Silver Lining of Covid....series....Part 4

 As you know I am sharing a series about the silver lining that came out of my experience with Covid. God was faithful and I am so thankful for that!! 

One of the silver linings is that this experience helped build my faith! I had to! I spent many hours over these 3 weeks praying! When I say many hours - I did not spend a whole hour praying - but I prayed many times. I have a rough time sleeping and I was up many times. And when I would get myself set back in bed- I would spend time praying to God for healing, not only for me but for the 7 other people that I knew had Covid. I lifted them up to Jesus. I prayed for all those sick with it- or anything else. I prayed for all the people I knew that were experiencing any aches or pains or any issues. Sometimes I just prayed for people I knew and told Jesus - you know what is going on in their live and I ask you to bless them draw them closer to you! I found myself praying day and night. I even prayed that God would eradicate Covid. I hate anyone having to go through it. 

So after 2 weeks of being sick and realize I was going down hill - this was the time I really had to hold onto my faith. God brought to my mind a passage in Scriptures that speaks of Daniel praying and having to wait 3 weeks for an answer. 

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Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

13But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.  Daniel 10:12- 13 

And to be honest with you. I felt that this was the case with me. That I had prayed for healing but there was a battle going on behind the scenes. God was wanting to bring me healing but the devil did not want that to happen. I prayed for angels that excelled in strength to be sent forth to fight for me. And asked for protection for myself because I felt like:

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" 

1 Peter 5:8

And I knew that I needed God to fight for me. 

I read Psalms 91 and 23 ever single day - sometimes several times. I put my whole trust in Jesus Christ because I knew He was the only one who could heal me. I had to have faith and my faith grew through this. I couldn't help but come out of it with more faith.  

Just one more of the silver linings from my experience with Covid. I am SO grateful that there were silver linings. 

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."  Romans 8:28

Silver Linings of Covid...series....part 3

 In all of my life I do not ever remember getting and knocked on my butt as I was during my 3 weeks of being sick with Covid. I think that it what lead to the silver lining that I will be sharing about today. 

Gratitude for being alive has been something that has brought me great joy over the last few weeks. I think I have always had gratitude but I have it at such a higher level now. There are many times throughout the day that I am just overwhelmed with being thankful to be alive. Thankful to be able to get back to taking care of my self. I am grateful that I am able to take care of my home and my garden. There for a few days - I did not have the energy to even walk to the kitchen to look out my kitchen window at my garden. And I actually had to come to a place of being ok if I lost the garden. Because I couldn't do anything about it. When you get do unable to do things - it makes you so thankful and grateful when you are finally able to do them again. 

There were a couple of days that I could not even take a shower. Then tried one day and it just totally sent me to having to do a breathing treatment and using my oxygen boost and trying to get my numbers under control - caused me to have a migraine. The next day I did a bit better and then the next even better. It was like daily I was able to a bit more- and each new accomplishment brought me great joy! 

I find myself just feeling so much gratitude to God for being alive and I just have to say: 

"Thank you Jesus for getting me through!" 

"Thank you for not forsaking me!!" 

"Thank You Jesus!" 

I am so thankful for the silver linings that I have received from my bout with Covid. Would I ever want to go through that again? NO!! But I am thankful for the blessings that God brought to me through this experience! 

Be sure to come back next week - we have at least 2 more posts! :O) 

Silver Linings of Covid...series...part 2

 Being sick with Covid for 3 weeks was tough but God blessed me through this time period and I was able to find the silver linings. 

I had already decided that I needed to change my hair style. I have done my hair the same way for years and years. You know when you find a good thing, why change? Well several things had convinced me that it was time to let it grow out. At my last hair cut in June we had tweeked one tiny thing with the plans of continuing the process. I had tried to change my hair at least once or twice but usually only made it one hair cut. 

It has been hard to change hair styles because I was so used to seeing my hair fixed a certain way.  So June 15th I got sick and for 3 weeks I did not fix my hair. And gradually I got used to seeing my hair flat. I like volume up a bit and out on sides a bit. So when I don't fix it like I did - it is pretty flat. But for 3 weeks I did not fix my hair and I got used to seeing it flatter. So ever since then I have styled it differently. I had a hair cut last week and we began that letting it grow out - by cutting about 1 1/2 inches off of the back so that the layers will even up quicker. Next hair cut we will cut a bit more off of the back and the the sides can catch up. I hope I am able to find something that is flattering for me and I love! I love what my hair does in the back - I actually have some curl to it. I am hoping the longer my hair gets on the sides that I will maybe end up with some curl in it too! That would be awesome! 

