Full speed ahead...that is our Chase these days! I can barely keep up with him. I honestly rely on help from Aubrianna (my 4 year old) to keep up! She loves helping me be "mommy" and she is in good training to help with our other little blessing due in March 2013.
Chase has been doing amazingly well. He is healthier than he has ever been in his 29 months of life on this earth. He is working hard with his occupational, physical and speech therapists and playing catch up faster than we can keep up with! Aubrianna is also playing a huge role in his development. Now that he feels so good, he is doing everything he can to keep up with her and in doing so is learning more every day.
Our last visit with his GI doctor was to schedule his next colonoscopy. His EC has been in remission since July and we were very hesitant to move forward with another scope since they usually cause him a lot of discomfort and cause more bleeding. Thankfully, she was on track with us and agreed that we would just take the wait and see approach.
The blood pressure problems he was having seem to be better now too. He has in a sense grown into his blood pressure. As a child gets older, the range for their blood pressure goes up. His blood pressure has stayed the same over the last year, but since he has gotten older he has grown into a higher "normal" level. We plan to keep an eye on it, but for now, it is great! He is also doing well with his migraines. After three months of treatment with his medicine, we did have to increase his dose slightly, but he adjusted well to it and is back to having very few of them.
I feel like we are certainly on our way to ending this journey of unknowns and questions and flying full speed ahead, just as Chase is directing us to do. You would never know by looking him that he has endured 9 hospitalizations, over 400 blood draws, almost 200 therapy sessions, EKG's EEG's, MRI's and countless clinic visits, outpatient procedures and tests. You may could tell by looking at his Daddy, who has turned completely gray headed during the last few years though! Just kidding...it has been rough, but we have never been alone. God brought us along this journey to teach us, counsel us and prepare us for things he has in store for our lives. I could write a book on what the sleepless nights have taught me as a Christian. There have been so many lessons in all of this. In time, every little step of this journey has revealed its purpose to us. We have yet to see what it means as a whole, but we know it is all God's will and we are thankful.
