There is a girl named
Kaitlyn Rushton that I’d like to introduce you to. Kaitlyn graduated
my first year at Millar. She was the prayer force leader of the student body,
leading us on Tuesdays in prayer, and encouraging us outside of that time slot
too. I soon learnt that Kaitlyn warred
with an unknown health problem where she goes into fits of seizers, the worst I
think any person could experience…
sometimes she would be conscious and not, other times all she could do to relieve
the pain was scream. It is a very real part of Kaitlyn’s life.
She
recently shared more about her struggles with what doctors in Kansas could
identify as Limes disease and possibly some parasites; what some previous
doctors said was only “in her head”. The
disease has taken its toll and worse on Kaitlyn. Some mornings she wakes up paralyzed,
unable to even speak, for half an hour or so.
YET she is still as on fire for God as EVER! She wrote me a lovely
letter, and she hardly talked about herself, but wrote to build me up! I am richly
encouraged to see that she can see God’s GOODNESS every day, see His strength,
His Love… even in
the midst of struggle! What a testimony, and how Glorifying to God!
Friends, I have written you about Kaitlyn
because she needs prayer! Please Join me with many others in lifting our sister in Christ!
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Here is her Update letter that she wrote...
I never would have imagined a few years ago that I would be in the state I am presently. So many things that I easily took for granted are now things that I miss significantly. Each day now I diligently thank my Loving Father in Heaven for what I do have, and though it looks differently than what we would imagine a 21 year old girl would have, I realize that His ways are not mine and His ways are far greater.
My days and nights are saturated with intense sickness and great weakness, so much so that walking or even standing is something that I cannot do alone. My mom now has become my 24-hour caregiver. Each day I lay in bed unable to often even read or talk. I experience around 45 different symptoms now, each week seemingly to get more. Some of the symptoms being extreme fatigue and weakness, pressure headaches, sensitive stomach and nausea, trouble sleeping, fogginess, lack of comprehension and focus, memory loss, feeling extremely ill and severe hypoglycemia. I am incapable to work or really leave the house at all. I also have episodes where I go unconscious for 2 to 3 hours and go in and out of vicious convulsing and shaking. In the past months I have also experienced bouts where I go completely paralyzed for the time span of approximately half hour to an hour. It has now been 24 months of being extremely sick and doctor after doctor have turned me away, not being able to figure out what has taken over my once energetic body.
My journey now takes me to Kansas to where I will undergo extensive tests for Lyme's Disease and other related diseases, I pray that I will find a solution or are pointed in a direction that will satisfy the quest to find a long awaited diagnosis.
“But I will sing of your strength; I will sing of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.” Psalm 59:16
Found copy at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/finding-a-medical-solution-for-kaitlyn/89102#sthash.Iotu7rCI.dpuf
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