I thought I’d give everyone a few snapshots into my crazy existence.
So apparently I’m on steroids now. Not the bicep, ab, shoulder kind, but the eyebrow, toenail, blood kind. You know those crazy long eyebrows guys over forty get? Well mine are on steroids – until they fall out next week. Guinness and Ripley’s are fighting over the photo rights to my toes.
One of the new meds I’m makes me retain water. And wouldn’t you know it, the doctors gave me too much. No big danger there, but it increased the amount of water I retained. After a few days I was like a water balloon. I couldn’t bend my fingers and could almost hear the water squishing around in my feet. I got medicine for it which worked. I went down 7 pounds right away.
I have been having some very busy dreams. The type of dreams that pick right up again after I wake up and fall asleep again in the middle of the night. They carry on through the entire night. Not the best way to restore oneself. One evening I was on a scavenger hunt and had to find and carry all these crazy clues. Another night I was overseeing people making tents and old time first century jewelry (I had just watched the Chosen) and I had to check every stitch, every bead, every piece of leather they used. It was exhausting. Luckily, I was nauseous the next night and asked for an anti nausea tablet. I took it and slept like a baby. I mentioned it to the nurse in the morning and it turns out the anti nausea tablet I took was actually an anti-psychotic that moonlights as anti nausea medicine. “It stills the voices in your head” the nurse told me. Didn’t know I was psychotic, but at least I got a solid night’s sleep and didn’t want to throw up.
I spoke to the doctor today about all my aches and pains (its amazing what you notice when you don’t have anything else to do except worry about plagues you) and she said that nothing I was experiencing was out of the ordinary. I am on track and progressing according to plan both inside and out. If these are easy days, I’m not looking forward to the weeks that follow
Brian-TY so much for turning your testing and healing process inside out to explain to those of us outside of it to understand how we might enter into the thick of it as we join you in prayer.
May your soul be made strong in this time of weakness-“when I am weak then I am strong”
May the next 3+ weeks be filled with His Presence in the midst of internal, physical chaos.
Appreciate you and your ministry of writing so well.
Your friend and brother in Christ, pastor dan