GOOD NEWS!

While I was over at the learning center this afternoon, Kim called me with the news of Ethan's latest lab test: the white and red blood cell count went down to almost ZERO! This is amazing news. After two weeks of it going up and then to have it all of a sudden go down! - Just as we were teetering on whether or not to send Kim and Ethan to Singapore. Wow! Praise the Lord!

So the next steps right now are to keep observing Ethan, both fussiness and blood loss, weigh him at the end of the week, and re-do the lab test next week. Hopefully, this means that the bacteria or bug or whatever it was - we've never been able to completely identify what he has over the past month - has been killed off by the meds and it's finally getting out of his system.

We wait. We hope. We pray!

This morning before we got the news, I happened to be reading Psalm 46 for my devotions. So I took it to breakfast and we claimed this as a family:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore, we will not fear;

though white blood cells increase,

though he's sometimes fussy and we don't know why,

though blood in the stool is still there,

though a trip to Singapore will disrupt our lives,

though we don't know what will happen tomorrow,

Be still and know that He is God;

He will be exalted among the nations,

He will be exalted in the earth!"

Thanks for praying so that we can remain here exalting God.