Thanks so much for everyone that has been praying for us and for Luke. He had his EMG test done today at University Hospital in Indianapolis. It was quite painful for him and equally as heartbreaking for Brett and I to watch. They specialist was able to confirm 100% that there is no nerve damage in his legs. This is good news I guess, if you can call it that. The fact that his nerves are not damaged indicates that his issues with walking and his legs are coming from either his brain, his spine or both. This further points to a demyelenating disorder, like Multiple Sclerosis. We already know from his last MRI that he has the one spot on his brain, but at the time his spine looked clear. He has started to show some signs that he might be having vision problems as well has some numbness and pain in his cheek and face.
Because of the worsening of his symptoms he will be having another MRI on Wednesday, July 30th. He will also be having his vision checked in a few weeks by another specialist. With all that is going on around him and his weekly visits to one doctor or another, he never ceases to amaze us with how well he handles it all. He just stumbles around, drooling like a St Bernard with a huge smile on his face. God is amazing and we praise him for what He has done in Luke's life already, and what we know that He has planed for him. We are so blessed!!!
Friday, July 25, 2008
A blog, who me?
OMG!!! I can't believe I have made it this far in setting up this blog without breaking the computer or crashing the ENTIRE world wide Internet. All who know me can attest that I am not exactly technically literate, but I must be doing something right. A blog, who me? I can't believe it myself! So am I officially a Blogger, is that even a politically correct term?
Anyway, here I am.
I must confess that it took me a few minutes, and more than a few attempts with spell check, to come up with a name for this blog. I was reading something recently that posed the question that we all have thought about. "How do you want people to remember you?" It was in a women's magazine and many of the readers responses centered around being remembered for their mothering and their love of their family. It really made me think about what I want to have accomplished. Of course I want people to remember me as someone who loved her family and her children, but more importantly I want to be significant.
The dictionary defines significant as:
1: having meaning, 2 a: having or likely to have influence or effect, 2 b: probably caused by something other than mere chance.
I want my life to have meaning and more importantly for everyone to know that how I lived was caused by something other than mere chance, but instead created in me by God.
That brings me to the word relevant. This was another concept that I really had been struggling to attain. This need to be of the world, to be like everyone else. Recently I have been realizing how much my striving for relevance has been interfering with my relationship with God. God hasn't called me to blend in. If I really want my life to have significance than I have to stand apart from that which I have been trying so hard to fit in to.
And so, this is my attempt to sort through the thoughts that bombard me and the experiences that amaze me as I am on a path to be significantly irrelevant.
Anyway, here I am.
I must confess that it took me a few minutes, and more than a few attempts with spell check, to come up with a name for this blog. I was reading something recently that posed the question that we all have thought about. "How do you want people to remember you?" It was in a women's magazine and many of the readers responses centered around being remembered for their mothering and their love of their family. It really made me think about what I want to have accomplished. Of course I want people to remember me as someone who loved her family and her children, but more importantly I want to be significant.
The dictionary defines significant as:
1: having meaning, 2 a: having or likely to have influence or effect, 2 b: probably caused by something other than mere chance.
I want my life to have meaning and more importantly for everyone to know that how I lived was caused by something other than mere chance, but instead created in me by God.
That brings me to the word relevant. This was another concept that I really had been struggling to attain. This need to be of the world, to be like everyone else. Recently I have been realizing how much my striving for relevance has been interfering with my relationship with God. God hasn't called me to blend in. If I really want my life to have significance than I have to stand apart from that which I have been trying so hard to fit in to.
And so, this is my attempt to sort through the thoughts that bombard me and the experiences that amaze me as I am on a path to be significantly irrelevant.
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