So Thankful

If you did not know or haven't noticed, Addisen has a dent on her head.

You can actually look on the first pic of the last blog and kind of see it.

Anyways, it appeared sometime between 2-3 months. It was bruised at first and now is just a dent. There is no other way to describe it.

Our doctor has been watching it and did not believe it had to do anything with the skull. He thought it was damage to the soft tissue. (That's a long story...too long and too off topic for this posting.) Just to be super safe he found a craniofacial specialist at Cooks Children Hospital in Fort Worth. So today we make the trek and met with the doctor.

PRAISE THE LORD that this specialist confirmed our doctor's thoughts! Addie's skull is a-okay. He told us to watch it as she grows to make sure that it doesn't grow (out of proportion to her normal rate of growth) but that other than that she should be good to go. It can be corrected by a short plastic surgery but he said that if it doesn't bother us to leave it be.

Again, PRAISE GOD!

This visit touched me not just in that we got a good report for Addie.

While we were in the neuroscience waiting room, I was continually and silently praising the Lord for the health of my child. My heart was broken to see little children who had some serious impairments and to see their parents alongside them. To think that a life of appointments with specialists and waiting rooms and hospitals is the norm when we only had to experience it once. To sit beside a family whose 16 month old was put under a few hours earlier so he could have a MRI. They were waiting to meet with the doctor to go over the results. Oh, how my heart goes out to them!

I got to see how a staff member was hanging out in the lobby to interact with the kids. She even checked on us because we were waiting so long. I saw books that were donated that were there for the kids to read. Addie and I read one. What a blessing those people and books are!

There are no words to express my thankfulness to my God and Father for my healthy baby girl. It is hard to express my sorrow for those kids and parents that don't have a life full of healthiness. I have no reason to complain or be unhappy with anything in my life. How blessed I am!

Please, please take a moment and lift up those kids in prayer. Pray for their health and for the wonderful doctors and nurses. Pray for their parents and their marriage. Pray for their siblings.

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Matthew 19:14 (New International Version)