By the way, Mimi, I was wondering if you would mind adding me to your prayer list, just because I feel rather unwell? I have been getting a nagging pain in the left side on and off for a few years now. I did get examined for it (ultrasound etc, and they put some tubing with a camera on it into my stomach to check it out), and they couldn't find anything, but it is getting worse, I think, and my digestive system is increasingly going haywire for no really good reason. I need to get it checked out again. It feels as if there is some kind of blockage or problem in my gut somewhere. I am a little worried. In fact if you wouldn't mind posting a prayer request at Wounded Bird I would be immensely grateful.
O God, the strength of the weak and the comfort of sufferers: Mercifully accept our prayers, and grant to your servant Cathy the help of your power, that her sickness may be turned into health, and our sorrow into joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayers offered for Cathy that all may turn out well and may she have peace of mind in the meantime and easing of pain.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mimi, and thank you Paul, all prayers accepted with gratitude :-)
ReplyDeletePrayers from me and the cats? You got 'em!
ReplyDeletePrayers from me too. Hope they figure out what's going on, and quickly.
ReplyDeletePrayers, and a (I promise, chaste---for now! ;-) ) {hug}.
ReplyDeletePraying for you Cathy --that all sounds so very uncomfortable and discouraging.
ReplyDeletePrayers for you Cathy. I hope you will ask your docs for a colonoscopy. If it feels like a blockage, it could well be one. And they could find it best with a colonoscopy. Of course I'm prejudiced toward them. They saved my life!
ReplyDeletePrayers, Cathy, especially for short waiting lists!
ReplyDeleteHope all is well, Cathy.
ReplyDeletePrayers for Cathy -- unknowing may be very well in a cloud but I have found it very difficult in medical issues.
ReplyDeletePain in the left side and digestive haywire are the main symptoms of what I have--Crohn's colitis, meaning Crohn's disease confined to the large intestine. Or it might be ulcerative colitis, the other form of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Cathy, if they haven't done a recent colonoscopy, please have them do one. A blockage should be easier to catch--usually just a GI series or CAT scan after a nice glass of barium. But one primary symptom of blockages is vomiting--if it can't go all the way down, then it will go back up the way it came. Do you have that.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, prayers for a refuah shelemah (complete healing--your Hebrew lesson of the day).
-- unknowing may be very well in a cloud but I have found it very difficult in medical issues.
ReplyDeleteAll too true, Susankay.
It sounds like depression or anxiety to me. A physical problem of the type being discussed tends to become chronic a lot quicker than you have had to put up with your problem. I had an exactly similar, long lasting pain and bowel problems prior to my descent into madness (the mind and body are inextricably linked). When I sorted my mental health problems out the pains and stomach cramps just disappeared.
ReplyDeleteSo, check out the physical option, but if the docs can't anything, get yourself to a shrink. It has to be admitted that you do tend to worry about all sorts of people and things and stuff, over and beyond the call of duty :-)
I'll mention you in dispatches.
It sounds like depression or anxiety to me ... I had an exactly similar, long lasting pain and bowel problems prior to my descent into madness
ReplyDeleteOh, well that's a relief, I feel much effing better now. Thanks, Jonathan :-(
Thanks to everyone else too - I am very grateful for your prayers.
ReplyDeletePS Jonathan, I know you mean it kindly :-)
ReplyDeleteNeither kindly or otherwise, Cathy. It was just a straightforward fact. Although, given the choice between depression and Chrohn's Desease, I would plump for the madness. You can recover from madness.
ReplyDeleteGiven the choice between depression and Chrohn's Desease, I would plump for the madness.
ReplyDeleteI am sure you have a point there.
Well, I've seen what tmtim has to put up with.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteJust to let those know who prayed (and many thanks), I saw my doctor today, and she has ruled out anything serious. She has sent me for blood tests and scans though. I am relieved, and really grateful for your prayers.
ReplyDeleteBlood tests? Waste of time.
ReplyDeleteSomething is making you unhappy and your brain is displacing the pain from your mind to your body.
Sort it out before it turns into a chronic illness either of the mind or the body.
Well, Dr MadPriest, does the NHS cover your expert medical advice, or will Cathy be billed for services rendered?
ReplyDeleteHeck, woman. This is just a matter of "it takes one to know one," and spending a heck of a lot of my working life with sick people.
ReplyDeleteI think Cathy's problem is to do with a lack of self-confidence and not believing herself to be the wonderful person that she actually is. Somebody in her past has, over quite a long period, told her she is no good. They lied to her but she cannot stop thinking that they might have been telling the truth. This is stopping her achieving what she is really capable of and is making her unhappy and unfulfilled in life. In order to cope with her busy life, her brain is pushing the pain onto her body. This is real pain.
Sort it out before it turns into a chronic illness either of the mind or the body.
ReplyDeleteMad Priest, that's exactly what I'm trying to do.
Dr MadPriest, I like that :-) It has the mad scientist ring to it. It makes me think of Mad Priest in a white coat with a stethoscope and with his hair all awry like Einstein's.
I've just seen your second post, Mad Priest - very serious. I don't know what to say. You're not completely wrong.
ReplyDeleteNo, I doubt that I am. I have very good discernment or, to put it another way, I stare at people. It drives Jane mad. And Mimi has the same gift and will have come to exactly the same conclusion. If she was standing beside me now, I would slap her one.
ReplyDeleteIf she was standing beside me now, I would slap her one.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can be sure that I'd have you arrested. I'm just saying.
There isn't a court in the land that wouldn't accept my plea of extreme provocation.
ReplyDeleteCareful now, MadPriest or folks will pop over to say we must not quarrel.
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