MY PRAYER REQUEST

Do you get overwhelmed?  I do.  A few years ago, my health was so out of control that I didn’t know what to do to get it under control… I felt as though I was juggling my diabetes, my psoriasis, and my psoriatic arthritis.  If I was doing good and getting my diabetes where it needed to be, then my psoriasis and my psoriatic arthritis would fall to the wayside, and vice versa.  I kept getting into trouble with my doctors but I just didn’t know anything else to do.  Finally, I just fell off the sugar wagon… I stopped worrying about my diabetes and focused on my other ailments.  This was not a good idea.

One day I had gone to the doctor for a UTI and that night about 10:30 pm, the doctor on call called me.  He said that the lab called him and told him that the amount of sugar in my urine was off the charts.  He wanted me to check my sugar while he was on the phone with me.  For me, a normal sugar reading at night, after meals, should be around 150, mine was 514!  He sent me to the ER to get insulin by IV.  I knew that Hershel was working the next day and didn’t want to bother Megan, so I told them that I would go by myself.  I assumed that they would give me insulin and bring my sugar down and then let me go home.  That is not what happened.  They decided to keep me in the hospital.  Not good!  That was my low point.  That was the point I decided something had to give.  I cried to my doctors telling them that I was overwhelmed and I couldn’t do it all.

I started looking for an app that helped keep up with the whole body, but couldn’t find one.  There are apps for diabetes, apps for cardiac care, apps for nutrition, apps for working out, apps for almost everything, but no app for whole body wellness.  I decided that I wanted to create an app where all of my doctors, me the patient, my pharmacist, and anyone else that was necessary could go and see what my labs were, what the other doctors were doing, any new allergies, any test results, etc.  I am not technologically inclined enough to create such an app, so I put my idea on a shelf…

I did, however, get an insulin pump that takes care of my diabetes, and I got on a correct combination of meds that help my psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.  I feel like my juggling days are over… hopefully.

I have a new mission though… I realized recently that most doctors have patient portals, in these patient portals, are all of the tests, doctor notes, and medications that they have prescribed to me, the patient.  Why can’t we take these patient portals and connect them, so that each of my doctors can see everything in one location.  So I asked one of my doctors, and he said, “that would be ideal, but it will never happen.”  When I hear “never happen” something inside me says, “watch me make it happen.”

To do this I have to talk to convince the government that this is a great idea, and they have to agree, and make a mandate that all doctors’ offices use the same portal system and then we can connect them.  So, it may take me years, but I am willing to start the process.

Please be in prayer with me as I start the process.  Thank you!