Calendar has been marked

What a long weekend. We didn’t see the pediatrician until four o clock on Friday afternoon and I knew no one would call until Monday, so the sound of the phone was wonderful this morning.  September 14^th we will be headed down to Children’s Hospital to begin testing.  That seems so far away when you want answers right now but we needed to sync up different schedules of the radiologist, neurologist and anesthesiologist. 

I was sitting at the kitchen table with my calendar open and pen ready to write down whatever day or time they gave me.  While on hold I read the words under a beautiful picture of sunflowers on my Hope for Each Day wall calendar and I was flooded with emotion.  “Cast all your cares upon Him.  If He loved you enough to take away the burden of your sins, can’t you trust Him to take away every lesser burden as well?”  Whoa!  Suddenly three weeks doesn’t seem that long as I was once again reminded that my God is in control.

So three weeks from now we will be seeing a neurologist to perform an electroencephalogram (EEG) to evaluate electrical activity produced by brain. The EEG takes about an hour to complete, and the results are automatically sketched on paper, while a video monitor records his movements. Part of the test is used to examine seizure disorders, and he may be directed to look at flashing lights, which might trigger a seizure. The lights are stopped if evidence from the EEG shows that he is in pre-seizure mode. Not sure how well this will work with our rambunctious two year old that sits still for nothing.

Immediately following the EEG Owen will undergo an MRI.  He will be under general anesthesia for this procedure.  This will not be his first MRI so I feel more confident that I will be able to hold it to together this time around.  Owen was four weeks old for his first and I cried the entire time.  We should have all the results back within 24 hours and we will meet with the doctor to see what the next step is.

Please continue to pray for Owen’s health in these next few weeks.  We do appreciate the outpouring of prayers and well wishes for our sweet boy.  We do consider ourselves very blessed to live where we can meet with specialists in a relatively short time.  It is also a huge “God timing” that I started a new at home business this week and we will have some extra income coming in to help pay for the blessing of specialists and tests.