11 weeks
9/15/14
Update on Alexa is
not good. I wish it could be better
& if I had written this the beginning of the week it would have been. She was doing so well but then, about Thurs,
started feeling so bad again.
She was so pale
& running a temp again yesterday. I
wrote to Marie in Minnesota last night telling her what was going on &
asked her what she thinks it might be. I
told her I would get an apt with our GI here but told her that I thought she
would need to talk to her since I felt that she isn’t too familiar with this
surgery. I knelt down yesterday morn
& asked Heavenly Father if He would give me some guidance & the thought
came to me that possibly the Cascara Segrada, the herb that I give her to help
her not get constipated from the medicines, could be a bit too harsh on her
system. I went in right then & took
it out of her pills for the day. She did
seem to feel better later that afternoon but I do need to give her something
still, I don’t want her to get stopped up.
I may just give her less of it & try having her eat pears like my
Dad says. I know the pain dr is planning
on weaning her down more off her meds this week so maybe that will help
too. It’s really so hard to know what to
do!!! I am so grateful that Heavenly
Father is aware of us & gives us immediate answers when we need them!! We always have the Priesthood also. Alexa knows that if things get too
unbearable, all she has to do is ask for a Priesthood blessing &
immediately she feels relief!! I am so
grateful we have this power on earth today & it was restored thru Joseph
Smith!! I am absolutely positive that is
why we are able to avoid going to the ER so many times. There is times when Alexa is curled in a ball
& there in no hope for relief & we have given her everything we can but
she knows that thru His power she can always turn & find the help that she
needs. We are hanging in there. Things are getting better. We knew this would be a long recovery &
we just need to be patient & take things one day at a time.