Avery Update

First off I just want to thank everyone for their prayer and support.  I have felt so much love around us.  I also wanted to update you on our appointment today.

We don’t have a ton of answers yet as we are still waiting on results from the blood test.  We do have a major praise though.  In this last week Avery gained 2 lbs…. that after  months of only losing weight!  The Hemotologist was very encouraged by this.  He was a great doctor and explained to us what his concerns were and how high her levels were etc.  But the more he watched her and interacted with her the more encouraged he was about her.  He said that she looks like nothing but a super healthy baby.  He told us that tells him a lot and that he wouldn’t be surprised at all if she had been fighting something so strongly in her immune system that wasn’t being exhibited by her outward symptoms.  He said we still needed to look at all her levels to be sure.  So what we are waiting on are 2 things:

1. her monocyte count.  This should be around 1000 and was 1764… we want to see that go down not up.
2. this thing called hemoglobin F.  You have when you are in the womb and after you are born it gradually changes to hemoglobin A in the first year.  The only reason it wouldn’t do this would indicate that there are stressors in her bone marrow.  We want to see this number virtually non-existant.

I’m really encouraged though because She has had so much prayer from all of you, so many others, and we when we went forward for prayer at church yesterday morning.  I really think it is possible she has been healed from whatever it was that was battling with her body.  I’m going to choose to believe that at least until I’m told otherwise.

On another note, my grandpa went into the hospital yesterday with shortness of breath and ashen color.  He is feeling somewhat better now but will be undergoing heart catheter wednesday so please lift him up in your prayers.

Thanks again so much.

PS- IT’s OWEN’s 5th BIRTHDAY!!!!  But festivities are a little behind