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Night and day difference

I'm not sure I can accurately express in words how different I feel since beginning my medication. I can't even recall the last time I was actually angry! No more feeling like the Hulk. And... I actually like people!!! LOL I don't have to put on a happy face and pretend to like people and interacting with them.. I actually do enjoy it! My headaches are even better. I don't have them all the time! I do still have them sometimes, but not like it was before. Which really does make a huge difference. My one medication still makes me sleepy, but my other one helps with that. I've also started birth control to try to help with all the pain I have during the month. The doctor doesn't think it will help. She thinks that I have endometriosis that is causing all my issues. If the birth control doesn't help with the pain then she will go in through my belly button with a camera and look around to see what's going on in there. I've only been on the pil

Mary at this time of year

Since becoming a mother I've really begun to think about and understand Mary, the mother of Jesus. Not only did she agree to become His mother while she was a virgin, a teenager, and pledged to be married to someone else; but she agreed to a very difficult and painful path our of love and obedience to her Lord. Thankfully her husband to be was also obedient to God's calling. I don't know about you, but me at 15 was not at all ready to be pregnant or married! And yet she was ready to take on this task because she chose to follow God's calling for her life. She was found to be worthy to carry God's son, can you imagine the honor she must have felt?! Honor and also terrified! If you have given birth fully naturally you know how painful it. Now imagine doing that while still being a virgin! YOUCH! I really hope that God had mercy on her and made it less painful! As a mom I think of her feeling Jesus moving around in her belly. Feeling His kicks and when He had th