Asking for SoWaller's Prayers

Beach Fanatic

Jul 31, '07 · 11:08 PM33,495

Hi Everyone!

I usually keep all this to myself, but I'm overwhelmed and need your prayers and thoughts. :blush:

Over the past 15 years I've battled with Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue syndrome. I have tried many things....some worked and some were a waste of time and money. It's hard for people around you to understand, as one day you may be on top of the world and the next three days or more you can't move from the bed to the bathroom. :idontno:

It is sometimes even harder to get a physician to believe you. :confused:

Fortunately I have had some good Doctors.

Fibromyalgia is a burning painful feeling in your muscles. This makes it hard to pickup things and to move your limbs without a lot of pain. CFS is debillitating and the most frustrating! Usually comes with a cough you can't seem to get rid of, intense fatigue, low grade fever, need for sleep, sleep, sleep. BUT also includes insomnia....that's the double edge sword about CFS.

So it you don't see me very much at the Cafe you'll know I'm at home wishing I could greet you. I hate this because I love working at night ans seeing all my :wave:

SoWal friends. I don't really want to change to lunch, but we'll see. My Doctor says I need to stop at 5:00 p.m. and start my evening of rest. :yikes:

Okay everyone who knows how hard it is to stop at 5:00 in the afternoon raise your hand. :lolabove:

I thought so!!!!

I :wub:

you all!
ItzKatzTime
:wave:

Kat:roll:

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Beach FanaticAuthor

Aug 15, '07 · 5:37 PM#77

Thank you Kat!!!! It was an old friend from when sarafunn was in elementary school. We had worked on fund raising together. She was good at keeping up and called every once in a while to catch up even though our girls went on to other schools. Apparently, she had a bad stroke a few years ago (I though she had moved up to her home in MI, which she adored) and never really got better. That led to more small strokes and she finally succumbed to a heart attack...she had just turned 55. The blessing...her daughter had married and she told me she was expecting !!! I hugged her father and told him how happy I was about him being a grandfather! He is over the moon and can't wait to spoil it rotten! ;-) I have had two of these funerals (friends) this summer and it is just so alarming and sad.

Miss Kitty you are in my prayer closet with me. I keep adding pictures and items that I didn't take a picture of...too personal, but here's a little bit of it! It helps me just to know it's there....although I have slept in there.

Beach Fanatic

Aug 15, '07 · 8:47 PM#78

Prayers to Kat and Kitty and your friends' families too. :wub:

Edited Aug 15, '07 · 8:49 PM

Beach FanaticAuthor

Aug 17, '07 · 8:25 PM#79

Prayers to Kat and Kitty and your friends' families too.

Thank you seacrestkristi....please keep on praying! Your words mean so much.

kat

SoWal Guide

Aug 20, '07 · 2:29 PM#80

hi kat - just sending good thoughts your way. hope you are feeling better these days... take care of yourself! :wub:

Beach FanaticAuthor

Aug 25, '07 · 9:22 PM#81

My dear friends....I need your prayers more then ever now. The winds are blowing in a big change for me.......and I need to be stronger then I've ever been before. Today I have cried the whole day....and I think I will cry a lot more. I will be off the board for a while, but please remember me. I love you all.

:wub:

Kat

bean

Aug 25, '07 · 9:31 PM#82

My dear friends....I need your prayers more then ever now. The winds are blowing in a big change for me.......and I need to be stronger then I've ever been before. Today I have cried the whole day....and I think I will cry a lot more. I will be off the board for a while, but please remember me. I love you all.

Kat

I'm sorry for whatever you're going through and I will be praying for you Kat. :wub:

Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname

Aug 25, '07 · 9:33 PM#83

I'm sorry for whatever you're going through and I will be praying for you Kat.

Me too, Kat. I hope everything will be ok for you.

beats on hood

Aug 25, '07 · 9:33 PM#84

I do believe in the power of prayer. I truly believe that our collective prayers can make a difference for you. I know that they did at a critical time in my life when I was hospitalized for two months to avoid a miscarriage. Take care, gull.

