My New Articles on Rest Ministries
I recently wrote a 2-part article for Rest Ministires, a nonprofit organization serving people with chronic illnesses. Rest Ministries has been ministering to my wife since before I met her and I wanted to say thank you in a way that might be helpful to others as well.
So I wrote an article called “Carrying SuperRachel: How I care for my Chronically Ill Wife.”
I hope that it is helpful to some other husbands / caregivers out there. Chronic pain sucks, but there are things you can do to help minimize the emotional pain and alleviate some of the logistic problems.
Click here for Part 1 – Carrying Super Rachel – The Logistics of When Your Wife Is Chronically Ill
Grace & Peace,
-Matt
June 15th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Matt,
Thank you for writing those articles for Rest Ministries. I read them this morning and they encouraged me to renew my passion for my wife, who also struggles with chronic illness. We’ve been married 16+ years and she has had illness for about 13 of those years. It started with acute preeclampsia at the birth of our 2nd child and progressed through stages of CFIDS to what is now fully developed lupus, RA and other conditions, each one making her more disabled and in more pain.
God has blessed us tremendously in the middle of a lot of suffering. My wife, “Super” Angie (I borrowed the “Super” from your Super Rachel), has developed a burning passion to share Christ with people and was led of God to write a book to encourage the chronically ill and to lead them to Christ – she also does online missionary work with Global Media Outreach. GMO allows her to share the gospel from her laptop computer.
We understand and empathize with POTS because she has failed tilt table tests repeatedly and has low blood pressure issues from the beginning.
Thank you again for sharing the story and especially your drive to support her – that comes directly from God. We also have a website to provide encouragement to the ill and their caregivers. It is at http://www.be-encouragedonline.com – I’m developing a replacement at be-encouraged.weebly.com. Oh, by the way, I’m a “mad scientist” too. I’ve been in the software field since my sophomore year of college and have worked for a major software company for 21 years.