POST shared re: HOPE LAROCHE (Beth & Roger Laroches Daughter). Thank you sooooooooo much for your prayers, love and encouraging words. We will pass them on to her while she is in Minnesota, attending Bethel University part-time. Today marks a year since I went into the hospital.. and in all honesty, I spent the better half of the afternoon in uncontrollable sobs. I was exhausted and frustrated. I have spent the last 365 days fighting.. And I still find myself so sick, in so much pain, unable to do so much. I spent this past week at Mayo Clinic redoing all of my tests from last year and found out that my results had come back almost identical to last year’s—still very outside of normal ranges and only displaying very minimal improvement of my heart function. After an entire year of revolving my life around improving my health, of fighting every day to improve, of continuing to believe that I can be completely healed.. my test results showed such insignificant improvement. Too often in life we focus on the ways in which we fall short of who/ where we want to be. While it is a beautiful thing to set goals and strive to achieve them, it is incredibly important that we maintain healthy perspectives of what we have actually achieved. I have wonderful people in my life who continue to speak so much truth to me and remind me of what really matters. On one hand, my tests show basically no improvement. On the other hand, the improvements that I have experienced are complete miracles. Perspective shift… I never thought I would be able to walk again, and yet I have walked up to 20 steps! I didn’t think I would be able to go to school this fall, and yet I am doing it! I used to pass out just staying awake for more than an hour, and now I can’t remember the last time I passed out. I used to live in a hospital completely dependent on others, and now I live independently. There HAS been significant improvement. It’s easy to look at how far we have left to go and become discouraged, but let’s experience a perspective shift.. what a celebration that we have taken any steps forward at all! That being said, the test results showed that my heart has stabilized just enough so that I can be admitted into an intensive three-week therapy program at the Mayo hospital at the end of December! This program sounds like a complete answer to prayer. It specializes in diseases similar to mine, and so I will finally be able to meet and relate with others in similar situations. The doctors are so hopeful that this program will be able to jump-start my healing and yield significant improvement by up to 80%. This kind of improvement sounds completely impossible to me.. But, then again, every accomplishment up until this point has been miraculous. I so deeply appreciate those who have walked by my side and have continued to pray for me this past year and a half of unknowns. I attribute so much of my miraculous healing to your countless prayers and words of encouragement! As I prepare to start this next phase of recovery, I ask that you would continue to lift me up in prayer. And, even though I agree that this seems completely impossible, I specifically ask that you continue to pray with me in faith that I can improve by up to 80% by the end of January. Big hugs!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:21:38 +0000
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