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I'm not doing well. I was pretty weak yesterday morning and even weaker this morning. Both days I wonder if I would make it thru the day.
You can see my health problems in Pamela's recent post.
You're prayers are much appreciated.
Dennis
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I am praying for you Dennis. We love you. May God be with you.. in Jesus name,
Amen.
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You are always in my prayers Dennis.
Hugs,
Rene'
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Dennis
Praying you feel better soon
God bless
Wendy
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How are you doing Dennis, been praying for you, we love you brother 💕
In Christ, Pamela
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A little better today. I think the UTI is finally going away. The worse part was the drugs which really messed me up with brain fog and deep depression.
On June 14th 2017 I took just two prednisone pills and was bedridden for seven months! These prostrate drugs will also be in me until January but at least I'm not bedridden again and able to move around, but still kind of weak.
Food is a problem because I have to do no harm to my prostrate or kidneys. I'm very limited in what I can eat.
Thank you for your prayers everyone. I don't feel like I could die soon this morning.
Dennis
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I am so glad to hear you are doing better Dennis. Thank The Lord.
Yeah most of the drugs will mess you up. I’m moving around a bit but it’s exhausting. The pills they gave me I take one at 830 in the morning and another one 830 in the evening.They are huge, but I swallow them. I’m still seeing a doctor on the 16 for a checkup. Not my regular doctor but you take what you can get.
I’ve lost 13 lbs which is not a bad thing, I don’t think too much food is important anymore, I’m more interested in spiritual food 😁. I don’t feel like I will die soon either now, but only God knows, so we wait and pray for endurance and wisdom.
God Bless you all. In Christ, Pamela.
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Prayers for you for continuing improvement. I was on lots of drugs after car accident 6 years ago, they helped a lot but did mess me up for a while.
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Praying for Dennis and Pamela. So many here have poured out their lives as a witness to others and you have loved the Lord so well . One day we will all meet . In the mean time, I pray that your mortal bodies heal and you find peace and rest.
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I'm just not getting any better. It's not even safe for me to walk down and get the mail.
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I’m praying for you Dennis. I know how exhausting it can be. May God be with you.
We love you.
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Sorry to hear Dennis, hope you start to feel stronger soon.
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Dennis
Praying you feel better soon
God bless
Wendy
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Are you any better Dennis.
I saw the doctor this morning, my lungs are clear but I am enemic. That’s why I am so exhausted. I have to eat a healthy diet now until they do another round of tests in August. Our grandson is here, thank God, only for a week, but I am thankful and my sister and her family will be here in a day or two to care for me. God is so good.
I don’t know what comes next for any of us but I do know that whatever it is it is all of God and He will see us through one way or the other. Ray said death is a miracle but the dying , not so much fun. Remember it’s all for a great cause and purpose.
Psalm 112… praise the Lord, Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments.
We will overcome, I truly believe that. Trust in the name of the Lord and what a beautiful name it is, Jesus, Jehovah.
May God be with you all. In Christ, Pamela.Hang in there Dennis.
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I tested my blood iron yesterday and it did not even register. So I took an iron supplement (and a trace of copper from a bee pollen supplement) yesterday and again this morning. No difference yet but I'll continue. It could take a few more days to see any improvement.
I received two more blood iron test kits today and I test again Saturday or Sunday.
I am so sick of being sick.
Yes Pamela, may God be with us all. And thank you all for your prayers.
Dennis
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BTW, Pamela this is the best price I could find for a blood iron test kit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFTDPLFQ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFTDPLFQ)
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It’s very tiring , these afflictions. we will overcome, all whom God has predestinated. Just hang in there. For flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God. And it is with much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God. We know this would not be easy peasy and yes Dennis being sick all the time is exhausting.
I have been instructed not to take any supplements for iron until I have my other round of tests . In the meantime I am doing it with food. I made a big pot of soup
Containing all ingredients to raise hemoglobin.
Actually biggest concern are all the wildfires. Canada is burning. We just got notice that a wildfire outside Halifax is out of control. Would hate to be evacuated but I certainly know that nothing is out of control, nothing.That just makes my heart sing with joy. Every knee will bow, every eye will see and every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord. We will overcome because Christ overcame. It may be painful but only for a season. I know that none of you wants to go back into the world, this wicked world, no, no no. Wait for the Lord, the day of the Lord is the revealing and I really want to be there. How about you? Rest in the Lord.
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I'd just as soon be out of here but my son and granddaughter need me for now.
