2009

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!!!

Good News!

Eden's report came back today from her MRA.....She doesn't have an aneurysm !!!! Wow what a relief! Thank God for that!!!

Next step will be to get an appointment at Nemours Children's Clinic in Orlando (as requested by the Neurologist) with the Genetic doctor to further explore the spots on her brain and her other conditions with her eyes and muscle issues. I'm sure that God will reveal things to us in His perfect time.

Thanks for all your prayers...love you all!

I Got A Blog Award!

How very sweet of you, Heidi!Thank you for the blog award.
I have really been blessed by our conversations and seeing you and your family live your life before the Lord in such a way that glorifies Him! Cool blog BTW.

So I've never gotten a blog award but I think it's real sweet and I am gonna follow the rules and pass on the joy. So if you've been awarded by me (see below)please do the same whenever you can. Even if it's after the Holidays. That's okay. No rush. If I awarded you then save the award logo above and upload it to your site

The rules are as follows:

• Confess 5 things I'm addicted to. And...
• Pass this award onto 5 other sisters.

5 Things I'm addicted to:

1) I am addicted to God. I love every aspect of worship.... prayer, music praise and worship, studying His word. I love hearing other people's insight to Him. My favorite author would have to be John Piper. He has a total fanatic passion for Christ that I've learned so much about God, my Saviour, from. I love God<3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Facebook. I guess it has something to do with my addiction of God's people. I love to know "whats up" with their lives.

So now I will pass on the award *drum roll*

1) My beautiful daughter Katelyn. She has been an awesome inspiration to me. To watch her grow in the Lord and be honest about her struggles has blessed me. To see her strong convictions lived out and her love for God and His people is amazing.

2)My sister Kim. She is an amazing woman. Kim has a very full life and still reaches out to so many people. I have watched her grow in grace so much this year. She is awesome at keeping up her blog too! She is always there for me, I love her so much!

3)Trish is an awesome blessing to me. She is my sister. I loved keeping up with her blog from her trip to Africa. I was amazed at how she found the time to give us so much detail while she was in Africa. Trish is a very talented writer. You should read her blog.

4)My beautiful daughter Mikayla. This girl puts the F in fun! She is a blast! She has a great sense of humor and craftiness, you can see this displayed on her blog .

5) Heidi. I know she sent me the award but I have to give one right back to her cuz her blog is beautiful! And she is an amazing woman of God with so much insight and wisdom from God.


This was fun. I hope you awardees will keep it going.........love you all<3

Waiting...

Today was such a blessing. I could sense the prayers of the Saints. Thank you so much, Church! I love you!

Eden did very well. It only took two times and we were there under 2 hours! She was awake during it and truly submitted her will and was still!!!!!! The valium they gave her was much better than the medicine last time. There was no thrashing!!!

I got the films but it just looks like a bunch of veins to me?! I am so glad God has given people to be mindful of this aspect of His creation!

We will receive the Doctors findings tomorrow. It will be in a report.

So I wait.
Lord turn that into...
"So I wait for You...I'm falling on my knees....offering all of me....Jesus you're all this heart is living for"
That's truly how I want to feel. Thank you for your prayers:)

Lord willing, I will post tomorrow and let you all know the findings.

Advent Conspiracy, Spend Less Worship More

Brothers......Twins?

Last night was a wonderful time at the Christmas party. There were so many people there. We even had the honor of having Michael's twin brother Mitchell and his so Chase with us.

This morning I was convicted by the Holy Spirit for something I didn't even realize, but now do, as sinful pride and haughtiness. After hearing so many people ask "Is that your brother?" I started to get this haughty attitude like "Duh! It's his twin".

So if I did that to you....I apologize. Please forgive me. Here is a picture of the twins with their mom Judy aka Nana.

Magnetic Resonance Angiography/ MRA Test

Eden is going in for her MRA on Monday the 15th of December. They called us this morning and got her scheduled quickly for this test.

We are very grateful for the Lord's Sovereignty. We can truly rest and trust Him in everything! In the little things and in the hard things <3

Thank you for your prayers!

Neurology Appointment

Well we went to the doc today.Dr. Cimino looked at the MRI slides and determined that they were not enough. So we will be doing an M.R.A. next. Magnetic Resonance Angiography is used to generate images of the arteries in order to evaluate them for stenosis (abnormal narrowing), occlusion or aneurysms (vessel wall dilatations, at risk of rupture). We will be having this at a Hospital, probably in Melbourne. I'm not sure if they will be using an injected dye, to see the arteries, yet. More on MRA- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_angiography

Eden will also be going to a Genetic doctor too. I don't really know what that looks like yet but we will see.

After all of this we will then return to the Neurologist to see what this is and where to go with it.

Thanks for your prayers....Love ya!


Above pictures are Eden's brain. The white spots I guess are the concern. The Neurologist said there are several on both sides.I looked at normal brain MRI's to try to figure out what I'm looking at and on the normal ones I dont see any white spots and lines? The CD I got of her brain is very interesting cuz it has the ability to manipulate the pictures/video to move around on the head. I wish I could share it...its awesome!

God continues to be amazing in all of this and in everything we encounter! I pray He is glorified!

Appointment

Just a quick update......

Eden has a Neurology appointment on December 10th at 1pm with Dr Cimino. Thank you for your prayers! We love you!