Thread by @bookofkatherine

PROCEDURE TODAY!!! It's been 23 weeks since my last procedure. I only had three last year after receiving my big Functional Neurological Diagnosis. Today both Sacroiliac Joints will receive 4-8 giant needles each. It's a GIANT procedure and very dangerous. It takes GREAT SKILL.⬇️

2/4 My last procedure was back in August of 2021. As you can see in the thread I wrote that day, the doctors worked on 10 LEVELS of my spine. That giant procedure enabled me to last the longest I ever have between injections: nearly 6 months!!! A miracle!!

https://twitter.com/bookofkatherine/status/1429956738896343044

3/4 Today I'm receiving the injections that started Book of Katherine, and put her on her feet for the first time in years: the Sacroiliac Joints. The test let me walk for two hours!!!
I'M WALKING!!! | SI JOINT BLOCK TEST | Ch 23 via @YouTube

4/4 Of course, insurance won't pay for these life changing injections, which is why I write and research for you everyday. I am 100% supported by you, which is why I credit you will my against-the-odds success! If you'd like to help, a $1 goes a long way!
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AT THE HOSPITAL!!! And I drove the whole way- again!!!!! I'm not as nervous today. Maybe it was driving again. My neck and spine had a much easier time moving- the pain used to be too great to dare driving, but today was a great day. A straight drive helps- not like Monday. Whew!

I am once again praying that His will is done. They can't use things like anesthesia because they need my feedback when placing the needle into tiny openings in my spine. (Ok. Now I'm nervous!!!)

Gotta check in!!! Send love please!!!! Aaaaaaahhhh!!!

That guy in the pink shirt just offered to check my husband in at snother desk. I still can't check in with him (my legs get worn out from the long walk from the parking lot) but last timd I had to be wheeled in! Progress! *My husband's legs on the R, my walker w coat in front ;)

He has great legs, right? Don't answer that. Lol. I already know!!! They give me something to push my walker towards!!!

I'M OUT!!! Aaaand!!! No procedure. Another long story to tell you on @prophetsjournal. So! We are sitting here staring at the snow. I know I have a paper to write for insurance. But for now, we're just talking with God. That's gonna be a while.💔

Back home, positioned in bed and curious/excited about the future. Our doctor says he'd like to try the block that let me walk for 2 hours in that video. He also said there's been a jump in technology since 2017. We're supposed to call next week for a new appointment.

In the meantime, he said that printing out a record of how the ladt round of SI joint injections improved my life. Well- considering my speech returned after those first injections, I'd say that will be easy. The challenge will be completing a paper on it. But that's good.

I need challenges. My disabilites are a prohect I know I can conquer with the team I've been graced with: you, my husband, my insiders, my cats and the incredible doctors at several facilities.

There's no question about it: there will be a procedure. But which one? Insurance has clammed up under Biden. I keep forgetting that I was injected, diagnosed and walked during Trump!!!

Perhaps it isn't fair. But I've learned a lot about fairness these last few years.Was it fair that Adam & Eve were only give 1 single law to follow? Was it fair for Eve to hoist her choice upon all the creatures, leading them into extremely difficult lives? Waa temptation fair?

I watched the praying mantis named Kiwi on YouTube. Dear God, childbirth killed her in 7 months! Five labours with five eggs! And all I could think was, "Satan approached the animals first! They fell jealous and turned on their God-given humans. Humans named them! But still---

Satan knew they were the weakest link, Eve the second. All of them ate of the fruit before Adam. And so they warred against the sons of Adam before the Flood. And now they do so again. Where I am, women dominate. Men pass through town, or live on the edges....

Anyhow, I have learmed that He is still God. He didn't change. We did. When I put today in His hands, I knew that opened everything wide up. I knew anything could happen. And it did.

And though this flesh may be sad, for the pain is still here, my soul knows that the pain may be eliminated for a much longer period this way. I must have patience. But patience isn't easy. It takes practice, grace and time. Thank you for giving me time.

Let's see what happens next.

Of course, experience says these new treatments will cost even more, so today's donations will wait quietly in Paypal until it is time. At least that burden is lifted. And it puts you there with me in the room, talking with these physicians who lead the field.

He said my stories would help further future medicine and treatment. And after all th ways you've helped me, I jumped at the chance to give back. "You want it single or double spaced?" I asked. "Double," came the reply. "You're on." No one deserves life without this medicine.