Prayer Request For My Family

[Terry Beeson]

As most of you know, my step-daughter was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes at age ten. She is now 12 and this has been a huge strain on our family. It doesn't help matters that I am out of work but that's not the big issue.

Bills have piled up for medical costs - doctors, tests, hospitals, etc. We have insurance, but still the costs of the deductible, meds, etc. Her dad is suppose to pay half, but he is not keeping up his end of the court order very well.

Being 12 is hard enough. She is sensetive and has issues with some of her friends at school who honestly are just being kids (and we know that kids can be very cruel - even when they don't really mean to be.) So there is that added stress. Then pile on the diabetes. She wants to be "normal" and she does not want to be diabetic anymore. She has become rebellious and has lashed out a few times. She is in counselling for that and doing a bit better, but still has issues.

Now add the fact that she has been having a lot of problems with high and low blood sugars at school. Her glucose levels are rarely normal and rarely just high or low. They go from one extreme to the other with no reason for that to happen. She has had low sugar, eaten a house full of food, and gone down even more... She has spent as much time in the nurse's office and home as she has in the classroom. Of course, her grades are suffering because of that. That just adds more stress which affects blood sugar levels. It's a vicious cycle....

So NOW add one more to the mix. While I was at Conclave, Cindy called and said that the Doctor (her endocrinologist - diabetes doctor) had called and they want her blood to do some tests. There is a suspicion she has some sort of auto-immune system disease (Lupus, MS, or other.) This could explain the glucose level problems. They are running the blood tests now and we should see the results in a few days. She has not been told anything about this because she has enough on her plate. Her mom just told her the doctor wanted some blood and because she has had that done so many times over the past 18 months, she didn't question it.

It is bad enough and certainly more important that she is OK. But this has also had a negative affect on my and Cindy's relationship. I won't go into detail, but it is just a big strain that has made its way into that part of our lives.

OK... I'll stop venting and get to the point...

I would appreciate your prayers for the three of us. I especially pray that this is NOT any kind of disease as mentioned but simply a phase complicated by puberty or something like that. Also, pray that Cindy and I can get our relationship back on track.

We need a lot of prayer right now. The Bible says that God will never put any more on us than we can bear, but I feel like I'm at my limit... and I don't want to feel that way...