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I'd like to ask the DV prayer warriors for their help again. You might remember my posting about my 20 YO daughter earlier. She has had some serious challenges and has faced them with amazing fortitude and grace. We are facing another challenge. She has been on a G/J tube for nutritional feeding for over a year. We were hoping and praying that by resting her system her stomach would resolve the gastroparesis issue. Her stomach just would not digest food - even though it is producing plenty of acid (too much in fact) and was stable and doing OK. She is going to college and leading as normal a life as possible with having to carry a backpack with a small food pump with her at all times. However, something new has happened in the last week. She started experiencing extreme abdominal pain when feeding, and even when she slowed the rate to 20 ML/hour with just water ( that's about 3/4 of an ounce an hour) she was still experiencing pain. We went to the ER and they gave her an IV to help with the dehydration. We were waiting on a call from her GI doctor to see what we could do. Unfortunately, this weekend her usual GI was not the one on call, and is actually in another town 115 miles from us. we are trying to get her int to see a GI specialist here, but he is scheduled out for almost 2 months - we were able to get an appointment in about a month about a week ago (just before this happened) only because her current GI was able to push the issue a bit. They started her on a course of Augmentin - because that can cause bowel contractions - 72 hours and another IV infusion later - no change - and looks like we are going back to the ER for another infusion for dehydration today. I will admit that as a father I'm frustrated and scared. I'm trying hard to take to heart the words of Saint Padre Pio "Pray, hope and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer." It's tough - and I admit to failing in the "don't worry" department. Prayers for Mandy would be greatly appreciated. Lord, look upon Mandy with eyes of mercy, may your healing hand rest upon her , may your lifegiving powers flow into every cell of her body and into the depths of her soul, cleansing, purifying, restoring her to wholeness and strength for service in your Kingdom. Amen.