Overcoming Faith Over Fear!!!

I am a survivor of congenital heart disease TOF CHF CHD my blog is to encourage others with this same diagnosis to overcome with low-sodium yummy meals on my recipe page!

Thursday, January 25, 2024

ICU crises❤️🫢😭anniversary!!


 I am I see you crisis was six weeks ago!!!!  2024 is the year I will never forget !!!   

Here is a brief  rundown  of our year together “ 

Jesus took our sweet mommy to her heavenly home 🏑 I knew mommy wasn’t going to make it much longer so happy I saw her through it all weather and health permitting last year I didn’t let mommy go through dementia alone neither did her sister my aunti she found Chelsea place and it was a memory care center !”  

It was the best one around and so close to me and Rob !   It was really two street lights away !! 

Then I got hurt at Chelsea’s a  a resident pulled my arm and it gradually got worse over time so I waited way to long to go checked out I was diagnosed with a frozen   Shoulder !!!  

It hurt 😒 so badly to the point I needed help getting dressed !! & having my husband take my showers 🚿 with me it was horrible painful !   I did go in and got sterioid  shots a few it helped so much & finally I got approved for  PT physical therapy! I started a few and then I got really sick 😭

With bronchitis   Every year I get bronchitis and flue shots and yes my covid boosters I had mine sqedualed covid and flue shots but since I came down very hard with Bronchitis and Covid  I canceled 😞 







I also  took the home test it said negative on the covid tests it said negative  ! 

But my family wanted to take me in sooner to the er I said no we will be in clinic that following morning so we waited it was really almost too late !⏰  

So they got me in as soon as they could   I was so sick I was sleeping three days and forgotten my medications πŸ’Š I was so week I was barley hanging on  !  

I knew it was serious ! 

They said my covid came on at the end of my bronchitis. My body was just too weak and that’s how I got it. I will never forget it. I didn’t have any appetite at home. I barely ate anything. I couldn’t taste anything and I was sleeping literally three days.!   My husband and my aunt was very worried about me and they wanted to take me and right away which I should’ve listened to myself!  


As soon as they got me in we waiting all afternoon We waited all afternoon for a A-room ICU   I was extremely sick 😷 I needed 15 leaders of Oxygen  and I had 9 pounds of fluid on my heart ❤️ and lungs 🫁 ! 


I was a hot mess  they hooked me up with tubes and Ivs very quickly once I was in the room there was about 9 doctors and nurses all talking to me at once  my aunt was in the room with me all day and late into the night !”


It was so scary 😨   They we’re all great talking to me distracting me asking me fun questions keeping me from not being fearful 😨  

We talked about my love of quilting and cooking and my blog they all wanted to be in the blog they were so fun 🀩 about that so here’s the photo of the the best cardiologist team most of them !!   



They were all keeping me calm and giggles during this scary 🫣 time in my life !!  

I was admitted in the 6 and got to go home on the 13!      It’s only been 6 weeks anniversary a little over !   Wow amazing how Jesus has carried me through it all !!  


One thing I realize. Mommy and I we are always a good team. No matter what I know she passed away but she was my gardian angel πŸ˜‡ watching over me the whole time Jesus was giving me the strength to hold on. 
This has been my new special verse  lately whole new meaning in a strong way. It’s funny how scriptures do that for us we can read it year after year it always means something new to us. !!! That’s the mystery of Gods word to us !!  


One year I did my own bible study πŸ“– I looked on line with all the verses that talks about the heart ❤️   The heart is what God loves the most !!”    He knows all hearts πŸ’•   

 




Today I had a great fallow up appointment  ! Did a EKG  and a device check my normal shows  short afibs !!  They don’t need to change any meds no need to do heart Cath ! The first week of follow up was scary I was going into dangerous afibs but that was only for a short time !!! Praise Jesus !

 I encourage you what ever your heart ❤️  health is please πŸ™ walk with Jesus in your health journey   He is there with you through it all just trust Him !    It’s scary 🫣 but he will give you peace as you walk through your trials “    

I remember lying there with nothing I can do but talk to Jesus “ 

One of the nurses says she says  say so much. How did you make it through?   I looked at her and said with a smile it was Jesus !!!!   He helped me through it all !!!  

She smiles and said to me I can tell it shows !!!!  πŸ˜˜πŸ₯°πŸ˜πŸ˜‡

Seriously God will bring us to a place where all he wants us to do is to surrender our all to him !” He will restore our pain with goodness in results !”   Nothing we go through is in vain  somehow Gods plan for each of us not to make us sick but brings out good in the outcome   

I have been born with congenital heart ❤️ disease  it was on my fathers side and my mom’s side of the family my grandfather had it  and my dad as well “  I just learn to manage it with eating rifht & taking care of me as much as I know how too !! 

That’s why God has led me to write this blog  to show others there is hope overcoming heart failure !  


God uses great doctors and medications  

To manage everything is to be in a low salt diet 

Always ask your doctors what limit daily is yours salt limit mine is 2000 day mg   


It gets easier as time goes on it took me years of learning to cook this way !!!

I started doing doing lots of research on all the items I like too cook with and look at the nutrition facts label 🏷️. 

I know it takes for ever at the store but I started on line it’s much easier and quicker !  Then I can go to the store and grab what I need  I hope you enjoy my blog and try my recipes you can change it up how ever it fits you remember we’re all different !”


Enjoy your journey 

Don’t give up !!! ****❤️πŸ™πŸ“–

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