MIRACLES DO HAPPEN

LIFE OUTSIDE of SCRAPBOOKING

I recently had someone point out to me

that most of my posts were just a lot

of Tim Holtz's Tags.

AND....you know what they were right.

I try mainly to keep my blog 

ALL ABOUT SCRAPBOOKING!

EXCEPT...It has been a lot of simple projects.

When I first started my blog, I did put my

projects on here....but life happens...

and I am not getting younger...and when you realize

that you can't correct things that need to change...

it wears on you!!!!

Scrapbooking is MY OUTLET....I can go 

in my scraproom and forget about everything

that bothers me and have FUN!!!!!

SPECIAL STORY INSERTION 

 

We recently had a MIRACLE that was 

granted to our oldest son!

YES...A TRUE MIRACLE...they really do occur!

 

Our oldest son was very sick at 7 months.

I won't go into all the details, but he almost died!

We are very blessed that he is still with us,

but that illness left him with some major 

health issues.  One of them is that he was

left with acquired hydrocephalus. He had to have

a shunt inserted to survive.  All throughout

his life (He is now 28), he has had surgery after

surgery on his shunt. 

(He has had so many surgeries that I have lost count).

  In February of this year, we 

entered the hospital on a Saturday... and then we

were told that his drain would need to be inserted into

his heart because it wasn't going to be able to work any 

more in the abdominal area due to all the scar tissue.

His neurosurgeon then referred us to another neurosurgeon

for this surgery.  This all happened rather quickly and this new

doctor presented us with another option.  We were going to run

some tests and if our son had this specific characteristic

within his brain, then he might be able to have another type 

of surgery and be SHUNT FREE!

All these years whenever our son has had surgery...

I have just prayed for God to watch over him and that 

he makes it through without any other complication.

For the longest time we have just been living day to day

waiting for the NEXT surgery or problem to arise.  

I will tell you that when his neurosurgeon told us in the 

beginning that we were going to have to make a 

change, I literally broke down and said to my GOD....

 I am done!   This is out of my mommy realm,

I can't handle this ANYMORE...I am handing the 

care of my son over to YOU....YOU DEAL WITH IT!

I was just angry and devastated... and then I realized 

that I was trying to shoulder all this....ALL BY MYSELF!!!!

I imagined all the things that were going to go wrong with

the new placement of his shunt (none of the options were good in

my opinion) and I had had ENOUGH! 

His doctor  said she would NOT be doing the surgery...

she was going to refer us to a colleague. My son just looked

at his doctor and put all his faith in what she said!  He trusted her.

So in the middle of the night we were taken by ambulance to  

the next hospital...met with the new neursurgeon .....had tests

after tests....thanked God for providing us with another option....

and that our son fit the requirements for this other surgery....

and he made the decision to try it...(This was a very scary 

thing for all of us...because the surgery itself was scary and 

there was one factor that if it didn't work...

 ....then he would NOT be shunt free!

He had surgery on Wednesday and by Sunday...the

doctor met with us and told us the surgery was 

SUCCESSFUL!

PRAISE GOD....our son got his MIRACLE...

WE ARE BLESSED!

HE IS NOW BEEN SHUNT FREE SINCE FEBURARY!

He has one more doctors appointment before we are

completely let go!

But this is the main reason why I haven't really posted a lot

of other stuff...my life has not really been mine...As my son 

says....he has had a "SHUNT DRIVEN LIFE!"

BUT NO MORE!!!!!

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!!!

THANKFUL EVERY DAY!!!!!