Restless sleep. That’s becoming the norm these days. The neuropathy in her legs really bothers her especially at night. Last night during her sleep I rubbed the special cream on her legs, took our back massager and put it under her legs in an effort to relieve the neuropathy. Today I had a sweet friend bring me a TENS unit to try to help also.
Yesterday around 4:30 pm her right eye started having a lot of pain where she wouldn’t even open it. We’ve been applying the steroid, as well as the nighttime soothing ointment. Cold ice packs and heating packs are used in an effort to relieve the pain as well.
She’s not in a great mind space right now and we just keep telling her this is a speed bump on the road ahead to not get discouraged but to know that things will get better. There’s no doubt that this past week was a really rough week for her. She’s mad, she’s frustrated and she doesn’t understand why Jesus doesn’t fix this and keeps telling us that he doesn’t understand the pain that she’s going through. I told her this morning that he does understand and that he knows that she can handle this.
She continues to apologize to me and I tell her there is absolutely no reason for her to apologize that she has zero control over this. I tell her that I just wish I could take all the pain and agony away from her so she wouldn’t have to go through this. Through it all she still can be the sweetest little girl in the world.
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First posted on the OliviaStrong Facebook page.