We began our week starting way to many things! Last Saturday we sat with nothing pressing to do! Probably the first in months!! So what better then refinish our living room's hardwood floor. We tore up the house planning for this to be a big day of craziness, but before the weekend was over I planned to have things back together with our living room looking much better!! WE WERE REALLY WRONG! After realizing we had put the polyurethane on incorrectly we had to rent the floor sander again and tear the floor up again! I say it was tough work, but really Jeremy did all the work, my work was just trying to survive working around the disaster our house was in and trying to help Jeremy not want to throw the sander out he living room window!!Lets just say that was just the beginning of a week that was going downhill real quick!
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| Me Playing while Jeremy Works!! |
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Not surprised that the puzzle I put together
with Abby Lynn was missing pieces! |
Monday we decided to take the advice of a Dr. who saw Alisha for the first time. We made some drastic changes to her diet and starting Tuesday morning she woke up with her headache at a 10. She began throwing up and we soon realized it was migraines she was having. As her headache rose her mental state grew worse and worse. We had seen such great strides the week before and over the next 4 days we saw her go down hill quick! Wednesday we met with a DO. This is a medical Dr. who uses manipulation of the body. He understood and contributed to the diagnoses we had been given by our A.K. and felt we were headed in such a good direction! He was excited to be a part and hopefully be able to be a piece of the puzzle that would help Alisha. This was good, because so far the medical world has said it is mental because they couldn't find anything wrong physically!
As the week went on she continued to go down hill. She was taking a shower and called because the water had gotten cold. I double checked the temp before changing the shower and it was Hot! I told her not to touch the cold or hot and to quickly shower and get out. She was feeling awful, threw up once in the shower then got out and dropped off. When she woke up she couldn't walk! From her waist down her legs would not work. We waited about an hour then texted our AK who has been most helpful with what has been going on! He suggested us try juice and found that she was really low in her blood sugar. She also had a few minutes here and there where she was not able to hear, and once she was chewing her gum and she suddenly lost the ability to taste! It was back 5 minutes later!!
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| Welcome Home!! |
We began the week thinking we had a great plan! We thought we would have a new floor, way better diet and a daughter who was a week closer to being better! We were wrong, but our floor is almost finished and we took Alisha off the diet tonight and gave her a cheeseburger and lemonade and her headache is down to a two and she has had a clear mind and has been herself with a few little glitches here and there!
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| We need to fire the maid! |
I wish I could explain what was going on! I wish it made since, I wish one of the Dr's I have seen would have a magic cure, Shoot, I wish one of them would be able to understand what was going on in our daughters body, but so far the Neurologist, psychologist, ER, MD, OD, AK, Concusion clinics and Chiropractors are only able to understand little pieces of the Puzzle! Then Jeremy and I have had to watch Alisha and see if what we are hearing lines up with who our daughter is and what is going on with her body! We know there is allot of things we could do, but we also know Alisha is handling almost as much as she physically or mentally can!
While it's a huge mess around here, we are extremely blessed! As I drove in the freshly fallen snow this morning I was listening to a devotional about our Savior! I was reminded of the high price he paid so that we could be His, so that we could be whole, so we could know forgiveness! While our life seems to be messy and missing pieces right now I am confident that, Our Heavenly Father is working this all for good in our lives!!
There ya go! Keep us in your prayers!!
1.Pray for wisdom (so we don't kill the poor girl)
2.Pray for Patience
3.Pray for Healing
We are thankful for
1. Running water (without water we would smell like our week!)
2.Strength to press on
3. Family and friends who continue to show they care!
4. Flexible schedules with our business and me being a stay at home mom!
When we all got ready to leave, Jeremy sat all the kids down and told the kids how we usually go off for a little get away weekend, but this year, thought we all needed a break! He then told the kids the "Key" to making this trip a wonderful memory is that we all decide to "look out for the needs of each other over our own!" Jeremy reminded me that it would be really hard work and we would have to be really patient, but in the end we would have great memories!
Always sickening when you realize you have been looking out for yourself and have lost sight of really looking out for the needs of others. These last 7 weeks have shaken us hard! God knew I needed this reminder! While I have reminded allot of friends, this time I needed it myself that, "I will not find true joy in my life or marriage until I learn that it really is more precious to give then to receive!!" 
