Kathy,

Have they checked your thyroid? Hypo and Hyper Thyroid can do weird stuff, 
part of which is blood pressure issues, weight gain, fatigue etc.

Brad


on 09:12 AM 6/17/2006, Kathy Du Bois said:

Hey Phil,
         I really appreciate this testimony.  I'm finding myself having to 
begin with a medical issue of my own that has really caught me off 
guard.  When I went in for my annual check up about three weeks ago, my 
blood pressure was a little high.  I was asked to keep coming in for 
checks and, basically, it is bounsing around.  Yesterday, I had another 
exam and it was really high, to the point of scary.  As they were asking 
me questions, I lead a pretty healthy life, I don't drink soft drinks, or 
much junk food and I walk about three miles a day,  so there isn't much I 
can do, but take more blood tests and continue to work on losing weight, 
which I hope will help, but now, it looks like I will have to be using a 
blood pressure medication.  I've always dreaded the day when I would have 
to start taking drugs to stay, "normal," whatever that is.  Since I deal 
with a lot of older people who seem to practically take drug cocktales, it 
doesn't look pleasant.  I had always figured that that day, of drugs, was 
a long way off for me.  Thanks for the reminder of Jesus.  Of course, I 
know that, but it is nice to here it out loud, from someone else.
Kathy  whose hoping that I won't need to be on it for long


At 01:13 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:
Virgie,

That's great.  Years ago I suddenly became ill.  I felt like I was getting
the stomach flue.  I finally went into the bathroom to up chuck and there 
on
my knees, starting to heave, as it were, I called out loudly, 
"Jesus!"  That
was the only thing I could speak at that second.  I suddenly felt my 
stomach
settle and nothing happened, that is, I didn't vomit.  I went back out of 
my
office to work and for an hour, a voice in my thoughts, sort of, kept
saying, it won't last.  I kept rebuking that voice and claiming I was 
healed
by the stripes of Jesus.  Within an hour, I never had any more 
symptoms.  No
one can tell me that just the name of Jesus doesn't work.  Sure, I have 
been
sick hundreds of times since that day, not to mention even things in 
recent
weeks with my back.  I still seek Jesus in each situation, though, and 
maybe
tomorrow, I will post to the list what happened concerning my back pain 
when
I began to amend Wednesday.  It is quite miraculous.  Something 
spiritually
unusual happened to me during these weeks of perpetual back pain that I'll
tell about later.

Phil.