Today was just a huge day. For the most part it was great: Kayden was alert, smiling and having fun. He slept for 4 hours in his wagon, went for a walk outside in the wagon, and had lots of fun visitors. We also got the pathology back (we did not expect it back on the weekend), and it is what we could have hoped for. We will wait a couple of weeks to start chemo just waiting for a genetic testing result to determine our full course of therapy. Kayden now only has one tube attached to him, and it is a possibility that we could go home Monday, depending on how Kayden does and what the surgeons say.
It was a hard day because the epidural was taken out (which in the long run is a good thing, but adjusting to the pain is not so much fun), the catheter was taken out (also a good thing, just hurts to pee at first. Kayden fought peeing for about an hour despite friends and family efforts to help him relax (oh yeah, we put his feet in warm water), so I finally tried the cold air technique and changed his diaper. He peed all over me! :) ), and Kayden threw up about 3 times last night and this morning. Been a rough day for the little man, but he is morphined up right now and sleeping.
Specific prayer requests are that bowel movements would start so he can begin eating, that he would not throw up any more (the tube in his nose would be put back if he does), that his pain would decrease, and that he would be more than ready Monday to head home. I don't want to push it, but I also think our family is more than ready to start our "normal" life again (not sure how that will look in a new home with so much change, but we're ready to try!). Please just pray too for peace and strength in the transition, and for us to not lose our sight of Christ.
Last night was pretty hard for me, just remembering that ALL the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful and wondering how that fits in here, but trusting that it does. I have seen the Lord moving through all of you, and in so many ways, but really had a hard time seeing Kayd suffer. Praying tonight will go better and trusting and knowing that God is in fact moving and working in ALL of this! "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be GLAD IN IT!" This is a verse I am clinging to. No matter how hard it is, God made this day and so I will rejoice and be glad in it! Hoping and praying that as you go about your day to day life, you to can claim this promise! (this verse is in Psalm 118 somewhere, sorry, the verse number is not coming to mind right now!)
Thank you again for your prayers and support. We love you all so very much!
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Korene,
ReplyDeleteYour trust in the Lord is encouraging and amazing. Thank you so much for sharing how the Lord is sustaining you. THanks be to God that we can rejoice in Him even in the darkest of times. I am praying constantly for little Kayden. I was listening to a sermon this afternoon by John Piper and it made me think of you. He was talking about how in times of trials we can either let Satan win or let God be glorified. He even used the example of Cancer, and said even in cancer we can still choose to bring glory to God. Your life right now is bringing glory to God in the way you are praising Him. Thank you so much for your testimony.
1 John 5:4-5
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Praise the Lord that because of Jesus we have the power to overcome all things.
Love you,
Emmers
i'm glad you go pee'd on! ;) love you all!!!
ReplyDeleteLOL about Kayden peeing all over you. Great idea with the cold air though, I get pee'd on at work all the time using that technique!
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