Thanks for praying me through Escape. Students heard about Jesus and many responded to the Sprit's moving. Our speaker talked a lot about forgiveness, both God's forgiveness and our need to ask for and offer forgiveness to the people in our lives. Many students went home and had some pretty deep conversations with family members on the topic of forgiveness. Praise God for not only stirring hearts, but giving students boldness to process and act on His stirrings. Our Ramstein students came home desiring to be known as a "youth group that likes to laugh together and be serious about studying God's Word together." We've got a pretty great group.
For the first time in many years, we made 0 trips to the hospital! 274 people and no injuries that a band aid or pepto couldn't take care of. Thank you Lord!
March Madness... but not the fun basketball kind
We started the month of March off with an Amazing Race like scavenger hunt for our high schoolers. The hunt took us all over Ramstein and some surrounding towns, to forests, climbing walls, lakes and abandoned logging trails. My team came in first!
And here's where the craziness begins...
I went to bed the night of the scavenger hunt exhausted. I chalked it up to running around all day. The next morning I woke up with a fever and headache, and proceeded to lay in bed for two days. My fever broke, but I continued to have a headache, swollen lymph nodes and feel tired. The following weekend, my landlord stopped by to tell me about some work he's going to do on our place. In the middle of the conversation, I felt myself get dizzy and lightheaded, and the next thing I knew, I woke up on the ground. I fainted and fell face first on the floor, splitting my chin open. I ended up going to the ER and got 8 stitches! It's healed quiet nicely though, I posted a few pictures below (sorry if it make you queazy).
A few days later I broke out in hives and was still struggling with fatigue. I finally decided that I should go see a doctor and get checked out. The doctor ordered a very comprehensive lab check, and they took 3 tubes of blood. I went back in a few days later, expecting to be told I had some sort of vitamin or iron deficiency, and to my surprise, they said all my vitamin levels were very normal. However, my liver enzymes came back abnormally high. The doctor ordered a few more tests and I went home to sleep. The labs came back negative, and I continued to sleep a lot. A few mornings later, I woke up with white spots on the back of my throat and after googling and webMD'ing, I went back to the clinic fairly confident that I had mono. (Did you know flu like symptoms, skin rashes, white spots and excessive sleeping are ALL symptoms of mono?) The doctor ran a few more tests, and called the the following day to confirm that I tested positive for mono.
Case solved. I was pretty thankful to have a firm diagnosis, as the week of waiting and extra tests was a bit nerve-wracking. I have no idea how I contracted it. There's no medicine, only sleep. It's estimated to last anywhere from 3-6 weeks. I'd suspect that I'm about halfway into it, though I'm not certain of then it officially began. I'd appreciate prayers for good rest. Please also pray for my co-workers, Kevin and Sharon, as they pick up a heavier load since I've been pretty absent from the office, and unable to help at youth groups and Bible studies.
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