Kisses of Sunshine

Remember when I mentioned that (among all my woes) my husband was having foot surgery last week?

Well, he had it on Friday, and it was a success. When the doctor came to see him right before his surgery, she asked if he was ready, and I said, "but it's gone." And she looked at me and said, "Gone?" To which I replied, "Gone."

She looked at it, and sure enough, she confirmed it was gone. The sack was empty, but still there. She commented that she didn't understand how it would have disappeared so quickly, and that even the cortisone shot my husband got wouldn't have caused it to disappear! My husband replied to her that we believe in miracles, and we've been praying.

She still went in and removed the sack the cyst was in, and when she did, she found a pea-sized neuroma with nerves that had embedded itself into his muscle, but it's all been removed, and he has had almost no pain! NONE! Praise God for his wondrous works! He is amazing! He is powerful! He is mighty! He performs miracles! He is God, and really -- who can argue with that?

But the enemy wouldn't allow us to celebrate too hard, because Saturday, Hunter came home from his grandparent's home with a fever of 102. I couldn't break with, and by midnight, it was 105.8! We placed him in a tepid bath, called his doctor, medicated him some more, broke it down to 101, and kept fighting the fever through Monday. It ping-ponged back and forth from 100 to 104.

Yesterday, we took him to the doctor and then we took him to get blood work. It took three adults to hold him down, and a fourth to draw blood. It didn't work the first time, and they had to try again in the other arm. They took 3 vials of "straight blood", and a fourth vial that had some black stuff in it so that they could grow a culture, or something like that.

Needless to say, it was very traumatic. Then, today, my husband took him to get a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia again. The x-ray came back clear, but the blood work came back with a low white-blood-cell count... so he has to repeat the blood work on Thursday.

Today is the first day my baby boy didn't have a full-blown fever throughout the night and into the day, but he's still not feeling great, and his temperature is hovering between 99.8 and 100 degrees.

I'll update you on how he's doing when we hear more, but your prayers would be coveted!!!

Finally, my wonderful, amazing, most talented IT lady was able to save many of our pictures, and said she would try to save the rest, along with my book! Woohoo! God continues to be great and merciful! I am so thankful and blessed!

Have a wonderful day ... and hey! Find something to praise God about! Even the little stuff counts!