Friday, January 26, 2007

This is really just a prayer request. Of course, all of my updates are prayer requests, but this one has a little more ugency with it.

Rex has had a really hard week this week. He has been in quite a bit of pain around the clock. At the beginning of the month, we and his oncologist thought that it was consistent with gallbladder trouble; then, he had the ultrasound that didn't show gall stones. So, Rex, in his mind, reverted his thinking to the cancer causing the pain. Now, he has decided that his gallbladder is the culprit of most, if not all, of his pain. When we first thought that the problem was his gallbladder, he started doing gallbladder flushes daily sometimes twice daily; his pain level went from an 8 to around 2-4 and even no pain at times. Then, after the ultrasound, he quit doing the flushes and his pain increased again to a consistent level of 8. So, whether his gallbladder is involved or not, the flush was helping.

Since everything is connected, when one part of our body is out of sync, it affects neighboring body functions. The excessive bile being produced is affecting his acid reflux which adds to his discomfort and is not good considering he had cancer in his esophagus (which commonly afflicts people with acid reflux). As he is trying to cleanse his gall bladder and empower his body with massive doses of vitamin C, his body is resisting because of the side effect of constipation from his pain medicine. At this point, everything he eats is bothering him now, producing pain and nausea. Then, he doesn't want to eat, and he is weak from not nourishing his body.

On top of that, Rex' job (which only has about 10 employees in their branch) is more demanding these days. They just recently lost two of their employees, which has put a bigger load on the rest of them. He needs to just have several days where he can get his body back in sync and functioning better, but it's hard when he really can't take more than a day here and there which he has had to do the last couple of weeks just so he can function the rest of the week.

I ask you to pray for his strength as he is going to try to work today (he stayed home yesterday and felt lousy all day and really felt lousy this morning too); please pray for their office to have a time blessing; pray for God to show us what to do to get Rex' body functioning better. Pray for Rex to be encouraged today.

As always, thank you for caring for us and praying for Rex so consistently,

Donna Meadows