Dear John and Praying Doves,

God is good!  Thank you so much for praying for little Gabe!  This is the best news!

 

Judy

Here is an update from Lisa.

 

Wow - sorry it's been so long since we updated! It has actually been an uneventful week - praise God! Today we have been home for a whole week and it feels like so much longer! We've been to our regular Thursday and Monday clinic appointments, but nothing extra.

Gabriel is doing really well. We are SO happy and thankful! His diarreha due to the GVHD is gone! He's eating really well, and has been slowly adding new foods to his diet sucessfully over the last week!

Tonight is his last night to be on the 24 hour IV pump he's been carrying around for the last week. (It has the IV antibiotic he's been getting because of the fever and possible infection from 9 days ago.) We also officially stopped his IV nutrition today! He's been eating so well, and his tummy doing well, so I asked the dr. for permission to stop it this morning.

What a HUGE relief for him (and me!) to have no IV infusions at home! It's been weeks and weeks since that's happened. I called the home nursing care today and asked them to please pick up the pumps and equipment tomorrow. I want them out of my house! Hopefully we are done with them.

Thank you, Jesus. The beautiful sunshine echoed the feelings we have today. I pray that healing and recovery continue in Gabriel's body. We are so grateful for these things today. We place our precious ones in your good, perfect and capable hands today and in the future.

We know that this may not be the end of this roller coaster ride with Gabriel, but for today, we are thankful for all these "little" steps forward.

Every few weeks that I make it to church I sit there thinking of the families and children on 10N at Dorenbecher that we've met. I weep with those who weep, and I hurt and cry out to God for His healing hands on those precious children. I want to sit and listen and pray with them. I want to be Jesus to those whose wounds I know myself. I will never understand the why's of it all, but I do know that I will never be the same.

Lisa