Harrison's Heart

DeAnne and have spent the better part of the nearly six years that we've been married praying for not only God to bless with a child/children but for various aspects of our children's lives.  One of those aspects is health.  The various health problems that DeAnne and I have faced throughout our lives have been pretty well documented here on this blog.  We've always prayed that our children would be spared those same trials and that they would be healthy.  Yesterday, we got to see the first confirmation that the Lord is answering those prayers.

While we were in Mobile for my annual cardiologist visit in April, we mentioned to my doctor that we were expecting and asked about the potential for Harrison to have some heart defect similar to what I had.  He referred us to another cardiologist in his group that does fetal diagnostics.  So yesterday we shot down to Mobile, got to take a peak at Harrison one more time and found out that for as far as they can tell at this stage, he has a perfectly healthy heart.  On the way home DeAnne and I were talking and we came around to the peace that God has given us about Harrison's health.  Neither of us really feel like he's going to have anything wrong with him and we both agreed that while our faith comforts us and pacifies our fears, it was incredible and uplifting to physically see God working and answering prayers that we've prayed for so long.

So that was just Monday.  We had a good weekend too.  Yesterday was actually the second time we had been to Mobile since the weekend started.  On Saturday, "little" Edwin had his first birthday, so we headed down to celebrate with Courtney and Edwin and a host of other friends and family.  It was a good time and it was good to get to see a lot of people that we haven't been able to see in a while.

Mother's Day was spent in Kinston with DeAnne's family.  We ate ourselves silly and had as good a time as we always do.  DeAnne's grandmother who we've been asking prayers for is home now although she's not able to stand or walk, but she looked really good and it was good to see her feeling so much better and sitting up in a chair and eating.

My grandmother was moved to UAB late last week and they're still working to find out what exactly is going on with her.  Hopefully today they'll be able to do the CT they've been wanting to do for a couple of weeks now and we'll know something more.

See you all on Thursday,

Paul