Hello everyone,
I am so sorry I have let my blog lay silent for so long but I cannot stay quiet any longer. God is doing huge things in our lives and I have a feeling my FaceBook and Twitter are going to blow up because of it. First and my most important priority, Hope is Graduating Valedictorian at SHS and if you are reading this and we need to send you an invitation, mostly for the beautiful pictures, I seem to have lost all of my extended family and dear friend's addresses and could really use some help. You can send them privately to my email, thebetsybabe@gmail.com. I am counting on you for helping me please take a minute while you are reading this to stop and do that. I know if I don't do something like that right away I am going to forget. I will also need them for baby showers coming up for my first granddaughter. I know, I can't believe it either, I am going to be a Grandmother! I suppose that means people need to stop calling my daughter my sister, Nah that's okay. God woke me up about an hour ago so full of excitement so I know it's more than graduation coming up. If you want to know more, you're just gonna have to keep up and so am I!
My illness has really been beating me the last several months. I have missed days, even weeks, but I have a feeling very soon that God is finally going to beat my illness once and for all. By the time I started my iron infusions, every week for 8 weeks, my iron level was at complete zero. They don't normally do a bone marrow biopsy when the only red flag is low iron but because most of my other bloodwork was just above or just barely below the bottom of normal range Dr. Gallahager asked if we could do one. That biopsy showed that my iron was at zero, complete zero, which explained why I was sleeping two or three days at a time and having severe muscle cramps and other issues. I don't know how I was functioning at all along with my pain, nausea, vomiting, migraines and all of my other symptoms; bur by the grace of God! Due to my iron being at absolute zero, my bone marrow had small striations or lines of scars, because my bone marrow was working so hard to make my blood without iron. I had no idea what the side effects were like rapid weight gain and swelling of the face, hands, feet, legs, and arms along with others. Anyway in 8 weeks I blew up like a balloon gaining 30-40 pounds and feeling the stretching of my skin in all of the places I am still swollen.
On top of that, I decided to go back to school online in business. It is not going so good with all of my sleeping and other issues with my illness. Pray that I finish this semester strong, please. I have a huge list of assignments due this week, but Hope is my priority right now.
I pray everyone has a wonderful day and as you pray for me, know I am praying for everyone who reads this that God will meet you where your needs are! I can't wait to see what God is going to do today! Can you!
