Day 1 recovery done..... please continue to pray everyone

Hello all, first I'd like to say thank you for taking the time to read this and pray for my healing and recovery. My name is Amanda Mewhinney and here is my testimony. I never wanted to share such personal details about my condition, but I am asking for your prayers mostly! That my doctors have the endurance during my surgery and that God heals me. In 2019 I was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia after what felt like the left side of my face was being electrocuted. I was SO scared I had no idea what was going on. I learned as much about this condition as I could and what I had been reading seemed SCARY and not to promising. BUT I held onto faith that the Dr's could find a medicine combination that worked for me. April 2020 I had my first "MVD" surgery because in a short 11months my medicine combination wasn't working anymore. So I bravely had surgery thinking this would be it and it would all be in the rear view. 9 months after surgery I was "electrocuted" again on the left side of my face. Of course it brought me to tears....the surgery failed. I was that small % of people that this surgery just wouldnt work for, and that took a lot of accepting. Found more doctors, more meds & more scans and of course nothing they could see from the scans could determine if something was touching or on my Trigeminal nerve...fast forward to December 2023. My pain was now daily, everyday, when I ate, when I talked, when I brushed my teeth, or washed my face. It was horrible. This condition doesn't give a warning it just happens. They have no cure for this condition other than medication management and when that fails they have surgery options they hope work just as much as they hope the medications work. When all surgeries fail, your sent to pain mgt drs just to be a zombie on meds. I am literally tired all the time and I'm starting to get confused more easily, all side effects on medications.

Trigeminal neuralgia is so hard to explain to people as we appear fine until WE ARE NOT! This disease is different for each individual, no two treatment plans are alike.

My surgery is scheduled for 1/29. I am not prepared. I could go on to explain how I'm a single mom and so forth but we all know and feel the inflation that is happening around the world. So at the end of this I ask mostly that you lift me up in prayer for healing, lift my children up in strength to endure seeing their mother recover for a 2nd time and the patience for recovery. This is a difficult time for everyone and if you find it in your hearts to donate I personally want to say THANK YOU right now, if you can't I know you will be praying for me and my family. I do ask if you can please share this with all of your families, church families, social media families and then some! The more prayers the better!

Thank you & AMEN

Amanda M

Romans 8:24