Wow, it's been 8 months since the confusion started with my health. It feels like yesterday, but I marvel at the Lord sustaining me so readily and so mightily thru this trial regardless of the storm. It has truly been a lesson in the power of remaining in Faith towards Him. There were times when I felt I could have gone mad mentally from the questions, set backs, and lack of answers yet thru His might I am gaining more and more clarity each day. So here we are today several emergency room visits, three cardiologist, three medical doctors, two neurologist and one Fixed and capable God later I now know more of what has been going on and what might have potentially triggered the TIA back in the winter of 2011.
My husband and I are now with a very wonderful team of fresher faces that are trying to get to the bottom of my blood pressure crisis, chest pain, speech issues, and migraine frequency. And after multiple tests, lots of blood work, and bouts with exhaustion the latest finding is a missed PFO. This is great to finally know about it but it was hard to believe it went undetected so long since I had a heart murmur most of my childhood and was born with a hole in the lung. However, the more I learn about the connection between PFO and chronic migraines the more I realize it is the grace of God that allowed the connections to be formed at all.
Right now they are running several more test to verify the BP crisis have not been the result of the body dealing with any other form of disease, but the good news is if necessary the latest Dr. I am seeing will attempt closure of the hole if it comes down to it. That will hopefully alleviate some of the forms of pain I have been in. But he is being careful and proceeding slowly. Since I developed heart disease at a fairly young age, he is not interested in touching the heart muscle until some other things come to light. So I am taking it day to day.
As is the case with many people who have PFO's that are not extremely large they have started aspirin therapy in addition to my other drug therapies. I have noted improvements in my cholesterol numbers and pressure issues and have even found the frequency of the head pain to have slowed a bit. All things I cannot express how thankful to God I am about. So here I stand waiting, working on trusting, and appreciative. Recognizing more and more what is truly important in life and that is preparation for the life that is eternal. My husband and children have been an amazing support system thru out this nightmare and I could not have come this far without their love, support, and strength. God has been so good to me for giving me these precious Jules.
Be strong all, be courageous, this life is temporary there is something better for those who have Faith. There's something wonderful if we continue to cling to the Father. Praying for you friends!
1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
