dear Jacy,
I am English Rose living in the south of England, and have just read your testimony of Thanksgiving, and how I can relate to some of your blessings. Thank you for including it.

I, too, have that same problem that you have, and many others too, and been very ill indeed, unable to look at light and not be able to raise my head off the pillow, and was confined to bed for three years, and long periods before that and since, with what I now have discovered was polio-induced through a contaminated polio vaccine given when I was a schoolgirl. Though doctors diagnosed Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - through the coxsackie virus, I believe. They really have not had a clue!

Although the last 25 years have been the worst, its been the best in the Lord, as much cutting and purifying has needed to go on, in His wisdom and grace. I thought that He was going to take me Home in 1987, but am still here, and I received powerfully a verse of scripture which has upheld me since then. My worst disablement is voice loss, as I sometimes can get out in my wheelchair, if its warm enough.

I am greatly blessed as I have the use of the computer, in short bursts, with resting much in between, and my husband is my full-time carer, and he has to do everything.

I am not sure when you wrote your testimony but am trusting that you are still much better and being blessed in the Lord.

Love in Christ from English Rose