The things that happen

I don't think a lot of my friends know this, but in march of 2002 I had a cornea transplant (thin membrane over the top of your iris, not the whole eye). That was to take care of the keratoconas in my left eye. The brief explanation is that KC causes your cornea to be cone shaped, like a mountain range, distorting the light and messing up your vision. Very annoying. The way to solve that is to wear a hard contact on your eye to smash that mountain down. Obviously a difficult situation and has caused me issues over the years. When my KC was changing rapidly, my left eye got to the point where a contact couldn't fit comfortably on my eye because the cone became too steep. We ended up going to a cornea specialist and got a transplant done. Since then I haven't had any major issues.

Until recently. Some of you know that a couple weeks, actually three or four weeks ago, I went in to the urgent care with red eye. They diagnosed conjuctivitis and prescribed an ointment. This turned out to not work and I went into the opthamologist on Monday and discovered an abrasion. Some antibiotic/steroid drops and it healed in a week. Well a couple weeks or so later I discovered bad vision and went into the doc. Another abrasion in about the same spot. A cannon antibiotic over the weekend seemed to take of it, but that Monday (actually, this last monday) he looked at it and was concerned about rejection (that my body was trying to reject the transplant). Steroid drops and see you on Wed. On Wednesday I seemed to be getting better and he just had me continue with the drops. Friday, yesterday, I go in for a
check up and he really doesn't like what he sees. Next step is to get an IV of steroids. So I go down to urgent care and get that done. Now I'm on the drops every hour and am just praying hard.

Work has been quite understanding about this. As long as I've been keeping them informed, they are working with me. I have some good managers and coworkers.

The interesting thing about this is that I could be extremely worried. It is the vision in my left eye that could be damaged after all! However, I have had a peace about this, a knowledge that God has me in His Hands and that this trial will be used for the glory of God. Even though this is messing up my financial situation, that I've had to miss work ALOT, that this does suck, I know that God is in control and cares for me and my needs.

I have watched Him in other people's lives and have seen Him bring them through medical conditions, seen the way their faith is strengthened, and I have seen His Name glorified. And really, that's what we're hear for, to see the Name of God high and lifted up!

I also know the value of prayer and am asking for it right now.
Pray that my body will not reject this transplant
Pray that the doctor will have wisdom from above in how to deal with this thing.
Pray that God will heal it fast and that there will be no doubt that it is Him
Pray for finances, that the money will come in to pay for this and other medical and car related expenses
Pray that God will continue to work in my heart, bringing me closer and closer to Him
And finally, pray that He will be Glorified through this whole thing!!!