I cannot get rid of the last of this uti. Amazon's delivering a new supplement today. Hope it works.
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I pray it all works for you soon Dennis. This is so exhausting. God Bless You 💕
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Hi Dennis, Are you feeling any better ?
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Thank you for asking.
No, feeling worse than ever, but I just started taking Nitrofurantoin last night for my infection and it's side effects are making me nauseous, weak and short of breath. I need to take it seven days so six more days of this then it's over I hope.
I got off Finasteride a few weeks ago but it stays in you for 6 to 8 months. So I will have brain fog and depression until sometime in January. My prostrate is doing better without it using supplements.
They also gave me Dutasteride which I took for just 4 days. It gave me arthritis (which I've never had) and the arthritis will still be with me until sometime in January I hope.
This is teaching me to be more patient. So something good I also hope :)
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Thank you Dennis for all you do for us on this
forum, PSA 34:19.
Casey
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Thank you Casey.
I should have said that the nausea only lasts about 4 or 5 hours after taking the pill.
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Watched a Dr. Berg video and he said diuretics' make work shrinking a prostrate and Nitrofurantoin is a diuretic. Oh well.
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Praying you get well soon Dennis and I second Casey in thanks for all you do and especially under trials. It’s so difficult. May Our Lord be with you always. 💕
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Thank you.
I use test strips and yesterday mornings test showed about a 50% improvement. This mornings test showed no change from yesterday which is 48 hours total since starting the treatment and that concerns me.
I am so sick of being sick. Please pray this is over in five more days when the prescription runs out.
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It got a little better for the last two days but now it's getting worse. Prayers please.
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Yesterday morning both my kidneys started hurting. I called the doctors and they are doing a culture on a sample to determine a better antibiotic. Could take up to three days. But my right kidney is still hurts.
Google says: Nitrofurantoin Mono can build up to dangerous levels if your kidneys are already weak. When kidney function is low, the drug fails to concentrate in the urine to treat infections effectively and increases the risk of side effects.
So if I continue taking the drug I toast my kidneys. If I don't I'm back on supplements which have not worked well until I get a new antibiotic in a few more days.
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I’m praying for you Dennis. We love you.
In Christ, Pamela 💕
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Thank you Pamela. Most of the kidney pain has gone away.
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To all who need encouragement :
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever”. Pls 73:26
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I think of you always, believe me. I often wish I could do more; but prayer is all I have. Thank God. So no flesh should glory in his presence.
May God make the aches better with each passing day.
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Also, I had written a long post, I reconsidered when I recalled how living in a dysfunctional body is, which I am not out of the woods of yet. I know the wishing for death ( but consider the sensitive) of whom I was and really still am.
I wanted to simply say Dennis, I never really left BT, I stayed in the shadows because Ray’s death really hit hard. I am a lousy speaker and don’t feel confident about measuring my words. So, when I see you I’ll.. it all comes back.
Not only your son needs you.
The comforting word about death paper had people even thinking I’m a stone, unaffected. I partly was because that paper truly was comforting. Then I was with a series of very close deaths, a long tiring spell. I eventually crumbled given I was unwell too. To be honest, even my own mother’s passing found me worn out, tired and just eager to get the burial done and asked to be spared the devastation. There was no person left here anymore.
I don’t check in and write these things because for a 40yr old it sounds disparaging to the hearers. I think for many it’s difficult but understandable when one thinks the mature in age suffer an ache or two. I can’t handle it. In this whole world I have God and days like this when I’m in doubt, I get so confused and realise I truly could not go on without BT.
If I’ve offended, truly sincerely I am sorry. I won’t even proofread in case I delete like before.
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Also I do read scriptures and sometimes they just come to me, I spent near all my life reading the scriptures, many questions this website answered and I didn’t struggle at all 18 years ago. I still believe, I’m just feeling having laden at times.
Someone said, you really do want to live for Jesus and I dismissed it because I don’t debate nor intentionally reveal my beliefs. Ye shall know them by their friuit - I aspire to that. I sometimes think it’s all in my head (being called if I am, I try to not delve into election much because my life is already too hard. I’m not at all complaining, but I know what it means to be truly hated by household and the world. And I do not suggest at all I am without many errors. My favourite of scriptures; “chief among sinners”. That’s me.
Kindly remember me in your prayers. That’s all I need.
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Kindly remember me in your prayers. That’s all I need.
Beautifully said. Will do. Hugs
Rene'
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Thank you Rene.