CHRONIC FATIGUE

Jill was an energetic,  cheerful  divorced woman  mother of three grown children.  At fifty years of age she had  been staff manager for a large pharmaceutical company for ten years. Without warning she developed a severe case of bronchitis from which she still carried a persistent cough. At about the same time she suffered from an abscessed tooth.  As she was struggling to recover from these problems she found herself more and more fatigued from the simplest of tasks.  Over time the fatigue grew to the point of weakness . Just the process of getting out of bed in the morning  seemed as she described it so difficult that she literally had to crawl to the bureau to get out her clothes. Along with the acute weakness Jill became deeply depressed.  As she explained it not only was her physical condition the cause of her depression but the report of her physicians left her feeling totally hopeless.

Her lab reports showed that she suffered from a condition called chronic fatigue,  an illness for which there was no specific cure.  It will never kill you they assured her.  You will just have to adjust your life around it.  The doctors prescribed Elavil for her depression.  At this point Jill recalls that in spite of her tremendous fatigue she had great difficulty sleeping at night .  Sometimes only getting two hours of  sleep a night.  She had dropped her work hours to half days,  However her exhaustion became so great that she could only stand on her feet for five minutes at a time. At this point she was forced to take medical leave from her job.  Her exhaustion was so severe that she described it as feeling the need to have a sling to hold up her arm.

Being single and living alone it wasn’t long before Jill lost all hope of recovering.  However the realization that her savings would in time run out jolted her with the realization that she would lose her home  and be on the  street if  somehow  she didn’t  get well.  Like many of her friends  she had in the past attended a bible believing church.  How many times she had heard the teaching that “by the shed blood we can be healed”.  She dug into an old pile of books and found a small paper back book entitled GOD’s CREATIVE POWER by Charles Capps.  The book began by stating that faith filled words will put you over.  Fear filled words will defeat you.  Jill immediately realized that the doctor’s words had filled her with fear that she would never get well. She began to literally dig into this little book .  Charles Capps said that God’s word was medicine.  The book contained every healing scripture  found in the bible  Jill began to read them on a daily basis . Her favorite was “By his stripes I am healed”

Her determination to get well coupled with her faithful daily reading of the scriptures found her slowly regaining her strength. A physician friend later told her that he found that taking B vitamin supplemnts in the morning and afternoon along with Co Enzyme Q 10 once a day throughout the day had helped many of his patirnts. She took his advice. Within a month she was back at work full time and has been symptom free for five years.