Do you ever wonder how a situation is going to end? That has been on my mind lately. A medical complication, which is very easy to treat, has tossed around from doctor to doctor. No one wants to give me the proper treatment for it. I get a little bit of medicine, start to feel great, and then the medicine ends. My symptoms come roaring back.
Despite the simple conclusion, the medicine was working and now the symptoms have come back because the medicine is no longer being administered, I am given excuses why I cannot continue to receive treatment. A normal treatment protocol is 3-4 months. However, after I am given two weeks of the medicine, I am told I have received enough.
When I become very sick again, medical personnel seem perplexed. Two weeks of the medicine should have been more than enough. When finally more medicine is given, it takes me two weeks to get back to where I was when the first two weeks of treatment ended. And once again, the treatment ends.
The is a real possibility starting and stopping the medicine will cause my body to become resistant to the drug. Medical providers seem to be oblivious to this.
In desperation, I saw my primary care provider today. I was shocked to learn I had lost seven pounds in five weeks. She was very concerned. Although she could order the medicine for me, she feels very ill-equipped to treat me. Instead, she referred me to the emergency department.
Normally, I would not go to the emergency department (ED). My health issue, at the moment, is not a life-threatening event. The ED will most likely tell me to follow-up with my doctor. And another spin around the merry-go-round I go.
I wonder how this is going to end. If my medical issue is not treated properly and completely, there is a possibility it will kill me. My body does not produce blood results which cause any concern from medical providers. My body is tired. It does as little as possible. Numbers will not elevate...and according to EDs and doctors who do not know me very well, if my blood work "looks" normal, then it is normal. Please disregard the person laying on the gurney clinging for life. Despite her skin looking a deathly green, she is "fine" because her blood work is normal.
I am sorry to hear that the doctors' attitude is so indifferent, I don't know what the reason could be. Maybe it is a lack of knowledge, or the protocols that regulate everything. It doesn't add up in my head..
ReplyDeleteIn any case, there are a few things I know for sure: God loves you very much. This love is beyond our comprehension. He knows everything, everything about us, our thoughts, what we feel, there are no secrets from Him. You are not alone, Jesus is not far away.
I can say that I have been researching this topic for years, and I have come to the conclusion that we must trust God 100%.
As I understand it, God allows bad things to happen so that we can be shaped into who He wants us to be. That also requires that He be first in our lives. And that is much harder to achieve than I ever thought. I'm not there yet. Maybe your situation is similar in that sense, I don't know.
I pray that God will cure this infection and that there will be no problems with it. Wishing you all the best! Everything will be fine just please hold on!
May Jesus Christ bless you!
hanging there…God is watching over you…we will all be praying for you!
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