And He said to me, weakness, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
Please continue to pray for my family and me. On my birthday, November 25, I started having symptoms of severe food poisoning. I got IVs and antibiotics and recovered within a week. A couple days later, on December 3, I started having severe and increasing weakness and pain in my legs. I thought it was just muscle soreness from overexertion. Eventually, the symptoms progressed to partial paralysis of my toes on both feet and ankles, and to weakness in my fingers and legs. I also had severe pain in both legs and my lower back as well. To make a long story short, I had an MRI, a Lumbar puncture on December 12, and was diagnosed with Guillian-Barre Syndrome which came as the result of my food poisoning. According to some sources, it may take six months to a year to recover completely.
Praises:
1. Praising God for His grace and protection through weeks without proper sleep due to severe pain.
2. Praising God I recovered enough to be discharged from the hospital without needing to spend five days in the ICU for intensive and potentially financially devastating treatment.
3. Praising God that we had just enough time left on our term-health insurance (which expires the end of 2024) to get treatement).
4. Praising God that my apologetics students can continue to learn despite my illness because I was able to find the video lecture files that I recorded during COVID time-God doesn’t waste anything!
5. Praising God that I am regaining strength and balance more rapidly than the doctor and nurses expected.
6. Praising God that I am able to weakly curl the toes on my right foot again and trusting Him for toes on the left foot and that my finger strength is returning to near normal.
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for more sleep.
2. Please pray for a rapid and complete recovery process.
3. Please pray for strength and health for Kayo and Benjamin as they must bear more burdens and stress during my recovery process.
4. Please pray for favor with our insurance company and for speedy processing of our claims.
5. Please pray that we won’t have major expenses related to this syndrome in the future because we have term-health insurance (which expires the end of 2024), as they probably will not be covered as a pre-existing condition.
6. Please pray for wisdom, protection, and provision in our finances.
7. Please pray for wisdom and provision for Physical Therapy etc.
As we celebrate Christmas, we have many blessings to be thankful for and remember that Christ is the greatest gift we could ever receive!
I am praising in the pain and trusting that God will transform this dead-end street into a runway!
In Christ’s Loving Hands,
Darryl, Kayo, and Benjamin