So Covid was rough but there have been some blessings that have come out of it. I am glad that I took the time to noticed the silver linings of Covid. Next week I will share another silver lining! See you then! :O)

Silver Linings of Covid series...part 1

 I don't know if I conveyed the fact that Covid kicked my butt! It was the worst shape I have ever been in my life. For a couple of days I was afraid I would die. It had me in such bad shape that I could do hardly anything other than get to couch, bed, or bathroom. And I spent a whole lot of time sitting watching TV.  Although it was a very hard time for me - I have to admit that there were silver linings and I will do my best to share them with you.

I have shared with you in the past about falling on my left knee 2 different times in the last 3 years. Once in our RV from an elevated step - onto a hard floor- no carpet. Then just in the last year - I fell on it in our sunroom on a concrete floor. It has really bothered me. It is hard to knee on it and over the last several months I had noticed that I could not sit in one of my favorite ways to sit with my left knee. I like to sit on the couch with my left foot under my right knee or vice versa. And over the last several months I could NOT sit with my left knee under my right knee. It just hurt my left knee too much. I had tried ever so often to no avail. But some how - maybe God's mercy He healed it and while I spent way too much time on the couch - I was able to switch back and forth of which ankle under which knee. I am SO thankful for the healing of that - it really helped me get through the 3 weeks that I was sick. And this is just the first of at least 5 silver linings that came out of my experience with Covid. I hope you will keep coming back to see how God worked good things out of a bad situation. Praise be to God!!! :O) 

Another Tool That I Believe Helped Me Through Covid!

 So on one of my husbands stays at the hospital probably several years ago. He decided to bring this home with him. And we are so glad he did! I believe this is one of the things that helped me get through my recent bout with Covid. 

I knew I needed to keep my lungs strong and working well. And so especially when I was having issues keeping my oxygen levels up - I would use this machine. You put your mouth on the mouth piece and you pull air into your lungs steadily. You are trying to pull the ball that in on the right side up and keep it between the two arrows. I did this often and it really helped keep my lungs strong. And I truly believe it helped me get through in better shape - lung wise. 

So my suggestion would be if you ever have the chance to get one of these - take it home - and use it when needed! 

One of the Things That Helped Me Through Covid

 On Sunday a friend from church told me that Peggy from church was bringing me oxygen. Another an hour later my doorbell went off - and I got myself to the door. I was in very bad shape this day- she waved from her car - she had put a bottle on my porch for me. I picked it up and she said that this had really helped her through Covid the year before and wanted to help me out. 

She brought me a Methol- Eucalyptus scented one. I was not thinking/ reasoning at 100% so actually didn't use it properly but thankfully it still helped me out a whole lot. Later I had my husband go pick up a few more bottles. 

I had no idea they even had things like this. It's funny because it feels like an empty bottle, but it is like 10 liters of air. And if you are struggling with Covid - I highly recommend these canisters!!! 

I Really Thought I Might Die - several times....

 First of all I have to say that I am SO very thankful that several weeks ago I had gotten a good amount of posts set up to post. If I had not done this - you would not have heard from me for several weeks. 

June the 15 my blood pressure elevated as did my heart rate. I thought I had some heart issues going on. That night I had a horrible night - and was running fever so I knew I was sick. I was able to get in to see my Dr the next day. She checked me out and said they had no way to test me for Covid but that the numbers were so low she thought that what I had was an upper respitory infection. So she prescribed a zpak. I continued to run a fever for the next week But by the 18th my sense of smell and taste were off. So I took a Covid test - and sure enough it was positive. She told me to take several different vitamins, prescribed steroids' and breathing treatments and aspirin for the next 3 months. By the 23rd I stopped running the fever. I had been told that once I was fever free for 24 hours - I would no longer be contagious. So when my fever broke I thought that I was headed in the right direction. I would soon find out that was not the case. By Sabbath morning the 26th - I knew I was in trouble. I barely made it to the bathroom and then to the sewing room where we had the breathing machine set up. And I did a breathing treatment. There were several times from Sabbath - through Monday that I really thought I might die. It was that scary! 

