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@tgraf66, sending prayers, light & healing energy to you both.
My husband got Paxlovid for his Omicron infection in September. Only side effect was a little insomnia the first day or two. It really cut down his recovery time. Also, if you yourself have significant risk factors, sometimes the docs will also prescribe it to you as a preventative. Like AIDS drugs, it blocks replication of the virus at the cellular level. Good luck!!
@tgraf66, I'm sorry to hear this. I agree with @lovendures' suggestion about the Paxlovid.
Sending healing prayers for your mom and for your protection. Let us know how you both are doing.
@tgraff66 I am sending prayers to both you and your mom. Please keep us posted each day if you are well enough to do so, so we can reinvigorate our prayers for you both.
@tgraff66, so sorry to hear your news. Sending light and prayers your way.
@JeanneMayell, I hope you are doing better as well after your surgery. Hope you are recovering well and receiving light and prayers too.
To everyone else, please receive my heartfelt gratitude for the light and prayers you sent my way. To those who don't know, I had a stroke on October 25, 2022 and was in the hospital for a week. I am home now and in a state of thankfulness and anxiety.
Long story short, I had an artery deep inside my left cerebellum that was ninty percent narrowed. The cause is unknown. All of my blood tests show I had good cholesterol levels and my blood pressure was excellent. The doctors are still at a loss of what to think. It may be something I was born with and is only now showing up. It may be the birth control patches I used for the last twenty years to control endometriosis. It could be a prolonged period of constant stress (I admit that the last two years after Covid has been extremely stressful work wise). It may be a rare genetic disorder. The possibilities are endless.
The reason for my anxiety is my cousin had a stroke when she was my age, but hers resulted in complete blockage to where they had emergency surgery. It did not go well, and my cousin has trouble speaking and moves around with a cane to this day (which is actually a great improvement from where she started from.) I am scared that I may need surgery if this medication doesn't work, and that it will cause problems just like it did for my cousin. I have been extremely lucky so far. I have had no problems with my motor skills, my speaking, or my cognitive abilities, but if the medication doesn't work....well it scares me. It really does.
I am taking a few weeks off of work to see how the medication works. I hope my neurologist gives me encouraging news. Until then, I am trying to stay positive. I can't voice these fears to my family because it will only worry them. But hopefully I will feel better voicing them here and getting them off my chest. I appreciate all of your support. I really do.
@jeanne-mayell and @tgraff66
I've been meaning to put these prayers/affirmations in here forever. Several of them I no longer know exactly where I got them, I used them when I was maintaining the website for our little Spiritualist/Non-denominational Center here in Tucson. If anyone knows the attributes to the ones I didn't - that would be great. We are talking at least 20 years back. They may be Catherine Ponder, Florence Scovel Shinn, the Unity websites or Spiritualist websites that proliferate the info highway. I apologize for not knowing the authors, as I normally do, but these are old, old, found decades ago and other than the Prayer of Faith, the originals are probably on some dead harddrive (or 5 inch floppy disks!!) At anyrate, I have seen when looking on my phone that both Jeanne and tgraff66 in particular needed something right now, but for posts I have missed in here and names that need extra thoughts and prayers, I often just send Healing to the entire forum, as individual ribbons of Light, many hues, for those who need to pull in. The Creator knows who needs what, is my firm believe. May these help others as they have sustained me for many, many years, in many challenging circumstances.
Into the Hands of the Creator I place my fears, my worries, my cares, and my troubles.
Into the Wisdom of the Creator I place my life, my path, my direction, my goal.
Into the Heart of the Creator I place my prayer, my love, my healing, my success.
Where there is fear I open to God’s Strength. Where there is pain, I open to God’s Healing.
All that I need in order to handle this situation I have available to me NOW.
I have the clarity to discern right actions, right words, right energy.
The compassion and love of the Creator sustain me.
I am One with the Light
Amen and Amen.
I am Made from the Light and love and Power of God.
All things are condensed Light. When I eat, I am consuming Light. When I speak I speak the sound of Light. When I dress I clothe myself in Light. When I bathe I bathe in Light. When I breathe I breathe Light. When I see, I witness the Light in all things. When I touch others I feel the Light. I am nourished in all ways through Light and I nourish others with Light.
The Prayer of Faith (Hannah More Kohaus)
God is my help in every needGod does my every hunger feed
God walks beside me, guides my way
Through every moment of the day
I now am wise, I now am true
Patient, kind, and loving too.
All things I Am can do and Be
Through Christ (Buddha whatever name you use) the Truth that is in me.
God is my health, I can’t be sick
God is my strength, unfailing quick
God is my all I know no fear
Since God and Love and Truth are here.
I AM a child of the Light and I walk in the Light. I clothe myself safely round with the pure White Light of the Christ (Buddha, whatever name you use) into which nothing negative can penetrate and out of which only good can come.
I was kicked off before I finished, but I will let those prayers speak for themselves. The editor and graphic designer in me is not happy with the "look"! Guess I better give myself a talk about perfectionism overriding content. Blessings everyone!
@tesseract Those affirmations and prayers are heartfelt and beautiful. Thank you for sharing them.
@allyn It is so good for us to hear from you. I know you are glad to be home. It's good that you have time away from work to recuperate. It must have been a shock to find out the cause of your stroke. Sometimes our bodies betray us with anomalies that show up later in life. Or maybe one of the other reasons you mentioned...who can know? We do our best, but are at the mercy of these fragile vessels we live in. Thank God you survived and will continue to thrive! You will be closely followed by your medical team for a long, long time to make sure you stay healthy. You are blessed, and you are a blessing! I pray that your new medication works. Thinking of you.