Doctor's Appointment
I have my first appointment with a rheumatologist tomorrow at 9:15AM. The poor doctor is going to wish that he'd downed a few more cups of coffee when I arrive. I'm taking 20 pages of test results, a spreadsheet of my personal medical history, and the extensive family medical history that my dear mother compiled for me.
Please pray for insight for the doctor. I know that he is not going to be able to diagnose me immediately, unless the Lord intervenes in a supernatural way. Pray that he will be able to sift out what is significant and what is not. Pray that he will be able to make connections between some of my seemingly discrete symptoms if connections exist.
Please pray also for wisdom for me. It's so hard to know what's relevant, what to say, what to ask, when your hope is so tightly bound up in every word that the doctor utters. Perhaps more to the point: pray that my hope would be in the Lord, even as I sit in that doctor's office.
I'll let you know how it goes!
5 comments:
I have been comforted many times over the past year or so to know that Christ goes with me into the doctor's office. I pray that you feel his presence when you visit the rheumatologist.
Thoughts and prayers are with you.
You will be in my prayers tonight and all day. Love you!
Will be thinking of you...and don't forget, doctors are just lawyers who bombed the LSAT.
My friends,
Thanks so much for your prayers last night and today. No, it didn't go as I'd hoped. I'd hoped that today was a day for answers. But it's not time yet. Please continue to pray for patience and endurance.
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