Greetings my dears! I hope this e-mail finds you doing wonderful and celebrating the beginning of a new year! We anticipate GREAT in 2008! We wanted to send a quick update. We probably will not be e-mailing for a while (we'll give your knees a rest ;) Thank you so much for your prayers. As some of you know, we appointments Thursday, Jan 3rd, and Friday, Jan 11th... The appt on Jan 3rd was scheduled to be an ultrasound to see how good the follicles were looking and schedule an IUI. Unfortunately, doubling the Clomid this round (a whole other story on that), over-stimulated my ovaries and there was a cyst - not what we wanted to see! He didn't even schedule the IUI and said that normally a cyst like this inhibits or prevents ovulation altogether. Big time bummer! But the bloodwork showed no real 'danger' in the hyperstimulation. The appt Jan 11th was to do another ultrasound and bloodwork to see how everything looked, and to try to see if by the slim chance I actually ovulated. Well, this ultrasound showed 4-5 large cysts now, not just 1! Yikes! The Clomid kept kicking in and caused more overstimulation.
So... very long story short, we are probably going to do a HSG (tubal dye x-ray) and possibly more tests this next round, allow my body and ovaries to recover from the medicine, and then go from there...
We were hoping that this would increase our chances, but instead it decreased them to almost nill. While we see the 'medical facts' before us, I can't help but to continue to think of ole' Lazarus! Isnt' it incredible how Jesus waited until 4 days after Lazarus had died before going to him? That story just grips my heart - the Sovereignty of our Lord Jesus - All God and All Man - he was a dear friend of Lazarus' and we see his heart in how He wept, and yet His Deity in how He raised Lazarus from the dead - and the faith of Mary and Martha - they sent for Jesus b/c they just KNEW that He would save him... yet the most significant thing to me is why He waited 4 days (I'm just going off the ole memory here so double check me on this) : in those days they believed that the spirit hovered above the deceased body for 3 days... and others had already come by to give their condolecences to Mary and Martha... If Jesus would have come a day, or two, or three earlier, many would have dismissed the miracle and pointed to another reason - By Jesus waiting until there were no other options, others had to behold God's Glory at the works He had done. They had to give Him all the credit! We are often so quick to say things are 'coincidence' or 'luck' ... and give credit or reason to something of this world... when it is the Lord at work and He who deserves the praise and acknowledgement.
While these circumstances look grim, our faith is above circumstances, b/c our faith is in the Living God who knows all and can do all. He may not have this time to be the time, but we totally believe that this could be a set up for Him to come through in a blaze of Glory!
If you are wondering what to pray for:
- Please pray, first and foremost, for God to get ALL the Glory through this - from us and from others. HE is the Giver of Life, the doctor is an instrument. We rely on our Messiah, not our medicine! We serve such an Amazing Father - we pray that for those who don't know Him personally would come to know Him in such a powerful way - and that the Lord would continue to use this journey that He is taking us through to not only strengthen our hearts, but all of those that are close to us and close to the situation. We know there are many others suffering so greatly - suffering that our minds and hearts cannot even touch - We don't want to be consumed in 'our trial' but rather even more aware of those around us that need love, prayer, and compassion. God comforts us not to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. May we comfort, through Christ, others that are hurting. May we rejoice with others through the suffering. Joy is not the absence of crisis, but the presence of Christ.
Other prayer requests:
- For miraculous healing, in my whole body, and especially the ovaries
- For clear discernment and direction
- For a miracle that this time would be the time, be it God's will, despite all cirumstances
Thank you. We love you.
"Rejoice in the Lord always!" Phil 4:4
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