Pressing on...

Care O' Lynn, the swelling in my face is down through the steroids the swelling is attacking my internal back wall but Icing is helping a lot. Thank you for asking. I am doing better today the steroids are making me shake and sleepless though.

Well what a perfect day to get a great big package from my Sister back East. She will be moving over seas and has kindly taken the effort to separate and send to me some wonderful sewing supplies.

These are computer programs for the Husqvarna Embroidery Machine. These are very valuable Thank you Sis if your out there.

Lots of beautiful notions the image does not do them justice. Buttons and silk bias and trims. WOW!

And Patterns! My, my!
There are craft and kids and some many very stylish ones.

This was a sweet gift from her. Especially received today.
I am in for the long haul.
I received a wonderful devotional this morning from Denise about encouraging each other. How pressed Paul was and how he hung in there. I am pressed, but I do see how much love there is in all of this.

This diagnosis explains years of swelling and pains that were mis diagnosed or just plain unexplainable. I am grateful that my face swelled up and pushed the truth into view of a very talented ER doctor. I am worn yet I see that God protected me for I was about to go to a pain management man to see about injections in my low back. It is this inflammatory disorder that is causing my interior wall to swell and shut off the nerves in my low back and cut off the blood flow. I was told that it is similar to being very pregnant and having the circulation reduced. So I have to follow the path now and make hast to set an appointment. Strangely it also goes right along with the eating for my blood type too. Inflammation is an allergic response. I do not have something called c1 interceptors. I have read some about this in the eating for blood type too.
All I see is Gods loving intervention and support to cause me to do the right thing and make the right choices however inconvenient it will be for the others in my family (although I think they too will benefit from the increased nutrition). Now I see Him telling me to put myself first in this. It is not common for me to put myself first in anything. So there again in His abundant LOVE for me.

I have been at first very discouraged, but the more I studied this the more I see the hope. I felt so worn out that I was exhausted of breadth. I was feeling very sorry for myself too. I got "angry in" (depressed) then "angry out" (mad at life) now I am using the "gift of anger" (strength) to compel me onward. The kindness you have all shown me makes me think of Paul's letters. I need your prayers. I need you. As I pray for others and walk the path willingly I need prayer and that is OK. I need to learn to ask for it without apology.

I have children to raise, dreams to fulfill, a husband to love and nurture too. I have a purpose and a path to follow. Whether in pain or not that will not change. I will set my face like flint to spark at the strike and make light. So many are suffering so many are in plenty without apparent want or need lost in consumption and loneliness. I will press on. I will keep the pace set out to compel me toward success.