MIA

So I have been missing in action the past few weeks. It has been two weeks of emotional roller coaster doctor appointments. I will spare you the nitty gritty details, but in a nutshell I have been having recurring symptoms for the past 6-7 months. If I can help it, I would rather not go to the doctor... such a hassle, but my loving husband put his foot down a few weeks ago. He took the day off and literally drove me to the doctor. Thus began all the testing to figure out what is causing my various symptoms. So far all we know is that something is amiss. My blood work has shown low lymphocytes and high antinuclear antibodies. Yeah, I am thinking the same thing you are. What does that mean? I am still trying to figure that out. The low lymphocytes results led to other blood tests which showed the high antinuclear antibodies. Apparently that high ANA count indicates lupus, an autoimmune disease. But in my limited internet research, I have learned that those numbers could be caused by other things as well. I won't see the rheumotologist until early May, so I won't get definitive answers until then. Whatever it is, something is going on and we need to figure out what that something is and deal with it. I am doing okay, just dealing with chronic fatigue. After the initial shock of something showing up on my blood work, I am handling the emotional side of things better than I expected I would. In the past two weeks I have had two sets of blood work done, an ultrasound, a HIDA scan (which lasted an hour and a half - blah), and a CT scan. Next week I will have an endoscopy. NOT looking forward to that at all. Here are some prayer requests...

*that the Lord will give me peace
*that I would be able to give my anxiety to the Lord
*wisdom for the doctors and for Gabe and I as we work to figure this out
*that all these appointments, sitters, and my own fatigue would not affect my children negatively

I will be back later today or this weekend with some new,normal posts. I have a lot to catch up on. 'Til then.....