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Strange Prayer Request
I have a prayer request for something seemingly simple but because of a prior medical condition could have serious consequences.
About a dozen years ago I pricked my finger while removing thorns / burrs from my dogs fur. It only bled a few drops and I thought nothing about it. The next day my finger was stiff and difficult to bend. To make a long story short I developed RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) that caused me to almost have my finger amputated.
After months of very painful physical therapy we saved the finger and after about 5 more years of physical therapy on my own I got it back to about 95%usage.
The Doctor warned me that people who have RSD once are susceptible to have it again so I have to be very careful not to injure my extremities (fingers and toes) and to let doctors know I had RSD if I am going to have any invasive surgeries.
A couple of days ago I accidently got stuck in a finger by a small needle from one of my wife's cactus plants. I tried to pull it out and it broke off. Subsequent attempts to get it out with tweezers has failed and now the finger is swollen, sore, and looks like it is the beginning of infection.
I am aggravated beyond belief that Iam going to have to go to the doctor and spend a hundred bucks or more to get something this simple taken care of. I had both my wife and daughter torture me trying to get it out with no luck.
Tonight I am worried because this newly injured finger is right next to the one I almost lost to RSD and now I feel a stiffness in the finger I worked so many years to get unstiff and back to normal.
I don't want a $1000 hospital bill from going to the emergency room on a weekend so please pray for healing or at least healing until Monday when I can go to a regular doctor. Most of all pray that RSD does not present itself. I have pricked my fingers over the years to the point of drawing blood and have had no problems but this is swollen, sore, etc.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Last edited by CC1; 07-26-2009 at 11:40 AM.
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