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From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>

> Everett and Donna,
>
> Here is an email I sent to my mailing list called echurch-USA and to a few
> others.
>
> Dad.
>
> I would like you guys to pray about something for me. I
> recently happened to be writing back and forth with brad off list
> and mentioned what was going on with me physically. I admitted I
> had become quite discouraged over the last year due to a big drop
> in our monthly support of the ministry so some of my
> discouragement, of course, is related to that but there is more.
>
> Since about early September, my back, lower back that is, has
> gone out about three times. It was once again sciatica On
> September the first which I had for the first time, a ye ar and a
> half ago, but since then, just the lower 6 to 8 inches of my back
> has felt, when it was hurting and it isn't right now, thank the
> Lord, like a gorilla has reached in to my back and clamped his
> huge hand around my spine just below my belt line and started
> squeezing. I finally went to the doctor a couple of months ago to
> get some pain relief. I am now back on my low carb diabetic diet
> and exercising a little every day so that is going to eventually
> help with all the things I am about to describe. This prayer
> request has to do with praying for a very expensive chair and
> adjustable keyboard tray for my computer keyboard but you will
> understand why as you read.
>
> For several months, as I said, I have been having physical
> symptoms which are causing me some problems. Some appears to be
> related to diabetic neuropathy pain because at times, my arms > aches from my biceps, well, almost from my shoulders, to my finger
> tips. My hands, as I type, tingle all the time now and by evening
> hours, they feel so weak, I can't hardly type without it driving
> me crazy. I also feel finger tip pain, numbness and tingling. My
> hands get to feeling like I have been installing an overhead
> ceiling fan or smoke alarm after several minutes of my hands and
> arms being up over my head. Also, my wrist joints, and some of my
> knuckles on both hands, will ache one day, burn the next, and itch
> like crazy other days. I also get a burning, or aching, sensation
> that feel like it is just below my skin. It aches and burns from
> my elbow to my wrist and sometimes that same feeling is on the
> tops of my hands, too. Besides all that, Since September first,
> my left leg has never fully recovered from the earlier sciatica in
> September and October and is not only stiff but weaker than my
> right leg but both legs ache from deep within my hips to my knees.
> My right leg has ached so much for over three years, I cannot
> sleep on my right side at night any longer. I walk slower, and
> more carefully, as a result of some of this because I find, due
> to the stiffness in my legs, and the weakness in my left leg, that
> it is easier to lose my balance. So, as I say, some of this is
> back related and some, I am sure, is high sugar level related. My
> annual physical comes up March 10 and I have been going in every
> three months for an A1C blood sugar test. It was almost to the
> level a month ago where they wanted to put me on medication to
> lower my blood sugar. So, all these issues I will be relating to
> my doctor come March tenth.
>
> As I said, I mentioned all this to Brad recently and his
> wife, over the years, has been having very similar symptoms in her
> hands and back. She found a chair that starts at about 850
> dollars, an office chair, and a 200 dollar adjustable keyboard
> tray and all this has improved her similar symptoms a great deal.
> We can get the same chair here in Denver, Sandy found out this
> week, and I know for a fact that the keyboard positioning, and
> level, has something to do with the feelings in my hands because I
> used to have a very high metal office desk, a huge one, and my
> hands were up high when I typed. When I got a new wooden desk for
> my office I use now, the pain went away for probably 4 years but
> now has returned and is worse due to other physical problems. So,
> the bottom line is, by the time we pay for whatever fabric we want
> on the office chair, and the keyboard tray, we are looking at well
> over a thousand dollars. I sure don't want to give up typing but > if you have been getting very short messages from me of late, it
> is because my hands hurt too much to type for very long at a time.
> So, please pray because we have no credit cards any longer and
> frankly, we have no credit either. Our income tax return has to
> go for other things and although we will be getting 1200 dollars,
> or more, back from the government in May or June, by then, we'll
> need that for other bills most likely. So your prayers would be
> appreciated. Frankly, I have been more than a little concerned
> all about this and that doesn't help either.
>
> Phil.
> 
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