I want to talk about a situation that happened to me this week.
Monday morning I woke up and after spending time with God. I didn’t feel so great, I started getting another migraine but this one was different. I felt dizzy and started vomiting immediately. And was getting horrible muscle spasms.
I was not running a fever so I knew it wasn’t a virus.
I immediately called my physician thinking he could prescribe something over the phone. But that wasn’t the case. When I spoke to the nurse she said I was having unusual symptoms and that I needed to come in right away.
My physician office is 70 miles away. My thought was there was no way I could drive that alone, unfortunately all the people I called were unable to help me. So I prayed for God to watch over me and got ready to make the trip alone.
When I got to the doctors office I seen him immediately and he sent me immediately to the emergency room. When I got there they took me straight back. I knew something serious had to be going on, they had thought I had a stroke or something.
Within the first half hour I had a IV put in and was taken to get a ct-scan of my brain.
Under normal circumstances I would have been scared to death, but when you know God has your back it’s a whole different story.
After tons of blood work and the brain scan they found the problem, but little did I know how hard it would be to fix.
My sodium lever was in the low 100’s normal is 150. The dr said that I should not be sitting there talking to him right now, most people would be confused and slurring the speech. And he didn’t even know how I was able to drive myself over 60 miles and be here, most would need an ambulance.
I told him, that would be because God has my back.
After being admitted they did more blood work and a MRI of my brain. They found lesions on my brain and they didn’t know if it was the start of Multiple sclerosis. That startled me, I have had one very good friend pass away from MS and a few more that have it.
They said they would have a Neurologist look at my scans and go from there. I simply prayed that the almighty father would not have me go through that struggle.
They neurologist came in the talked to me and said the lesions were caused my chronic migraines and that we need to get these migraines under better control.
Oh wait it gets worse. They also found a growth in the artery in my neck. that needed attention. A Pediatric Ear Nose and Throat dr was the one on call this week. Ok so, I was like really? They referred me to a ENT to get surgery scheduled.
The problem end up being that they could not get my sodium level up, it kept dropping. It would rise with the sodium in my IV but as soon as the IV bag was empty my sodium level would start dropping again.
It took them 2 days to get my sodium level up enough so I would feel human again. For some reason my body was dumping salt as fast they put it in.
They ended up giving pure salt tablets to get my salt levels to stay level. Not in normal range but to stay set.
It ended up being a reaction to the blood pressure pills I was on. for some reason they were sending my brain the messages to dump the salt.
They changed my blood pressure medicine and my migraine medication again. And things started looking better.
You just never know what’s going to happen and when. I’m just Glad God had my back through all of this.
From Pity to Praise 