Thank You for Your Prayers
By David J. Stewart
I very much thank all of those who pray for me and this needful ministry. My
health problems are the same. My health afflictions and personal hardships
have been worse than death (that I've suffered since 2004 when my neck pain
began). I have walked in Job's shoes and fully understand Job 10:1
where Job cried, “My soul is weary of my life.”
Albeit, God who raises the dead has lifted me up. You cannot be resurrected until you first die my friend. If you are going through difficult times, know that God who raises the dead will also raise you up.
My body wouldn't let me take Gabapentin anymore, breaking out in chest itching. I've been taking 300 mg daily of Lyrica instead to cope with my peripheral neuropathy (burning, tingling, puffiness and pain in my arms and legs). It alleviates my symptoms by over 50% for which I am grateful. The 120-160 mg. daily of Oxycontin is a God-send. It really kills the neck pain (by about 70%). Unfortunately, it doesn't work all the time. As my day progresses the pain gets worse. The more I do the more it starts becoming overwhelming. Often I just have to go lay down and take 60 mg. of Oxycontin at once. I have to watch my diet and eat plenty of vegetables and fiber to prevent dehydration from the opiate-based pain killers.
Having said that, I've finally started cooking again after a long battle with depression. When I came back from my second neck surgery in April-May of 2010 and my arms felt doubled in size, I felt suicidal. It's a whole new way of life when your arms feel twice their previous normal size. My arms still feel puffed up but I've gotten used to it. Keep this in mind if something like this ever happens to you... you WILL adjust and become accustomed to the weird feeling, I assure you. If we were born with puffed-up-feeling-arms, we'd never know it was abnormal. It's all in the mind.
I cooked 19 delicious egg rolls the other day. My old recipe wasn't anywhere near as good, so I'm updating it with the new one. Check out the photo of my egg rolls that I made on February 6, 2012. Don't eat your monitor! Here's my new recipe that I know you'll love!!! God bless you all. I truly do love you all, whoever you may be (enemies included), and I want to share my entire life with you as much as possible. You are loved.
Psalms 142:7, “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”
