According to Wikipedia ….

A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. A mechanical wave is that which propagates through a medium due to the restoring forces it produces upon deformation. There also exist waves capable of traveling through vacuum, including electromagnetic radiation and probably gravitational radiation. Waves travel and transfer energy from one point to another, often with little or no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium (that is, with little or no associated mass transport); they consist instead of oscillations around almost fixed locations.

I’ve often used the WAVE metaphor as it relates to Irene’s experience with chronic, 24/7 nausea since June of 2007.  We’re now using a 1-10 scale for me to better comprehend how debilitating the unrelenting nausea is at any particular moment.

WAVES are illustrative of Irene’s nausea experience.  There are smaller waves, like a ripple, and there are colossal waves like the tidal wave.  Irene’s nausea comes in random WAVES …. but the OCEAN OF NAUSEA is ever present, and the waves persist like a rising and lowering tide.

How she courageously faces this challenge with a buoyant attitude, strong faith and a smiling face are inarguable evidences of His enabling Holy Spirit.

Wikepedia’s WAVE description is very apropos: A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy.

Irene’s experience with NAUSEA certainly fits that description but after facing it for nearly two years it is also in a category of its own.  It’s difficult to truly grasp the reality of what Irene deals with 24/7.

Caminando con Fé

Dave

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Colossians 1:15-23

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

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Thanks for checking in…!!! 

Today, Irene and I attended the memorial service in honor of Ben Bernstein at the Marin Country Club.  About 120 people celebrated Ben’s courageous spirit, recalling his great sense of humor and fervor for life.  Irene and I met Ben and his bride, Deb, many months ago at UCSF where we learned that Ben was battling Primary Amyloidosis.

Irene has been significantly challenged by an inflamed escalation of nausea for the last few days.  It is so fierce that she telephoned the kidney dialysis center late this afternoon to see what they might recommend to mitigate the unyielding discomfort.  The nausea comes in WAVES, vacillating between 6 – 9+ on a 1 – 10 scale.

We’re hoping for relief soon.

Those who sow in tears
will reap with songs of joy.
He who goes out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy
Psalm 126:5-6a

Thanks for caring,
Dave

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