It is possible, Vinny, but I'll know more when I go to the doctor in a
month.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: New Prayer Request For Phil


> Phil,
> Do you think it's carple tunnel?  When I over use my tuning hand, I get
that
> burning etc.
> Praying for you.
> Vinny
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:08 PM
> Subject: New Prayer Request For Phil
>
>
> >     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 year 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.
> >
> >
> > It Sounds Like God To Me.
> > www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
> >
> >
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