Just a quick note about what I am enduring

[trez]

Hey Brothers and Sisiters,

I just noticed that there is a note for prayer on the site for me.
I'm sure it probably has been up there for a week or so. Here it is
in a nut shell. They don't have a clue as to what it is yet. I am
Fatigued, weak, (lost about 3/4 of my normal energy), I have severe
muscle cramps and point tenderness, I am short of breath, my labs are
essentially normal except for an elevated CK level (for you medical
persons) and the MRI is showing abnormal brain Atrophy.

I think it hyposexulosis (the lack of sex, but a severe case of it,
normally it only effects one muscle but in my case maybe more than
one. Chris says it explains the brain atrophy.)

Seriously though they are thinking a disease called Polymyositis. An
autoimmune disorder. It has a really crappy prognosis. About a 3rd
of the people die with it. another 3rd end up incapacitated. While
the last third have no symptoms after treatment.

I plan on being in the last 3rd. This occurred after the trip to the
Carribean. It has been going on about 4 weeks now. I am out a job.
During the trip however I would get up and pray at 4 am. During one
prayer session I was told that my wife was to have cancer. I asked
our Lord to bestow the illness to me instead. I told Him that I have
always been a survivor and that I could take it better than Chris. He
also said I'd be alright. I shared this with my wife and a close
friend. One week later this hit.

Now I look at you all as my Brothers and Sisters, that doesn't
change. I however will want prayers of healing. Some people very
close to me state that I have burned the candle at both ends too
long. That I need to slow down and do less. I was even told to do a
puzzle to pass time.

Brothers and Sisters, I would get on my bike when it was 30 degrees, I
have road through hail, tornados, thunderstorms, and 70 mile per hour
winds. You know what went through my mind on those trips? I praised
God I was alive and that the weather and the storms made me realize it
again.

If God wanted me to make a puzzle then He would never have given me
this Spirit. Sure I may not be able to go back to work. I may be
limited in somethings. But it will just open new doors for me. It
makes me think like this ... If you were faced with the possibility of
death, and you knew you were to meet your maker what would you had
wished you had done differently?

I have been given this chance. What a solid gift that truely is. I
don't think I'm gonna die just yet. I have some work to do. Let me
start by saying I LOVE YOU and Keep Believeing in GOD. TREZ