Pretty Good News All Around

Thanks friends and family who have been praying for my husband's health.  Today he got his ultrasound results and they are good.

The short version is that it seems most of the issues are directly stress related.  The body certainly has its ways of letting a person know it isn't happy with the amount of stress it is trying to absorb.

Now that we know the problem it is not that difficult to return to dietary, exercise, antacid, counselling and regular physician checkup protocols to restore the coping mechanisms.  We have been down this road twice before and certainly know where to start to regain control of this.

My husband's new doctor is great.  Using antidepressants will be the last line of treatment rather than taking the easy way out and starting there.  We are both delighted by that.

We are quite relieved to find out what is going on...we certainly knew that stress was part of the issue, but to find out what fantastically good health my husband is actually in, apart from needing to lower his triglycerides, (and he knows exactly how to do that, just hasn't bothered until confronted with the recent lab results).  

What a joy to have such a thorough round of testing and to have results that give strong evidence of the actual problem.  We have both relaxed since getting the news.  We went out for lunch after the appointment and running some errands, we relaxed, we chatted and my husband has realized in trying to protect me from his stresses...which, news flash, I all ready was aware of....he has bottled up too much inside himself. He knows he is his own worst enemy for worrying about work and now he has to face it that he has done it to himself again.  He will accept help from me, the doctor and counsellor, now that he knows he needs it.  

Whew!!  We are both relieved to find out the problem because we know what to do to change things and see improvement over the next few months.  Thank you Lord!! Thank you praying folk!!  Thank you concerned friends. Thank you amazing doctor who is so on top of this situation and is so caring.