I’ve known for a long time that doctors often struggle making a diagnosis. It isn’t easy when symptoms can be the same for many different ailments. We think, “well, just run a test.” I’ve also learned that medicine is a bit like philosophy, which says, you must ask a correct question to get a correct response. In medicine, you must run the “right” test to get the “right” diagnosis. There is no one test for all ailments. Sometimes you can even run the “right” test and still not have a definitive diagnosis.
I came out of the doctor’s office with a tentative diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). A “sed rate” test was being run and the results should show that’s what I have. The results are supposed to come back higher than normal, which if I read the report correctly, normal is from 1-40. Mine came back 4. Yep, low. My doctor’s response was “I’m really shocked.” Ah, not sure it’s good to shock a doctor.
Turns out a very low percentage of people don’t have a high “sed rate” but still have PMR. I may be one of the few out of the many. So, we are going to “treat” it and if it “responds,” then I’ve “got” it.
I trust my doctor, as I was leaving her office, her last words to me were, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you,” and she will. She’s proven that over and over. But even more importantly, my trust is in my LORD, and I know He will take care of me. He’s proven that over and over.
“The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.” [Nahum 1:7]
The LORD is good … He cares for us. God, who sustains all of creation, the Almighty One who is high and lifted up, our Rock cares for us out of His goodness. I can’t wait to go for my worship walk today, I have much for which to praise Him, beginning with the fact that I am cared for by the Great I Am.
