My daughter was found in the middle of the night, unconscious and seizing on her kitchen floor.

@Livingwell Im sorry you had to go through that! How can they not know?

@Livingwell This is so sad. I'm so sorry this happened to you. I wish you had gotten a second opinion right away. This doctor could have killed you.

@LadyGrace You have to be your own advocate. It was the second time I went to the ER for that issue.

@Livingwell you are so right. You certainly do have to be your own advocate and I am certainly practicing that and taking care of my own health. One time I went in with heart palpitations, as my heart was beating just crazy, hard, and erratic. It was just jumping all over the place and would not stop. The doctor immediately concluded that I had heart trouble and tried to put me on heart medication. I said there's nothing wrong with my heart and then another doctor said it was all my imagination about my heart. What idiots! I went home and did my own research and found that I had Wilson syndrome, every symptom on the list. As soon as I treated myself and started taking iodine along with iodide, I was in perfect condition and my palpitations went away. Completely away. If I had taken that heart medication without having any problems with my heart, that medication would have given me heart trouble! What an idiot!!

@LadyGrace Some of those heart meds will cause diabetes. My aunt got it about 6 weeks after starting on heart meds. I had a supervisor who said the same thing happened to him. I asked my sister who was a nurse about it and she said there is a percentage of patients using that same drug (I forgot the name now, this was about 40 years ago) will develop diabetes and they don’t have any way to tell who will or won’t get it. It’s just an extra level of medical stress and problems to complicate their lives. Yes we need to do our own research and be our own advocates. And most doctors absolutely hate that.

@LadyGrace I’m not sure but my sister seemed to have some of those problems when she was younger. She was found to be allergic to eggs and any food from the onion family and stopped eating them. Sulfur in those foods helps to keep copper from accumulating in the body. It was a few years later she was diagnosed with bipolar disease and made me wonder if it was due to copper accumulation due to not getting sulfur in her diet.

@cherokeepatti that's a beautiful message sister. And so true. I believe God has given you special wisdom and blessings. My heart goes out to your sister and you for going through so much pain and struggles. I pray he Comforts your heart and gives you peace beyond all understanding, in Jesus. Amen

@LadyGrace thank you so much

@cherokeepatti Always, Patti. 💖🤗🙏

@LadyGrace For the last couple decades I’ve believed that there was a reason for having to go through so many trials as much as it hurt. There is always something to be learned and relief when each episode is over and I believe that’s how we grow and become stronger and build faith to endure what’s to come. Also the reason I can be so stubborn about certain things and stand my ground

@cherokeepatti

That's true wisdom and Faith, Patti. True understanding. We may not know every reason behind our trials in this life right now but the second we cross over we shall know the unknown. We will also see that was all worth it. After all, Jesus was not even spared of suffering. He suffered so that we could know that he knows exactly what our stuffings are and our trials; that he was human in every way though he was God as well. That he is a not a God without feelings and empathy for us.

I call it God's Waiting Room, which I may also share in a post shortly. There is a plethora of things we can learn in God's waiting room. Sometimes we have to call timeout in the Lord and sit in his waiting room, perhaps because we have gotten ahead of him and we need to learn patience and visit with him more. But even Jesus was not spared hardships, yet they were so necessary and he knew that He needed them, in order to learn certain lessons as he grew up and matured in Spirit. They were all for his good. They are all for our good as well, though we may not realize or understand that at times. There are so many things we can learn in God's waiting room. Sometime we just get ahead of God and rush into things and God has to slow us down and help us take things slower and more thoughtfully so we don't get hurt in the end. I cannot tell you how many great lessons I have learned while in God's waiting room. All so valuable, I treasure them to this day. I could not have done without them though they were painful that I'm very grateful for them and I wouldn't change that for anything in the world. They made me who I am today.

Sufferings have their benefit. There are never meant to harm us. Only to teach us and help us along in life before things get out of hand and hurt us even more. Those painful moments Made Me Stronger and able to persevere the worst without crumbling under the pain and pressure. I've learned what is important in life and why. These lessons are never to hurt us but to help us. We can see this in Jeremiah 29:11. Without them, we could never learn and grow in the Lord and in our lives. They are such a blessing. They are not problems; they are challenges and God helps us Learn and Grow through each and every one, as we trust him. When we know better, we can do better. It's only sad, when we are unteachable and do not benefit from our lesson nor learn from it. In this way, we can also help others, who may be struggling with the same thing and be a blessing to them, by what we learned. After all, I believe we are here to help each other and love each other. If we cannot do that here how will we do that in heaven?

I so love this verse and it has seen me through the darkest nights and most painful moments. There are two of them: