Little Boy Blue

I wanted to update everyone on what has been going on with my sweet boy.  It has been awhile since I have posted on Parker, and I am thankful for that because things have been pretty calm up until recently.  We have been so careful not to expose him to germs and keeping him home as much as possible.  We met with the Gastrointestinal specialist on March 19th.  It was not a good visit, and I was treated as if Parker was my first born and that I was just being a "nervous" mom.  I was told that Parker's constant diarrhea was nothing more than "Toddler Diarrhea."  The look on the Doctors face when I told her that Parker was my fourth child was priceless.  Things seemed to change somewhat after that, but then we were sent over to Children's Hospital for more repeat testing and new testing.  Parker had 7 viles of blood drawn and we were asked to take stool samples over the next 48 hours.  (Oh the things we do for our children!).  A week later I was told that everything came back normal.  I questioned this information and was told again that all of his levels were normal including his IGa which had been extremely low (0.8 out of 60 just at the end of January.)  I was in shock, but knew that God could work miracles and had to trust that the Doctors were being careful with double checking his immune system levels. So we had been keeping Parker away from childcare situations, including church, and decided that we would all go to church as a family on Easter Sunday.  Jonathan and I prayed over this decision and prayed that God would put a hedge of protection around him.  Well, by Monday evening Parker started coming down with what I was hoping was just a simple cold, even though in my heart I knew even a cold could turn bad for Parker. He progressively got worse and I finally took him to the Doctor and he was diagnosed with strep throat.  This broke my heart!  I felt as if I had failed him as a Mommy because I was the one who had exposed his body to germs.  Then on April 6th, I got a call from the GI specialist and they said that they had overlooked some test results and that his stool samples were abnormal.  They showed that one of his intestines was extremely enlarged but they couldn't tell me which one (large or small) and what the cause was.  They are wanting a repeat sample done a month out from the last one which would be anytime after today (April 20).  They will hopefully be able to determine the cause and if it is viral, bacterial, or something more serious.  After receiving this information I decided to take matters into my own hands and have the hospital print out all of his test results for me.  If they had overlooked this, then they could have overlooked the other ones too.  I broke down in tears when I saw that all of Parker's levels were still so low.  Not because they were low, but because we had not been told the truth.  We forget that Doctors are just human and that God is the ultimate Physician and that our faith should be in Him alone.  So, we are again keeping Parker home until at least the summertime.  On Feb. 1st the ENT said that Parker would need his tonsils out if he had any more cases of strep.  So since he has had it again, Parker is possibly facing a tonsillectomy.  Please continue to pray for Parker and that he will stay well and that his immune system will get stronger.  Only God can heal his body and I know that He will do it in His own time.  We are praying for patience as we wait on God's perfect plan for our precious boy.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.  Romans 12:12