Hey :)

I don't know how many of y'all know, but I have been in the hospital on and off a lot over the past few months. There has been varying reasons, but the scariest one is the inability to breathe.

Yup you read that right. Occasionally I am unable to breathe. It feels as if someone is stabbing me repeatedly in my ribs with red hot knives. Every time I take a breath, and my ribs move, excruciating pain shoots through my body. I subconsciously try to cope by breathing extremely light/not at all. The one time this happened, I passed out (this was actually today). Its kind of annoying, but the doctors think they know what is going on. they think i have something called costochondritis.

Costochondritis is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects ribs to the breastbone. The pain sometimes mimics that of a heart attack (or other heart problems).

So yes, occasionally I feel as if I am having a heart attack (which is severely scary!) but thankfully I am not. Unfortunately because of some of the symptoms I have, and how the pain is, I believe that the doctors are wrong with their diagnosis. But since I hate going to the doctors for any reason, I have not had my ribs rechecked out.

So as a summary of the past few months (medically wise) fake heart attacks, hospital visits, and refusing to see my regular physician. Hopefully I will gather the courage to go soon, but I do not know.... please pray we figure out what is going on!!



Let me leave you with the verse that gives me strength in these trials:"He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." ~Isaiah 40:29-31