October update

Hi, friends,

I would so appreciate your prayers. Since getting back from my family’s trip to Hawaii, I haven’t been feeling well at all with really bad muscle weakness, fatigue, and pain. 🥺

I’m so weak which makes it challenging to walk at my normal speed and do my day-to-day activities. The fatigue is so great (I go to bed at 7 pm and don’t get up the next day until around 10:30-11:00 am). The pain is out of this world, too, and it’s very difficult to concentrate/focus. 😭

I saw a couple of my doctors recently and had a bunch of labs drawn. At first, we weren’t sure if the weakness was from my platelets dropping the last 2 months (my latest platelet check looks much better than before, though).

One specific lab came back really high which indicates there’s a lot of inflammation in my body. My PCP thinks it’s due to fighting a viral infection that I caught on vacation. I wish this had an easy fix, but he said we have to give it time to go back down.. And he’ll consider other treatment options if I don’t improve within the next several weeks..

It’s been incredibly rough feeling so crummy each and every day while waiting for my strength to return. My PICC line has also been itching a ton, and the MCAS medication for it hasn’t been helping like it used to. 😔

Could you please pray that all this inflammation and stress on my body doesn’t cause me to go into another bad mitochondrial crash? I really don’t want to have to be admitted to the hospital.. 😢

Thank you all for always being there for me through the ups and downs of life. ❤️ I am so blessed to have numerous prayer warriors like you!!