Ryan's June BD

Our "Little King" turned 8 April 29th, but for some reason the celebration continued in to June lol!  We surprised him and took him to Chuck E Cheese and his BFF was there, as well.  Then off to Toys R Us and a Starbux for finishing swim.  Good day for him.  Birthday is officially over.  ha ha.  :)

Pray for andrew.  He had his ENT f/u app.  He has fluid in the right ear, which he is now on Zyrtec for to hopefully dry it up, and he has a perforated eardrum on the left, which happened because of ear tubes.  Grrr.  Good thing is, is it is acting as a natural tube and draining fluid.  The perforation may heal on its own, but if not he would have to have surgery where they take a piece of skin from his neck to patch up the hole.  If there is still fluid, still talking about tubes.  Great news is he passed his hearing test!  Next app is Aug 22nd.

Hunter is doing great PTL and seems to be healed up nicely!!!!

Prayers needing to go up

I just have some prayer requests. 

1.  The first one is an unspoken. 

2.  My Dad/Pappy to the kids.  He has been in severe pain for about 2 weeks now.  Long story short, he has not been able to get in with pain management yet, but finally has an appointment scheduled on Valentine's Day, thank the Lord.  He has had two trips to the ER, no sleep hardly, and has lost function in his right arm (numb, weak, etc).  He has not been able to work or really do anything.  All he has been doing is talking to doctors and their staff, which has been a long, frustrating process.  

3.  My Aunt Tanya.  Not sure what is going on exactly, but I know it is health related. 

4.  My Aunt Dana and the whole Cohen family.  She just lost her son this week (my cousin), who was only 33 years old and had 2 little boys, ages 2 and 4.  Please, please pray for them.  It is such a tragedy and so sad.  

5.  Our little Andrew.  He went back to the ENT yesterday.  He still has fluid on his eardrums, but it has improved since his last visit on Dec. 27th.  Dr. Graves wants to give it 6 more weeks to see if it will clear up even more, so we have our next appointment March 30th, I believe.  At that point, there will probably be a decision made on if little guy needs a 3rd set of ear tubes.  Hoping, hoping not.  

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  

More Andrew

We received Andrew's bloodwork results back about his allergies to stinging insects.  For all of the different types of stinging insects, he did not seem to have an allergy to them, except for honey bees, which was only slightly elevated.  So in the meantime, we will keep the EpiPen and Benadryl on hand to use as needed and f/u with the allergist in July unless need be before then. 

Hunter and Andrew also had ENT appointments this week.  Hunter has been cleared - no more ENT visits for him.  Andrew has fluid behind his eardrum, but he is also sick.  Dr. Graves decided to put him on antibiotics for 5 days and Zyrtec for 30 days to try to dry him out and will see him back Feb 9th.  If at that time he fails his hearing test, we are looking at a 3rd set of tubes.  If not, then we will continue to f/u with ENT.  Praying for that appointment.  He knows what surgery is now and does not want it again.