Six of one, half a dozen of the other

July 31, 2008 · Posted in Blogging the disease, For His glory, Life · 7 Comments 

I have not been at work at all this week. Instead I have spent the majority of the time either in bed or wishing I was in bed. At the moment I cannot stand for more than 15 minutes before the nausea becomes overwhelming. So here is the symptom count at the moment:

  • Abdominal pain
  • nausea
  • exhaustion
  • dia*****

No it is not very pleasant. On the plus side, in a major coup, I was able to secure an emergency consult with the best Doctor in the state when it comes to Chrones. She agreed to see me this coming Monday. I couldn’t even get in to see my regular gastro until the end of August.

I did manage to see a nurse practitioner yesterday that was able to prescribe something for the nausea and pain. The medicines do work somewhat, I still get nauseous after standing for a bit but it is now as overwhelming and it goes away if I sit for a few minutes. Unfortunate side effects of the meds= even more exhausted than I was, but I will take it over the other problems any day.

I am hoping to resume a regular posting schedule here soon and post something that isn’t whining about my illness!

God bless,
Jeff A

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Being sick stinks!

July 28, 2008 · Posted in Blog, For His glory, Life · 10 Comments 

But it is giving me time to work on this site and another project that I am going to tell you about now. First a little background.

About a month ago Becky and I were driving around doing errands when I saw on the back of a truck a sticker for a website called free yourself from debt. I remarked to her that what we really need is a website called free yourself with prayer. Well, apparently that was Gods idea, he planted it and made it an obsession.

I bought a new domain http://www.freeyourselfwithprayer.org and have been working the idea ever since. Right now it is mostly a placeholder. There is only one article two articles so far, one written by one of my friends from church and the other is a Bible passage. It will slowly grow as I get more articles either submitted by others or written by me.

I find the whole thing deliciously ironic considering I really am not the greatest prayer in the world. I can’t even pray out loud in prayer groups or I start stammering and stuttering. Yet God put this on me and I have taken it and ran. It may not be the greatest site on prayer but it will be exactly what God led me to do.

If you have an article on prayer that you would like to submit then email me or comment here and let me know. All authors will receive full credit for their writing. I will take anything that has to do with prayer, either articles on prayer or personal testimonies as to how prayer has affected your life.

God bless,
Jeff A

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There are some things you just don’t want!

July 26, 2008 · Posted in Blogging the disease · 4 Comments 

Over the last week I have been in the emergency room twice, once from home and once from work. The trip from work was via an ambulance. My chrones is giving me fits and really making life miserable. I’m not sure what exactly is going on, I will have to wait to see my gastro guy to find that out.

The ambulance ride was due to the fact that I had thrown up so hard and so long that I was unable to stand on my own. I was severely dehydrated and so weak that it was pathetic!

Hopefully this too will pass. I am trying to keep a positive attitude, which has been very difficult. This is about the longest that I have sat at my computer all week. It is just too uncomfortable to sit here and type.

On that note, I am going back to bed.

Peace!

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Coming soon

July 22, 2008 · Posted in Blog · 4 Comments 

The site will be moved to a faster, more robust server. Hopefully this will take care of some of the access issues that have been going on. While I have a love/hate relationship with my hosting company, it will still be with them as they still have some of the better tech support out there. They assured me that I will be much happier with this hosting package.

So somewhere toward the end of the week we should see some improvement. It will take a bit for the domain to propagate to the new server so there may be some issues at the beginning, but in the long run it should be worth it.

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Sleep is for sissies

July 20, 2008 · Posted in Life · 4 Comments 

Back on third shift, posting may be sporadic for awhile.

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