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CRPS - Week 2 Therapy - God and His amazing tender mercies

God is so good to inspire people and doctors to know how to treat our bodies!

Week 2 of therapy brings about many tender mercies from God.  I can see Him everywhere and every day.  He is so merciful and kind!

Therapy went really well this week!  There are so many different ways they are working on training the vagus nerve.  Every therapy is meant to calm the nerve or help it know how to send the correct signals to the body.  It's so amazing!!  I'm so thankful to all the people who have spent hours on end studying the vagus nerve and how it works.

Abree was able to get down to 0 pain on one of the therapies and hold it for a couple of hours.  The light in her eyes came back!!  

Isn't it crazy how in tune our bodies our?!  When something is out of wack with our body it shows and a lot of time it shows in our spirit.   I knew she was struggling but seeing the light come back into her eyes helped me even more know we are in the right place!

We've been making friends and getting to know others at the clinic.  I love that the other patients feel like we've known them our whole life already.  Abree came out of therapy one day and just said, "I feel like I've known [so and so].  She is just so familiar to me!"  And I feel the same way about a lot of the patients and families we've met.

I love getting to know everyone!  I love everyone's stories!  My heart breaks for the suffering they have gone through, but so excited to be there with them as they find hope again in their lives.  I am finding healing in all of this as well.

I feel like we're home being at the clinic and at the house we are renting.  I haven't felt so right about being somewhere in a long time. It's crazy to feel so at peace amid the trial of being split up as a family for the next few months.  But it is such a tender mercy for me.  The peace helps the burden of the trial feel lighter.

Seeing and recognizing God during this is helping me better understand how the people of Alma felt when they said their burdens were lightened. 

Mosiah 24:15 

"And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord."

God doesn't always take away the trial, but he will always help us through it.  

Look for to Him in the storm!!  Don't let the wind and waves distract you and make you take your eyes off of Him.  He can and will calm the storm.  It will come in different ways, but it will come!


A few pictures of Abree and I this week:





Comments

jeanine said…
Love you! You are such a light!
March 9, 2023 at 3:45 PM
jeanine said…
Love you! You have always been such a light!
March 9, 2023 at 3:47 PM
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