, a bunch of different things have happened.

I wrote in the past how I have an eye muscle disorder called Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia which is from my mitochondrial dna depletion syndrome. In simple terms, it basically means eye muscle paralysis. For several years now, I slowly lost the movement of being able to move my eyeballs to look to the left, then up, then down.. But I was always able to look to the right.. Well, up until a few weeks ago. I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t look to the right well anymore which made me really sad.😢Now I have to turn my whole head to look different directions. I saw my neuro-ophthalmologist in December, and everything was stable then. So this happening suddenly was hard to realize… I see her again next month for her to take a look.

Around the same time, something started happening with the hearing in my right ear. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like there’s a “short circuit.” There’s an almost constant buzzing sound, and that keeps me up at night.🙁I have a full evaluation with the neuro-otology (ENT) clinic at OHSU at the end of May. Maybe this is just a benign thing, but regardless, it’s still something I’ve had to adjust to..😔

On top of that, the past few days, I’ve been feeling crummy with tachycardia, elevated liver enzymes, nystagmus, and a terrible headache every day.😭Not sure what’s going on, but I’d appreciate prayer that this will soon blow over, especially because my whole family and I are heading to Sunriver for several days at the end of next week. I don’t want this to be the start of a brewing “mito crash.”😞

I love you all and am so grateful for your prayers.❤I thank God for his comforting promises like the verse I lettered above. He is faithful.

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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