SoWal Insider

Aug 25, '07 · 11:21 PM#85

Be strong. Please take care of yourself. :wub:

Beach Fanatic

Aug 25, '07 · 11:29 PM#86

Hi Kat-
We are all here for you and the prayers are there, but if there is anything else we can do...PLEASE just ask!!! We :wub:

you!
Al

beats on hood

Aug 25, '07 · 11:29 PM#87

Be strong. Please take care of yourself.

Hey, gull! R U OK, with the flooding and all up there?

SoWal Insider

Aug 25, '07 · 11:42 PM#88

Hey, gull! R U OK, with the flooding and all up there?

We are fine. Our biggest problem was being w/o cable/internet!! I thought I was gonna die. :blush:

Lots of old trees down, many homes & businesses w/o power, but we're fine. I'm waiting to hear from Lindatat. They were hit much harder.
Thanks for asking.

Beach Fanatic

Aug 26, '07 · 12:09 AM#89

Kat....I know you can feel all the love for you on this thread. If I can help you in any way please let me know.

Love and Peace :wub:

SoWal Expert

Aug 26, '07 · 1:28 AM#90

Kat--sending prayers your way. :wub:

Beach FanaticAuthor

Aug 27, '07 · 12:55 PM#91

I AM back......I had a couple of days to recoup....think, and write. I want to thank all my SoWal friends for their sweet PMs and posts.

Something jdarg wrote me made me realize pulling away was not the answer.
She said I needed to stay on the board...where people love me and are worried. Then of course Lightworker said that she knew I could feel the love
for me on this thread. And they are both right!!!!

Thank you all....gotta run to the cafe.

Kat

P.S. Minnie IM'd me asking if I had won the $315 million lotto and had run away!:funn:

Beach Fanatic

Aug 29, '07 · 12:39 AM#92

Kat...when you read this, take a deep breath ....then let it out ....and feel peace.

L :wub:

Beach Fanatic

Aug 29, '07 · 3:55 AM#93

Kat: Whatever it is, hang in there (and here on the board) and take care of yourself. You know that you're getting lots of prayers! :wub:

Beach FanaticAuthor

Aug 31, '07 · 8:58 PM#94

Kat: Whatever it is, hang in there (and here on the board) and take care of yourself. You know that you're getting lots of prayers!

Paula....thank you! I feel better just getting back to the board, reading, posting....but mostly a lot of smiling and down right laughing. :funn:

I AM, thanks to LightWorker , remembering to take big breaths....deep breathing exercises. I used to do that when I went to the Tortoise Clinic....but the last 2 years have been a whirlwind of doing doing doing ....and not being. Why? I let the world take me away...instead of Calgon!

Right this moment I AM being! I AM also seeing the culmination of the prayers and love of many!

I SoWal peeps!!!! And the Saints!

SoWal Insider

Aug 31, '07 · 9:16 PM#95

(((((((HUGS))))))) your way!!!!

:wub:

Beach Fanatic

Aug 31, '07 · 9:18 PM#96

Paula....thank you! I feel better just getting back to the board, reading, posting....but mostly a lot of smiling and down right laughing. :funn:

Hi Kat! Glad you are feeling better. :wub:

I think we all (especially the locals- no offense) forget to do this ----
:chill:

I think I just made some weekend plans.

Beach Fanatic

Aug 31, '07 · 9:52 PM#97

Kat: You definitely have lots of support from the locals and from those of us who are far away but near in spirit (I'm about 1000 miles away from SoWal but I'm there in spirit)!

Beach Fanatic

Aug 31, '07 · 10:16 PM#98

Lots of hugs and prayers for a very special person. :wub:

Beach Comber

Aug 31, '07 · 11:38 PM#99

thinking of you

:chill:

hmmmm......can't remember

Aug 31, '07 · 11:42 PM#100

thinking of you

What he said!

Beach Comber

Aug 31, '07 · 11:55 PM#101

I've worked with many people who suffer from fibromyalgia. I know it's tough and you are in my prayers every night. I know you will be fine! Just keep having positive thoughts!!

Edited Sep 1, '07 · 12:01 AM