Category: My Healing Journey

A peek in the window of a lightning survivor….

I have memory loss and have forgotten how to do many things. Knowing that I should know how and forgot is frustrating at times. And there’s no rhyme or reason as to things I can and cannot remember.

For example… I planned a simple dinner meal for tonight – Chicken Veggie Stir Fried Rice. I’ve made it more than a dozen times, yet I simply have forgotten how to do it. Thankfully, there’s the internet & Pintrest that I can quickly look it up.

Then there’s the issue that my upper body strength and stamina have dimishished so much that I have to ask for help stirring after a while because my arms wear out and I start hurting more than I can bear. Or I get side tracked easily and end of forgetting to add certain ingredients or mixing up the directions.

I’m not complaining in the least. Life has been much harder since the anomoly.  I am thankful for God’s faithfulness and that His mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23).

I just figure since my type of injury isn’t studied enough because doctors don’t think it happens enough that maybe allowing others to take a peek at some of my struggles may help others know how to be more supportive with those who struggle with the same type of injuries as I do.

…now if I could only figure out how to publish this to share…

Today I was feeling halfway decent so I decided to try doing some chores around the house.  This house needs to be clean and there’s chores that need to be done.  I’m getting impatient not being able to do much without it either causing me pain or wearing me out.  Anyways…

I decided while my son and husband were away to burn the papers, make a cake for Sunday dinner, fold two loads of laundry, and sprinkle D.E. on the ant piles I keep seeming to step in and get myself bit up.  Well, I managed to do them but I ended up hurting myself in the process and wearing myself out. Ugh!  The clothes still need to be put away.  I’ll eventually get to them.  At least I got something done.

I’m looking forward to eating that cake.  Still have to make the frosting though.  It’s a Depression Era Chocolate Cake.  The weird thing is I don’t normally like chocolate cake, but I’m looking forward to this one.  It’s for Sunday lunch.  We have cake, but I have no clue what the main course will be.

Oh, I almost forgot.  While baking the cake, I decided to brew some tea for dinner (chili’s in the crockpot heating up). My husband kindly pointed out that I forgot to add the tea bags. Ugh!   Frustrating!  Oh, well If at first, you don’t succeed.

The homemade icing didn’t turn out too well. I added too much milk and don’t have enough powdered sugar. At least we’ll have cake…

Time for a break.  My head hurts and my brain is getting foggy with vision blurry.  Until next time….

So…I’ve been trying to work on setting up this website/blog since April to document my recovery in an effort to help others as well.  I have purchased a book, tried to read the book, watched youtube videos, etc. and it still seems like Greek to me.

I thought I was making a little progress today until I hit the wrong button and messed it all up. Now I’m trying to fix it, but I can’t remember how I did it in the first place even with the notes I’ve been taking. Ugh!

Right now I am just so frustrated and feel like crying because no matter how hard I try I just am not comprehending what to do to get what I want to be done.   In the sense of being honest (I forgot how the saying goes),  my mind is telling me that I should know how to do this, but my brain isn’t getting it!!!!

As I began trying to search for ways to help heal from being struck by lightning injuries, I struggled to find anything definitive on the internet to help.  Sadly, most doctors don’t think that this phenomenon happens enough to warrant studying this out to any extent.

In the months following, I have been able to learn that one in one million people get struck by lightning per year!   In our finite minds, we generally think that is great odds.  But if you sit and ponder it a little more…

There are over 7 billion people in the world.  With that in mind, an average of 7,000 people gets struck a year.  Of those that do get struck, 90% survive; and 80% of those survivors have lasting effects from their encounter.  I’m thinking that should be enough for some doctors and/or nurses to study this out to help the survivors that have long-lasting effects from their lightning strike encounters.

C. S.  Lewis wrote, ” We can ignore even pleasure.  But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.  It is for this reason that I have decided to try to document my journey to recovery hoping that maybe my findings can help someone else who may need help finding the light in a dark world.

“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” Psalm 34:18

July 18, 2018

Today marks my one year anniversary of my life-changing event of being struck by lightning!!! I am thankful to be alive!  I continue to thank God for His faithfulness and that His mercies are new every morning. Lamentations 3:22-23

It has been a year of ups and downs that come with the after-effects of the damage the lightning left behind – nerve damage, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and migraines are among a few of the daily battles. This is something that you won’t hear on the nightly news media. Until recently, the only time you heard of someone being struck by lightning on the news was when a person was killed by the lightning strike. I have yet to see them cover how a lightning survivor copes with the injuries or struggles to find doctors that have dealt with this type of injury in order to get the help they desperately need. Sadly, most survivors struggle with depression after struggling to find either a doctor that is willing to help or even keep a friend that understands the plethora of symptoms that they struggle with on a daily/weekly basis.

We continue to pray that God will heal me completely. While waiting for God to answer that prayer, I am doing my best to learn how to use natural remedies as much as possible to aid in the healing process.

I thank God for the loving support of my family and close friends. I also thank God for the new friends I have made through my Lightning Strike support group. God has already opened doors for new friendships and has enlarged my coast (1 Chronicles 4:10) beyond what I could imagine allowing me to be able to help others. I look forward to how much God will extend that coast in the near future.

Hello! I’m glad you are here.  Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to drop by for a while.  I pray that you will find this site both informative and encouraging.

Last year my world was drastically changed when I was struck by lightning!  Yes, you read right.  I was struck by lightning and survived.

Some of my injuries include nerve damage and a traumatic brain injury.  Since there isn’t much information on the recovery process of being struck by lightning, I decided to document my recovery in order to help others like me.  Please note that I am not a doctor or a scientist.  I’m just doing my best to find natural ways to the path of healing.

This will be a journey of learning and discovery …