Have been praying. I pray as she comes off the drugs, God heals her. That
has happened to two people I know of, one being a friend of mine who was
meant to die shortly after due to crispy lungs from weeks on an oxygen tank
due to an incurable virus picked up via a work associate who served in
Desert Storm. but is currently building his house and has years of no
problems in health whatsoever.

Brad



Phil Scovell wrote:
>We need to be really praying for Carol right now.  I talked to her this
>morning and she is not well at all.  Some of the problem may be due to the
>medications she is on.  One of the medications is used with people who have
>seizures but that same drug is also used for people who have chronic back
>pain.  It deadens the nerve endings to assist them in coping with the
>chronic pain.  Carol is taking it for her back pain.  Well, this drug is
>taken in rather large doses each day and you have to build up to the high
>level over a period of months.  This is also true when coming off of it.
>About half way through this treatment, Carol was sounding and feeling the
>best since I've known her.  I was hoping they would stop there but they
>cranked her all the way up to the highest levels.  She began getting colds
>and illnesses that would hang on for weeks at a time.  She no sooner would
>get rid of one but another one would begin.  She isn't resting well, has
>very little strength to do anything, and no energy.  At times, she even has
>problems forming words.  She has seen her doctors and requested she come off
>all medications because she no longer wants to be on anything.  She is
>starting with the drug for her back that requires such a high dosage each
>day.  The doctor told her to go ahead and back the medicine down little by
>little just like she did when starting it and to keep him informed.  I am
>very concerned about Carol and have been for many months.  The situation she
>is in right now is serious.  If she lived in the states, she would likely be
>admitted to the hospital for observation and to monitor what the drugs were
>doing.  I do get emails from her but not on a regular bases because she
>simply cannot concentrate long enough to type a long message and when she
>forces herself, she is very tired afterward.  She probably would not like me
>telling you this much but if you knew as much as I do about Carol's life and
>how the Lord has brought some tremendous emotional healing to her life in
>the past year and a half, you would understand how serious this prayer
>request is.  Carol could easily die from this situation and she told me in
>her last email that she has prayed and asked the Lord to take her home.  Not
>because she is suicidal but because she is so weary of being ill and weak
>and unable to function even half a life.  I am asking each of you to please
>pray for life and not death.  Her husband, Mike, is also having some
>difficulties at work that isn't helping either one of them.  I personally
>believe, and have told Carol this more than once, that her physical healing
>is the will of God for her life.  This is not a guess on my part; it is what
>I truly believe.  It is not, I repeat, it is not God's will for her to die
>at this time.  Yet, suffering physically is no picnic for anyone.  I believe
>she will improve as the medications are removed slowly so pray for strength
>of will and strength of mind for Carol and Mike both right now.
>
>Phil.

Brad

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