Thursday, June 21, 2007

New challenges


On June 14 Elijah had his largest medical day since he was a newborn. We started at 9 a.m. and ended at 4 p.m. his leg is healing well and he no longer has a cast. The more serious tests were in the urology department. We were glad to hear that Elijah's kidneys look great, but learned at the same time that his bladder looks terrible. Practically, what this means is that he is incapable of holding urine at low pressure like most of us do. This puts him in danger of reflux into his kidneys, which is never good. We will be putting Elijah on an intermittent catheterization program as well as tripling his dosage of the bladder relaxing medicine. Now we can start potty training, but in a very different way. As usual, we are satisfied that this is for God's glory and, hence, for our good. Still no shortage of joy here. This is Elijah's new "normal."

Yesterday was Elijah's third birthday. Boy, was he excited, as you can see.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Big day Thursday (6-14-2007)

Elijah will have a big day of appointments this Thursday. He will finally get his cast removed and get an X-ray to make sure things are growing as they should. The bigger tests are urological and involve catheterization and having to lie still during poking and prodding. You might pray that Elijah will be able to handle these treatments with joy and remain patient with the technicians and docs even when it is nap time.