Simply Trust - Oct 2019
Simply Trust
Health update - ENT appointment- Hendersonville NC!
As I've mentioned in previous blog posts that I have severe allergies. In Oct of 2019 we went to NC for 3 weeks to get me out of the southern California santa Ana winds. The Santa Ana winds are my nemesis.
Our Santa Ana winds typically start to hit in September/October.
Before we left for the trip I had been to my regular alternative doctor. The day we saw her was a good day for me allergy wise. She looked in my nose and said I was almost completely blocked up. She said I was a 4. Which is the worst number. She said she would hate to see me on a bad day. She didn't even want to know what my bad days were like. When she said I was a 4 it dawned on mom that I probably needed another sinus surgery. This would be sinus surgery #4. So we went to the ENT and he looked in my nose for 2 seconds and said yep, she needs surgery. He also told us that my septum which was deviated years ago but I had fixed was deviated again. Grrrr. I didn't even know such things could happen. So we start the process of calling doctors and getting the surgery details worked out. We were hoping that I could have sinus surgery before the trip, but it wasn't working out. But it was a total God thing. You'll see why in a minute.
Things weren't going through with the insurance etc. We kept running into road blocks. I can't even tell you how bad my health was before the trip. Because I wasn't able to have sinus surgery before the trip, all we could do was pray that I wouldn't be miserable on the trip, and that I would get at least a little bit of relief. Well, let me just say that my health on the trip blew us all away. It far exceeded our wildest hopes.
So we leave for the trip, and I kid you not within 24 hours I'm a different person. It was like my allergies almost completely went away. I was out going for hikes everyday and going places and living the life that I never had.
Clean non smoggy air and a humid climate makes all the difference.
I start telling Mom that I feel like the swelling was way down and I was open. I just knew the swelling had gone down. I could feel it.
So mom gets the idea to take me to an ENT in NC while we're on the trip to see if the swelling really had gone down, or if my allergies were just under control and I was feeling better. So I looked up ENTs online and found one with the highest rating. We call and make an appointment and we manage to get in on very short notice. A total miracle. We get to the ENT and he does the scope and looks in my nose with a camera and the results are exactly what I thought they would be. He said the swelling is way down and I'm completely open!!!! That's a first for me!! This never happens in CA!!! Never!! We told the ENT we were trying to get me sinus surgery before the trip but it didn't happen. He said he would not recommend surgery because there's nothing physically wrong. He said it's not physical, it's medical. He said he would recommend a change of environment. Meaning different state!! We told him that's exactly why we were out there. We were checking out the area as a possible place to move to in a couple of years.
I pretty much now have doctors orders to get out of CA! When we got back to the air bnb where we were staying, we called dad who'd already flown back home, and we told him the news. Dad says well, once you get home (to CA) I guess we'd better get the house ready to sell! What?? Are we actually going to move to NC?? You'll have to wait and see. Rest of story will be in future blog posts.
I love the song "Simply Trust" from the Patch adventure
"Operation Arctic Viking Invasion" because it relates to this story.
The song lyrics go like this:
"Sometimes the path is steep, the waters deep, the way seems hard and long Sometimes we wonder why- we question if His Word has lead us wrong Don't get stuck in a rut, you gotta look up. Turn from worry and doubt, and you will find out, there's a better route. His ways are higher, His thoughts are wiser, from the beginning to the end. So I will follow today, tomorrow and even after then. I will simply trust in Him. Step by step, day by day, I will follow the narrow way. Step by step, day by day, I will follow the narrow way. Sometimes I lose my way, I turn and stray from what God has for me. I try and figure out all on my own, just where I wanna be. Don't get stuck in a rut, you gotta look up. Turn from worry and doubt, and you will find out, there's a better route His ways are higher, His thoughts are wiser, from the beginning to the end So I will follow today, tomorrow, and even after then. I will simply trust in Him. Step by step, day by day, I will follow the narrow way. Step by step, day by day, I will follow and simply trust in Him."
The chorus of the song really sums this up. That God's ways are higher and his thoughts are wiser than ours. He knows what's best for us and we need to Simply Trust in him. God purposely kept me from being able to have sinus surgery because he knew it wasn't necessary.
Proverbs 16:9
“A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”