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Please send up prayers for my 14yo God-daughter .. she just started high school this year and has developed some pretty bad health issues (with such bad leg pains she's in a wheelchair for the past 2 weeks). The docs don't know what's causing all this and it's pretty tough on her and the family ....
Please raise them up in prayer!
UPDATE 11/3/09:
Just got an email from my friend and they STILL DON'T know what's causing the loss of use in Katherine's left leg and minimal use of her right leg ... they have a test on Thursday, 11/5 which may elucidate the problem ...
Please continue your prayers for this sweet kid and her family (this is my same friend who 7 years ago had a baby - Katherine's sister -- who was born at less than 30 weeks and was not quite the size of a Hershey's chocolate bar ... they have been thru the wringer and this is just so hard for them ....)
UPDATE #2: 11/06/09:
Here's what I just got from my friend:
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Greetings everyone,
Thank you for the overwhelming prayers, thoughts and sacrifices offered on behalf of Katherine and our family. You all have surrounded and blanketed us in prayer, which we felt all throughout the day yesterday, and are so grateful to have from our community of prayer warriors.
Katherine had her medical tests, and while preliminary results did not provide us with 'answers,' their result was positive in that the neurologist who administered the tests remarked, "this is good that she doesn't have any nerve and muscle damage." So, he will turn over his findings to Katherine's neurologist, and we wait to hear from him as to the next steps.
On a very positive note, Katherine went to rehabilitation physical therapy in the afternoon (and her Dad has been her great coach at home!) and she has made great progress in the last two weeks. When I think of 'great progress,' I envision huge strides being taken, but at our level, being able to bend her knee an additional fraction of inch, or turn the stationary bike one rotation (when she couldn't do that last week) are the great strides we celebrate. She also stood up, supported by her two therapists, for five minutes :)
Again, I/we cannot relay to you how powerful your prayers and actions have been to us. A common saying that we all hear at times like "God doesn't give you more than you can handle." Well, I've learned differently. A very young and wise priest once shared in his homily, "God doesn't give you more than you can handle? Oh yes, He does." And he went on to explain, more eliquolently than I ever could...because in doing so, He allows us to call upon one another and build a larger, stronger community in Him. In joining with us our time of trial, you have built up this Godly community, and have made the challenges for us more bearable. We trust that in God's time and plan, His will, will be done. We thank you for joining us along the path to witness, andto do His greater work here on earth.
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Praying, Mary! I do hope this family can find some answers and provide some relief for your God-daughter soon! How frightening and difficult this must be for all of them!
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Praying for her, Mary.
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Praying, Mary. Sounds very stressful for all involved.
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Praying, Mary.
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praying, Mary. we know someone who went through/is going through similar problems. i hope they figure out what's going on asap. our friend's issues took a couple of years to figure out, lots of testing, etc. please keep us posted.
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praying for her and her family.
this kind of reminds me of two homeschooling families we knew who had a similar situation. In both cases it turned out to be advanced Lymes Disease.
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Adding my prayers! Doesn't your heart just pull extra hard for those god-children the Lord has blessed us with? 
Many blessings to her.
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Praying!
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praying...
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sending prayers....
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Praying Mary.
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Maddie wrote:
praying for her and her family.
this kind of reminds me of two homeschooling families we knew who had a similar situation. In both cases it turned out to be advanced Lymes Disease. |
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This is what immediatley came to my mind too. From what I understand there are also other Lyme-like pathogens (not sure if that is the proper term) that may not test postive on a standard lyme's test.
My prayers for this young lady.
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Prayers, Mary, from a mom of one who knows what that is like.....
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Update in original post ...
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Mary, I'll continue praying.
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Continuing prayers for this family! May they find answers!
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I'm glad for the update, Mary! How difficult for this family! I know half the battle is just figuring out what is going on!!! I will continue to pray!
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Praying here Mary.
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