Prayer Request
I don’t normally post prayer requests here. I have community groups for that, but I need to reach as many people as possible to pray for my sister right now.
My sister, Stephanie, needs prayers urgently.
She has rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and a few other auto-immune issues including no spleen. The last few weeks she’s had severe memory loss and a list of symptoms so long I can’t list them all. She’s even fell a couple times and hurt herself and can’t remember it. My other sister, Amber, lives with her to help take care of her because at this point she is so bad she can not live alone. Not long ago Amber found Stephanie on the floor of the bathroom with blood everywhere. Amber had to clean her up and stuff. Later Stephanie asked Amber why there was blood on her shirt. When Amber told her, she was in shock. She didn’t even remember a fall so bad that it caused blood to be every where.
Anyway, Thursday morning when Amber got up Stephanie was asleep on the living room floor. It looked like she had fell because the coffee table was moved like she had fell against it. Amber got her woke up enough to get her up on the couch. Stephanie slept all day and ended up sleeping 18 hours straight until she woke up a little bit ago. Amber called me hysterical around 2 in the morning her time because Stephanie could not walk at all. The skin on her face and her lips were grayish and her eyeballs look swollen.
Please pray for God’s touch on Stephanie and Amber. They live in Georgia. I’m in Utah and mom is in California. There isn’t a whole lot we can do from here other than we did call on a conference call and tell Stephanie she had two choices.
Pray for the kids too. Stephanie has two beautiful boys who need her. The 8 year old is in bed and doesn’t know yet what has happened, but the 13 year old is up and crying because he’s scared to death he’s going to lose her.
They didn’t end up taking Stephanie to the hospital last night. By the time Amber got my brother awake and over there to help her into the car, Stephanie was doing better. The swelling was down and the color was back in her face. However, she was still doing pretty bad. They decided that because there were 4 kids in the house that had nobody to come watch them, to wait until this morning after they got the kids off to school.
So they took her in this morning and they’ve been there most the day. Her white blood cell count is 38,000. Other than that, they can not find anything wrong with her. They’ve done an EKG and CT scan and didn’t find anything wrong. She’s basically delirious right now also. Amber said her eyes were rolling in the back of her head. At one point she was even talking to Andrew in the direction of an empty part of the room. For those that don’t know, Andrew is my son and in Utah with me. She hasn’t seen him since April. They did decide to admit her. Right now she doesn’t even know she’s been admitted because she’s that out of it.
Thank you for all of your prayers and support.
Comments
Wow Shannon – I’m praying now and will continue to pray.
Hi Shannon, My prayers are with you and Amber and Stephanie, and of course your mom. I always wish I was closer at times like this, but we will have to settle for prayers. Please keep me posted. Love you sweetie.
I’m so sorry to hear of your family crisis; I only wish I could find the words to comfort you ~
I do want you to know thou, you and your family are in my prayers ~
God Bless . . .
Sorry to hear everything that your family is going through with your sister right now Shannon! I just said a prayer and will continue to pray for her and pray for the doctors that they will know what is wrong with her.
Hugs!
Tish
I’m sorry to hear of this crisis. I’m praying for your family and that the doctors will figure this out.
Hi, I am Shannon’s mom in California. Leaving Georgia almost three months ago to come here to take care of my aged parents was one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make. Leaving there knowing that Stephanie could, at any time, be back in the hospital due to all the complications that has plagued her life since the rheumatoid took control of her body. For those of you who think that rheumatoid arthritis is as simple as having trouble opening the jelly jar, think again. It is a devastating disease that can not only destroy your mobility but it can cause the development of a multiplicity of organ destroying problems that can lead to death. Those who take for granted when they get the common cold, that will be gone in a few days, do not realize that there are millions of people in this world that something as simple as a common cold can kill them. Being on the West Coast when my daughter is in the hospital on the East Coast is an utterly nerve racking experience. Unfortunately, at this moment in time my parents can not live alone and I must be here. We had a family caucus before I left Georgia and even Stephanie felt that it was important that I go to California to take care of my parents. I thank God every day that Amber is there doing a marvelous job taking care of her sister. I also give thanks for the fact that all of my children put the care of other family members above their own needs. They are a blessing and have been my rocks since the sudden death of their father and love of my love. Thank you, Shannon, for always giving level headed advise and trusting God for the proper outcome and always reminding us “Who’s in control?” On top of all this my father had a very bad episode with his heart yesterday and for a while there I thought he would be in the hospital, too. Please, keep up the prayer vigil and thank you all!
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