Day 20 again ( I think I was off a day)

Good evening..

I slept until 2pm today, I guess I needed some healing time. I haven't accomplished much today, Probably because I slept all day. The Kids and I watched some cartoons on the computer today, it was nice to just relax with the kids instead of being stressed on how I am feeling, and getting up every 10 minutes. After 8 years of having chronic pain in my bladder I forgot what it was like just to relax. To be able to enjoy my kids without wanting to scream. I wish I would of been ready to hear about a diet like this so many years ago, in just a very short time I could have had relief. Let me tell you of the 3rd miraculous healing that had happened to me, But the 4th is another story.

I had my 3rd surgery on my bladder to stretch it, in April 2008. My favorite doctor, Dr. Tann, came in to tell us how the surgery went. With tears in his eyes he explained that he spent a long time trying to stretch my bladder, and it wouldn't stretch. He said that I had a very extreme case of IC and it would only shrink smaller and eventually I would have to have a external bladder in the near future. Well God had other plans for me. After surgery my bladder would not work I mean I could not pee. The next 23 hours were the most painful 23 hours of my life. I just had my bladder stretched about 100cc, so now it held 200cc of urine. A normal bladder holds anywhere from 1000 to 1600cc. of urine. With IC, the bladder lining is gone...it looks like bloody hamburger, with large pock marks in it. Every 30 minutes I would attempt to go to the bathroom and I was only able to pee 20-50 cc. with alot of blood. The nurses would bring into the room a bladder scanner to measure how much liquid was in the bladder and it would register at most anywhere from 160-205 cc's. We played this game for 23 hours I thought I was going to die. I thought that having to go pee every 10 minutes and the pain I was experiencing was bad. Wow I had another thing coming. 23 hours of not being able to pee, I was waiting and wanting to die. Dr. Tann came in the room and said "we are going to have to put a catheter in before the bladder explodes." (I hate catheters because they always back flush the urine back into my bladder and I can't handle that pain.) I went to try to go to the bathroom one more time. I had a very important conversation with God at that moment. I cried out to the Lord and said, Lord I thought you were going to heal me thru this surgery, You must have other plans for me. I am sorry that I told You what to do and how to do it, and if you want to heal me some other way... well, who am I to tell You, the Creator of the universe what to do. Please forgive me! Just let me pee!!! Right then, that moment, I pushed really hard and screamed in pain, I heard a ripping sound and felt it too. Something happened, I didn't pee but something painful happened. The nurses and Dr Tann came in to see if everything was alright. They did another bladder scan and my bladder stretched to 500cc's. No one could believe it except me ( because, I only knew about the prayer between me and the Lord at the time of the healing) My Husband was in the hallway and it just so happened that all the nurses that had attended me were at the nurses station right then. They were discussing how, they could have gotten all the volume tests wrong on my bladder. One said "We measured wrong 15 times, 15 times. The machine must be broken!" so they checked it out and it was working. Dr. Tann asked everyone to leave my room except Mike and I and he told us how he had seen 3 miracles in his carreer and that this was the 4th! This is medically impossible and is only by the hand of God. I had a very long recovery 6 weeks with a catheter.End of scary/wonderful/healing story!! Dr Tann and I have become friends and he is very special to me.

So have a green juice or smoothie today and feel better.

Until tomorrow

Amberlea