Song Dog Stalker
07-05-2009, 03:51 PM
I could really use your prayers. My biggest struggle right now is to ask for the help, it's a pride thing, I feel like I am burdening others when I tell them my troubles, but here goes.
I have been struggling for about 3 yrs with a mystery illness, it seems to have started from a nasty sinus infection but has proven to be more.
Mainly, I first noticed trouble when working as a Roto-Rooter Plumber that a particular job was making me sick (digging out an experimental septic system by hand, no real protection from the dust) and I would loose my lunch and become very weak.
A year or so later after trying several different increasingly less physical jobs it became apparent that I was going through cycles of about 3 mons. at a time where I would be at 70% of ability (good months) and less than 30% during the bad months/weeks.
I first went to the local doctor in Hamilton, MT to get antibiotics, but they didn't effect the cycle of 3mons sick and 3mons almost well in retrospect. I then started working through the VA system trying to get tests done just to determine my condition. I have been very impressed with the folks at the VA particularly at the Ft. Harrison VA Hospital. I have been tested for just about any condition you can imagine, but still to no avail.
More recently I moved back home to Oregon to help my father's recovery from a pretty bad head injury (bicycle accident) and it wasn't untill I had been in OR for a while that I realized how sick I truly was, and my worse health cycles lasted longer and became even more debilitating.
On my worst days, I have trouble getting around, it's as though my body lacks the "power" to move my muscles very well or for very long, as if I had a worn-out rechargeable battery that won't hold a good charge anymore.
On my good days, I can even do physical things, and most reciently I was able to do my own work again on my car (replaced clutch, rear struts, ignition switch) where as this time last year I had to get help from a friend JUST to change a CV joint and front disc breaks. (I normally do all my own work on my car)
I have had reciently some very good months, almost feeling close to 100%, and yet durring my car project, it took me 3x as long as normal but I could DO it (praise God!) and I have to pace myself at times.
I had a couple iffy days last 2 weeks and just figured I was working too hard, but today I could barely get out of bed.
I got as far as getting dressed and ready for church but then became completly exhausted.
Please pray for me to be more humble and let me let others help me more.
Please also pray for my condition to be restored, but if that is not God's will, at least to be with the doctors so they can diagnose my illness and treat it that I may be able to live a more normal productive life.
My family has been very supportive and helpful, and I am sure that God wants me to be here now, I am definatly here to learn more humility and to be less self-reliant as I can be to a fault.
Thank you for reading this, I have been reading many of the posts in The Angler's Chapel and I post a lot on the hunting forums, but I feel like I am still kind of new, and I want to get to know you all and let you get to know me better.
I am blessed to have found this site, it is great to find others who share my passion for the Lord and the Outdoors, especially hunting.
God bless you and keep you,
Dayn
I have been struggling for about 3 yrs with a mystery illness, it seems to have started from a nasty sinus infection but has proven to be more.
Mainly, I first noticed trouble when working as a Roto-Rooter Plumber that a particular job was making me sick (digging out an experimental septic system by hand, no real protection from the dust) and I would loose my lunch and become very weak.
A year or so later after trying several different increasingly less physical jobs it became apparent that I was going through cycles of about 3 mons. at a time where I would be at 70% of ability (good months) and less than 30% during the bad months/weeks.
I first went to the local doctor in Hamilton, MT to get antibiotics, but they didn't effect the cycle of 3mons sick and 3mons almost well in retrospect. I then started working through the VA system trying to get tests done just to determine my condition. I have been very impressed with the folks at the VA particularly at the Ft. Harrison VA Hospital. I have been tested for just about any condition you can imagine, but still to no avail.
More recently I moved back home to Oregon to help my father's recovery from a pretty bad head injury (bicycle accident) and it wasn't untill I had been in OR for a while that I realized how sick I truly was, and my worse health cycles lasted longer and became even more debilitating.
On my worst days, I have trouble getting around, it's as though my body lacks the "power" to move my muscles very well or for very long, as if I had a worn-out rechargeable battery that won't hold a good charge anymore.
On my good days, I can even do physical things, and most reciently I was able to do my own work again on my car (replaced clutch, rear struts, ignition switch) where as this time last year I had to get help from a friend JUST to change a CV joint and front disc breaks. (I normally do all my own work on my car)
I have had reciently some very good months, almost feeling close to 100%, and yet durring my car project, it took me 3x as long as normal but I could DO it (praise God!) and I have to pace myself at times.
I had a couple iffy days last 2 weeks and just figured I was working too hard, but today I could barely get out of bed.
I got as far as getting dressed and ready for church but then became completly exhausted.
Please pray for me to be more humble and let me let others help me more.
Please also pray for my condition to be restored, but if that is not God's will, at least to be with the doctors so they can diagnose my illness and treat it that I may be able to live a more normal productive life.
My family has been very supportive and helpful, and I am sure that God wants me to be here now, I am definatly here to learn more humility and to be less self-reliant as I can be to a fault.
Thank you for reading this, I have been reading many of the posts in The Angler's Chapel and I post a lot on the hunting forums, but I feel like I am still kind of new, and I want to get to know you all and let you get to know me better.
I am blessed to have found this site, it is great to find others who share my passion for the Lord and the Outdoors, especially hunting.
God bless you and keep you,
Dayn