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.
I have a good friend who has been through some bad times and losses. He is fighting through depression and trying to find purpose again. His therapist is helpful but not enough.
If anyone can send some positive and healing energy to my friend Dave in Colorado it would be wonderful.
Thank you. 🌺
First I want to say that I am very happy to see @allyn returning to us. Your insights have been missed, but perhaps it's best that you missed the worst of the tension before the election. I think spirit was telling you that you needed the rest, and you were too stubborn to listen, so they had to make you lay down! 🤣
Second, my mom was released from the ER with a Paxlovid prescription and a much higher (temporarily) dose of her usual prednisone to help her fight off the infection and combat the fatigue. She has a cough, but it's not severe and it is productive, so it appears at least at this early stage that she is experiencing a mild case, for which I'm grateful. I am still testing negative, although it's early yet. We do live in the same house and breathe the same air, so there's always a possibility. I am planning to go to my new job tomorrow and tell them the situation and see what they want to do, so wish me luck on that.
Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, prayers, and concern, and please keep lifting us up for the next week or so until things shake out.
Those are wonderful affirmations! Thank you so much for taking the time and care posting them.
Wonderful new about your mom, so far so good. I am glad the doctors gave her that Paxlovid prescription and that she is breathing rather well. Happy to hear you will go to work and let them decide what they want you to do tomorrow. May stay healthy. May your mom have only a mild case and my your new job be a wonderful experience for you.
Thank you or the update!
Welcome back Allyn! Happy to hear that you are doing well, all things considered. You must be feeling a mixture of such strong emotions. Taking off some time is wise may enable you process your feelings and thoughts, perhaps discover some you didn't realize you even had.
There is much light around you. Eventually I believe you will discover that what you have experienced will be a catalyst for something beautiful to manifest in your life.
We welcome you anytime a safe place is needed to express your feelings.
Sending you lots of love. We have missed you!
I pray your fears will lessen. I pray that you feel better and better in every way and I am here for you.
It must be very hard to not be afraid. I am glad you took time off. I am glad you are receiving care.
Remember you are not your cousin. I think the meds will help. I really do.
@allyn I would count on the medication working if I were you. I am glad you trusted us to share this. And I am very happy you are taking time off. No stress and think less but feel more.
@allyn so sorry to hear what you are going through. I wish you the best outcomes possible.
@allyn @jeanne @tgraf66 ( and several others that haven't shared who are facing medical challenges and needing prayer and support)
We have been running on fumes these past few months...pushing ourselves past our limits over and over again.
We are now being forced by our bodies to rest, recuperate and heal to be ready for this new world we are creating 💚🕊️
I pray that as this winter - the time when all " hibernate and sleep beneath the snow" we spend our time giving ourselves and each other the support and love and care we need to strengthen and renew ourselves and our connections... we all have a bit of PTSD trauma from our fierce battles of the past few years.
No... we aren't done yet... there are a few more skirmishes ahead... but we have space and time to heal and nurture ourselves and to celebrate too.
I celebrate the Love,Light,Hope,Faith,Joy and Connection we are.
I lift in prayer all of us, trusting that our needs are being met to the Highest Good of All Concerned. Sending out Light and Love to all 🙏🏻❤️💜💚🕊️🪔🕯️🌄🕊️💚💜❤️🙏🏻
@allyn I have missed your voice on this Forum, wondered how you were, and glad to hear from you. I am thinking, though I sure do understand your fear, you are not your cousin.
Also, would it feel comfortable and possible to take off through the winter holidays which are almost upon us anyway, for restorative rest... And, what Lovendures said....
Enfolding you in soft green light and softest pink light of the highest order....