Encouraging and Encouragement

Since arriving in California I have had several people tell me that reading my blog was encouraging to them. So I'm going to start writing in this again as long as I feel like I can be glorifying to God and encouraging to you all. I hope that this blog will will help you see how God can use even some of your darkest time to bring people closer to Him.

 I've had a couple of really bad flares here  (like at 10 for 30 minutes) meaning that I have to lay in bed with a heating pad on. I almost went to the hospital for 1 because I wasn't expecting it come on I had been sticking strictly to my IC diet. I went to the bathroom because we were heading out the door to go to Best Buy. As soon as I was done this hot, stabbing pain shot up through my body. Everybody was already out in the car and I literally had to crawl to the door and knock on the window. Christopher came in and helped me walk up the stairs to my bed. Christopher asked me if I wanted I wanted to go the the ER, and I seriously considered it just so that I could get some stronger medicine. But after considering, how much it would cost and that I would be sitting in an uncomfortable chair in pain just didn't sound appealing. So, we decided to wait a while to see if I could get the pain down at home. After 30 minutes of alternating between the heating pad, shower and back to heating pad I finally got the pain down to an 8. I just tried to rest the rest of the night and the next day and tried to keep my stomach relaxed.

Thankfully the California weather seems to really help me not be stressed out a lot I and help keep my stomach relaxed. We'll see how that is when the mid-west is having their winter and we're having our "winter" out here.