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[BloomInWinter]

((((((Nicolette)))))))

May your mind find a path of peace amidst the chaos. Hope you can notice how many great personal effectivneess skills you're using so well!

Imagine us there with you.

*Linking Arms*

 

[Froggie]

(((((Nicolette))))), like KP mentionned, I too find it easier to deal with situations once I know what I'm dealing with. Please follow the wise suggestions from Amethist, I'm sure Anthony is a great support. ((((Anthony)))), I know it must be quite something with this role of supporter for Nicolette. There are many here that are thinking of both of you. Many candles, thoughts, etc. going your way .... to both of you.

 

[Nicolette]

Good news.... I think :confused:.... I'm on a category 1 waiting list for surgery (don't have private health insurance) which means within the next 30 days. All will dependent on availability. No choice of operating doctor but the specialist said he is going to try and get me on his list as they still have a certain amount of public hospital hours they must complete.

That is stage one and until this happens they won't know the full extent of the kidney/bladder region and then it will be the gynaecologist's turn to work on the reproductive organs and endometriosis there.

The main objective at this stage is to find out what is obstructing my kidney and may mean inserting a stent, could mean better or worse....going to have to go in as it's somewhat a deal with it when they get in there type scenario.

Specialists will be communicating with each other so hopefully they can do some planning and working in unison to have the least impact on me surgically.

About time is all I can say :rolleyes:

For anyone out there who is getting sick and you think the doctors are on the wrong path - don't quit and go down fighting as my pushing has moved mountains this week which I have been struggling with for years. Finally the right person came into my life to listen and now I have a chance of getting my health back.:D (As scary as it feels right now :tdown:)

 

[Froggie]

You're a strong willed gal ((((Nicolette)))), you will get through all this. Know the feeling about the scary part, relating to you.

 

[Nicolette]

Not beaten Froggie. Just a little rattled at the moment. :)

 

[Lionheart]

I once had a severe kidney infection and had to be hospitalized because I was passing blood in my urine and I mean lots of blood. I kept nodding out and after I had tests run, the nurse comes in to inform me that I only have one functioning kidney. I thought it meant I was going to die.:eek: I was horribly upset as I was stationed with the military some 800 plus miles away from my family. What I didn't know is that a person can live a normal healthy life with just one functioning kidney.:)

I don't know, I thought maybe my story might help you a bit and if nothing else, give you a little hope. At any rate, I know how scary illnesses can be and wanted you to know that I am thinking of you and wishing you the best!!!:tup:

 

[Mercy]

Nicholette, I don't know if this can be useful to you because I don't know where you stand as far as religion goes. Stop here if you don't want to hear it, please
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Waiting is so stressful. It can be exhausting and fearful.

I had a hard time making a decision about giving up my career so that my daughter could go to a normal public(American public) school. Prayer wasn't helping at all. I thought I was where I was supposed to be an Architect who work in community devlopement in the slums of NYC. I was designing homeless shelters for families, women, Battered women and their families. I was sure that my work was serving God.

Then one day A hymn we sing and an article from a nature magazine cam together. The first lines of the hymn
goes:
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall rise up on wings as eagles."

That image never made sense to me. Then I read that eagles migrate from Turkey down the rift valley to the Sinai using thermal currents. One could see columns of eagles rising up without beating their wings at all. From the ground in those days before pesticides, a person might look around and see 4 or 5 columns of eagles. Every so often, the top eagle would glide off his column and drift to the bottom of the next column without beating his wings at all. It must have seemed miraculous in the time before science explained it. It looks like A higher power was doing all the work. The eagles had only to wait for the lift to lessen as the air cooled off and look for the next column.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

Praying for you if that's OK.

 

[Nicolette]

Great news - surgery on 27th - pretty quick considering I'm going through the public system.

 

[Nicolette]

Thanks Mercy :)

 

[Nerdanna]

Will be thinking of you, Nicolette.

 

[Froggie]

Date is on my calendar Nicolette. Many will be thinking of you and there will probably be candles burning all over the world for you on that date.

 

[OKRADLAK]

(((((((((((Nicolette)))))))) Sending low stress and high strength your way!