Trying To Make A Difference In The World While Fighting Crohn's

It has been over 2 weeks since I last shared anything, and with it being 6:51 a.m. and I've been up all night in severe pain again from the Crohn's I thought I would write.

This coming Thursday was to be the end of me taking the Steroid to help put my Crohn's disease into remission. Sadly I will Not be going off the steroid because I am still very sick with the Crohn's and it hasn't gone into remission.

I talked to my Gastro Dr. last Monday and they scheduled more blood work to be done, to check my levels and see how bad the inflammation and infection still is and how high of a dosage of the Steroids I should be on. I went to have the blood work done on Wednesday, then Nov. 23rd the day before Thanksgiving I have to go back up to Columbus for an appointment with my Gastro dr. about the results from the blood work and possibly see what other medications he wants to try to get my Crohn's into remission.

Sadly though if I continue to get infections like the urinery trac infections I've been fighting along with the reoccurring outbreaks of the sores and have to keep being put on antibiotics I will not get my Crohn's into remission. Because every time I have to be on antibiotics it flares up my Crohn's worse.

As soon as we can get some of my current medical bills paid off, I'm going to be referred to a dermatologist about my reoccurring outbreaks with the sores and see if there is a different option out there to treat them other than keep putting me on antibiotics. Like perhaps a topical medication of some kind that would heal them.

Next Saturday Nov. 19th Jeremy and I are participating in the event "One Night Without A Home" that is happening in our town of Chillicothe Ohio to raise awareness about homelessness. Jeremy has been on committee over this event and we are even going to have a table for JMC Ministries! We will be handing out FREE brochures about our ministry, audio cd's of our interviews with 2 homeless shelters one right here in Chillicothe that just opened up a month ago called Daughter's of Ruth, and the other interview is with Jeremy Reynalds the founder of Joy Junction the largest family homeless shelter in all of New Mexico. We will have 15 copies of each interview to give away.

We will also have 20 FREE copies of JMC Ministries (Jeremy Caverley's) essay he wrote for is English Class in College about his experience being homeless for 2 years in Texas due to domestic violence at home and the death of his mother.

Along with all this we will have brochures about JMC Ministries and what we are doing to "fullfill the great commission" And lastly we will be raffling off 18 books written by Jeremy Reynalds of Joy Junction about homelessness. All the proceeds of the raffle will go to the homeless shelters that will be present at the "One Night Without A Home" event.

This event is a great opportunity for Jeremy and I to help raise awareness about homelessness and to not just share JMC Ministries experience with homelessness but others as well and how we all can make a difference even if we have a debilitating, incurable disease like Crohn's.

Because this week I went to Daughter's of Ruth homeless shelter here in chillicothe and a Women's domestic abuse/homeless shelter in Circleville along with my Friend Dawn and we gave away all together 10 fleece baby blankets Dawn had made, and over 20 sets of hats and scarves that I had made. for our Smitten Mitten Expedition as we call it to help keep homeless warm for the winter. This was the 2nd year Dawn and I had done this and we had twice as many items this year compared to last year.

I am praying desperately that God will grant me a good day next Saturday on the 19th to be able to go to this "One Night Without A Home" event so i can share my story and also try and get more people to get involved with the "Smitten Mitten Expedition" and either help make items or buy items like mittens or gloves. Or to want to donate yarn and fleece so Dawn and I can continue to make more items for the homeless. Because every hat and scarf I have made over 2 years has been made with yarn that was 100% donated! I have not had to buy one roll of yarn thanks to generous donations from people in my community.

So as you can tell it is my greatest desire to be well even if it only for that day so I can go to this event. Even if I have to trade being well for he Holidays to go to this event I pray God grants me this pray and desire because I want the world to see how God can still use a person who is home bound and bed bound most of the time and suffering with an incurable disease, to still make a difference in the world we live.