My mom -- prayers of thanksgiving
Posted: February 20th, 2010, 1:50 am
I just wrote this in another spot. (The prayer request for my nephew) But I realize I need to post it in its own spot. Many of you know that I care for my elderly mother. I have got to express my feelings of thanksgiving. God is so very good! Maybe this will help someone else too.
Well, I am just so excited with the breakthrough we have experienced this week. It is as though my mom has come out of a deep fog. I started giving her CoQH (ubiquinol) -- which is the reduced form of CoQ10 that I first read about on Dr. Mercola's website. I guess she's been taking it for 2 or 3 weeks. Well, I noticed on Monday that she was laughing like she used to. I hadn't heard her laugh like that in so long. Then I remembered on Sunday seeing her in her room kind of sad and I asked her if she was ok, and she said, "I'm a little melancholy thinking about your dad." It was Valentine's Day. Even though she was sad, I realized she was starting to feel things again and that is a good thing. She has gotten her personality back. It is as though this other lady has been living with us for over a year -- she took Mom's place -- and Mom has returned home to us.
Oh, I am so thankful to Jesus. I asked Him to guide me in finding something to help her. Just like He guided me to LDL to lose my excess weight, He guided me to that Dr. Mercola article that made me decide to try the CoQH and now my mom is back. I just can't quite express how awesome this is, but you can probably imagine how I feel. We went out to eat tonight with my husband's kids in BR to celebrate his birthday which was yesterday. We got the sitter we normally get and she said that she is most definitely different -- her old self. It was good to know someone else could see it too and it isn't just my wishful thinking. This makes me more happy than you can imagine.
My husband and I have started taking the CoQH ourselves after seeing how great of an effect it had on Mom. It seems like a very important supplement. If you are over 25 years old your body needs the CoQH rather than the CoQ10, because your can't convert the CoQ10 into the CoQH as easily as someone under 25, according to what I read. The more I read on it the more I want to take it. We are going to try it and see if we notice a difference in us too.
Well, I am just so excited with the breakthrough we have experienced this week. It is as though my mom has come out of a deep fog. I started giving her CoQH (ubiquinol) -- which is the reduced form of CoQ10 that I first read about on Dr. Mercola's website. I guess she's been taking it for 2 or 3 weeks. Well, I noticed on Monday that she was laughing like she used to. I hadn't heard her laugh like that in so long. Then I remembered on Sunday seeing her in her room kind of sad and I asked her if she was ok, and she said, "I'm a little melancholy thinking about your dad." It was Valentine's Day. Even though she was sad, I realized she was starting to feel things again and that is a good thing. She has gotten her personality back. It is as though this other lady has been living with us for over a year -- she took Mom's place -- and Mom has returned home to us.
Oh, I am so thankful to Jesus. I asked Him to guide me in finding something to help her. Just like He guided me to LDL to lose my excess weight, He guided me to that Dr. Mercola article that made me decide to try the CoQH and now my mom is back. I just can't quite express how awesome this is, but you can probably imagine how I feel. We went out to eat tonight with my husband's kids in BR to celebrate his birthday which was yesterday. We got the sitter we normally get and she said that she is most definitely different -- her old self. It was good to know someone else could see it too and it isn't just my wishful thinking. This makes me more happy than you can imagine.
My husband and I have started taking the CoQH ourselves after seeing how great of an effect it had on Mom. It seems like a very important supplement. If you are over 25 years old your body needs the CoQH rather than the CoQ10, because your can't convert the CoQ10 into the CoQH as easily as someone under 25, according to what I read. The more I read on it the more I want to take it. We are going to try it and see if we notice a difference in us too.