The week before a friend had told me about a Dr who prescribes the actual meds that help fight Covid. Sabbath morning I knew I needed the real meds. I contacted the Dr and asked if he would prescribe the meds and God moved in a powerful way and he said yes. Several hours later my Mom brought me the meds. 

Let's back up just a bit - so the Dr said that these 3 meds he had prescribed to me work the best and quickest when prescribed at the beginning of sickness - and at the point I finally got the meds - I had been sick for 12 days! 

By Sunday I was in even worse shape. My body was in such bad shape about all I could handle was to walk to the closest bathroom to use the bathroom and then get back to the couch asap. I could not handle being up longer than that. It was so taxing on my body just to be up on my feet.  

My husband was so worried and was really wanting me to go to the hospital. Sunday evening I was talking on the phone to my youngest son - he was trying to talk me into going to hospital. As we were talking the local city ambulance pulled into my driveway. My daughter in laws mother had called them to come check on me. They came in and spent an hour here checking me out and answering questions. Come to find out that I was doing everything that I needed to be doing and that it would at this point just take some time to get better. Sabbath I had taken my first 4 pills of covid killing med and Monday I had the next 4 pills to take. I had also been put on 2 other meds. And the Dr wife made some essential oil spray that was to be sprayed on my chest and my back. She also made up some capsules of some oils to help. The first several days I could not taste these oil filled capsules - but several days later - I sure could. All these things really helped me. So the paramedic thought it would be fine for me to stay home. It was such a God thing that they came out when they did - otherwise I would have ended up in the hospital and that was the LAST thing that I wanted. 

Monday the 28th of June - I wanted to get a shower - I hadn't been able to get on on Sunday. I took the fastest shower ever and when I got out - I was coughing and struggling big time. I went to take a breathing treatment - the whole experience was so rough on me - I went into a migraine. Thankfully there are several essential oils that helped with that (I will do a post about this later) and I went to my bed to try to get a nap. I don't usually take naps but for 1 week - I could not make it through the whole day - I was not sleeping good at night so I had to get a nap. 

One of the main reasons why I was not sleeping at night is because I would wake up many times throughout the night with cotton mouth and throat. I got in the habit - still having to do this- I keep a couple of small bottles of water near the bed - and any time I get up at night I drink water as well. 

So by Tuesday I was very, very slowly gaining a tiny bit of strength and ability to be on my feet. Not for very long and I would have to get back to sitting down and recover often. Sabbath - after my nap- I was feeling good enough that I cleaned up the kitchen from our lunch and could tell I finally had taken a turn for gaining my strength back. It felt SO very good. It seemed like there for a while that my road to recovery would be a very long one. 

Sunday July 4th We needed some groceries and so we decided to go to walmart and aldis. We only got a few things at walmart - did not go but to grocery side and only went down a couple of the rows. I had a bit of recovery time as we drove to Aldi's. Once we were done with both stores I was so very thankful that I had been able to get out - I had been home for 18 days! 

Monday our little town had it's parade. We parked at the top of the hill and walked the couple of blocks down. God blessed us with a beautifully cool morning - well cool compared to normal July temps. I think it was only about 77 to start out - warmed up I am sure. It felt good to sit in the sun and enjoy the granddaughters enjoying the parade and candy. Walking back up to the car was a bit of a challenge. But I had been sleeping SO horrible and I had decided that I would make a goal of getting at least 6,000 steps a day - and that walk each way helped with my goal. 

Wednesday was the day my husband went back to work. I had another rough night - dry mouth. And woke up at 5:30am. So I decided to try to do a Rise Up Ministries Weight Workout. I need to get my strength up - so after I had quiet time and took care of animals - I did a work out! Was SO thankful to be able to do that. It feels great to be getting my strength back and able to do the things I love to do! 

So as you can see - had I not already had some great posts ready to go - you would not have heard from me for several weeks. I have never ever been that sick in all of my live. Cancer and Chemo were not this hard on my body. But I am SO thankful that God was with me every step of the way. He strengthened me and He brought things needed to me by friends and family. That will be another post. 

I pray you all are well and I would say - that you really may want to be taking Vit C, D3, and Zinc - these things are excellent to strengthen your immune system. These are things I have been taking - And I will continue to do so to keep my system strong. :O)