The past 2 weeks

     I knew I was having a bad cycle, but the past 2 weeks all I have done is sleep, wake up with severe nausea and pain, take my medicine and go back to sleep. That's 2 weeks of my life I cannot get back but I also don't want to stay stuck in this cycle and miss all of the important milestones in my family's life. I think Hope has a really great 18th birthday. Coming up shortly will be Noah's 21st birthday, Our 20th wedding anniversary, Christmas, and then Elijah's 10th birthday. All very significant milestones. Everyone who knows me, knows I really like to do things big, to make everything as perfect as possible. I have learned how to pull back because the sicker I got, the less I was able to do.
     I really need your prayers for healing, for uplifting, and to be able to start a business online to help with my medical bills and to make these important milestones exceptional! If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear about it.
     Our home is falling apart and the more Clint tries to fix things, 10 other problems show up. He is such a good man, and he devotes everything he has to us, his family. To top that off, his devotion to his job makes everyone want him to take care of their IT problems and there is just never enough of him to go around. He never fusses or complains, he just does it. His job puts so much stress on him that it is beginning to affect his health, and having one sick parent is bad enough. He is such a humble, loving, and giving man; and people take advantage of him far too often. He knows he is being taken advantage of, but he never lets the people who do this see that he knows full well what they are doing.
     He has been given great discernment when it comes to business, he just doesn't have the venture capital to take it to the next level, Through the years, every time he has said a gas station would be perfect in this spot, or a car wash would be great here; he has seen those who could afford to, put the exact business in the exact spot and it flourished. He has also seen certain businesses open and knew it was a bad idea and within the first 3 years those businesses failed. I know together with his innate and difficultly learned sense of business and marketing combined with my God given abilities and our drive for success we can make the Town of Sterlington into the City of Sterlington.

Gotten Behind

     I am sorry I have not been keeping up. Since Saturday I have been in so much pain even on top of all of my pain meds that I have basically been sleeping most all day and all night. Waking up to take medicine, and to help deal with minor things. As I am typing this I can feel my pain skyrocketing out of control, hopefully some IV fluids will help a little with that. Pray for my family because all they can do is sit back and watch.
     Pray that I will be feeling better by Friday, my baby girl, Hope, will be 18. She said a few days ago,"Ya know, I might need to start applying for colleges," and yesterday she got an email from Tulane saying she was accepted, and she got a letter from LA Tech saying she has been accepted and another one saying she has been awarded a $16,000.00 scholarship. As brilliant and amazing as Noah is, he still had to apply for college, Hope is being recruited. Baylor even called me on my cell phone. Texas A&M and Case Western are recruiting her too, along with every branch of the military. She said she has to hide from the military recruiters. I am so proud of all my children and constant see where God is blessing them abundantly. the last 2 times we went to Granny's she prayed a double blessing over Hope, and Granny has such a close relationship with God that she has some really powerful prayer!
     Okay I can't take it anymore I have to go take some meds and sleep some more, please pray for me.

Thanks So Much,

Betsy

God, will you please heal me!

     I know the Bible tells us that God will not give us anything beyond what we can bare, but I am right at the edge of that and I don't want to fall off that cliff. The repercussions from Saturday are worse pain today. I slept most of the day yesterday missing some extremely important calls. Now I am awakened at 3am from my severe pain. I know I cannot put another bite of food in my mouth for a while, so please pray for the strength from God to just say "No Thank You" to food. My body has been through so much throughout this illness and it is really catching up with me. I have so much I need to do this week, from teaching Elijah to getting ready for this Town of Sterlington Garage sale this Saturday. Anything we can earn will be so helpful, I get that everyone has their own financial issues, from people making no more than us to people making 3 times our salary due to improper budgeting. I am amazed what Clint can do with our income and how he can calm and put everyone he comes across at ease. The amount of work and quality of work he does is truly deserving of an increase in salary and I pray that he gets that, I also want to learn how to make income online during the hours I am coherent and not teaching Elijah or spending time with my family.
      I have to say a very special thank you to my sister-in-law, Kim. She is here every week, sometimes every day and if there is a mess she cleans it. She doesn't ask for anything in return, she is just here for me whenever I need her and whatever I need her for. She hasn't always made the best choices in life, but when it comes down to it she is here for our family and I don't know how we would do it without her! From the depths of my soul Thank You Kim, we love you so much and I pray that God heaps a double blessing on you because you have been such a blessing to us.

This is getting old

Before getting my sister-in-law, Kim's birthday dinner and cake ready, I had a really bad day. I am so used to being too sick to eat but when I take my nausea medication I feel a little better and realize I am starving. Now for most of you eating is a way of life, it's your nourishment, your energy, your socialization. For me eating is literally killing me. I have to rely upon TPN for my nourishment. I just did something really stupid last night I had a big soft pretzel and some cheese sticks. Something happened that never happened before, and if there was a half decent hospital around here I would have gone straight to the ER. I got so sick my stomach inverted. It hurt insanely bad. But i made it through the day and I think I have gotten back to the point, no food, no matter how good is worth my life. Thank God and my family I was able to get through the day and enjoy my family. I know I am going to be hurting for a while which will remind me not to put any food in my mouth. Right now I have to go take my meds so I will try to write again tomorrow.