Phil,

You bet we will be praying for wisdom and direction, plus of course diminished pain and God's healing.

Vicki


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From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, August 16, 2015 10:13 pm
Subject: Personal Prayer Request

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> Since mid March of this year, I have had a place at the bottom of my neck that feels like a twisted, or pulled, muscle.  When it is inflamed, it flickers off and on like flipping a switch.  The pain is so sharp, it feels like a big bumble bee stinging me.  By the way, stay away from bumble bees because they don't lose their stingers like honey bees do and they can sting you multiple times.  I knew a guy working on the farm once and he had a bumble bee fly up his overalls and jeans he was wearing.  He said it stung him 28 times before he finally crush the thing in the fabric of his clothing.  Ouch!  Anyway, after my last lower back surgery, this spot at the bottom of my neck, and partly on my shoulder where the two meet, hurt.  I figured it was just the left overs of the surgeries, I had 4 operations in three months on the exact same spot of my lower back, and it only hurt when I was eating.  I am right handed and it is my right shoulder and the cord running up the left and right sides up your neck.  Well, my right cord, whatever it is called, when really inflamed, feels like a thumb thickness piece of frozen rope and it hurts so badly, I have to hold my head over to the left and, this go around, I have to bend my head forward.  I think it is all related to my improper way I have to walk but I cannot change that due to the nerve damage in my feet and legs.  Most of you recall my neck surgery in January of   09.  The neurosurgeon told me after the 5 hour and 30 minute surgical procedure that there was another area of the vertebras in my neck that he considered working on but he said it looked very old, that is, like I was born with the spine that way so he did not want to fiddle with something that did not need something done to it due to it causing problems I don't need.  I have never had any reoccurring neurological physical bodily symptoms since that surgery so I'm trusting what I am asking for prayer about right now isn't related to what I just described.  When I was a kid, I wondered where the saying, you are a pain in the neck, came from.  Now I know, haw haw.  Anyhow, last Wednesday, I had a sudden flash of pain that took my breath away.  Now I know where the saying, it took my breath away, came from, too.  Haw haw.  Well, I'm not laughing but it is sort of funny.  I was doing very well yesterday, all day, and today but when I went to shave with my safety razor, when I tried shaving the right side of my face, pain shot across my shoulder and part way up my neck.  Fortunately, I was able to finish shaving but my neck feels like there is a horse collar on it and I still have the bumble bee effect that slams me without warning.  As I said, this really began, in ernest, last March and finally let up so it was tolerable.  It flared up last Wednesday and now I am getting tired of it.  I need prayer about what to do as far as it being seen by a doctor.  As I said, I personally think it has to do with my unbalanced way I have to walk and unless I am healed, or some surgeon can fix whatever is wrong, it does not appear it is going to heal on its own.  My youngest son's fiance is a massage therapist and she won't even touch me because she is afraid she might make, water is wrong, worse than it is now.  So, pray for healing and what I do about it now.
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> Phil.