Some Updates

Today Max had an occupational therapy evaluation and it just couldn't have gone better! Karen, the therapist, said that she saw nothing that indicated that he would have long-term deficits. She also said that the muscle tone problems he had early on have seemed to improve and he was able to do the most difficult range of motion with no problems and if he had muscle tone problems then he probably would not have been able to do that. She said many other positive things and for that we are so thankful. She said that because of his birth history she will need to continue to monitor him and reevaluate in 6 months just to be sure that everything continues to be on track.

A family from John's parent's church needs prayers. A baby boy named Kyler was born 8 weeks early and has a Grade 1 brain bleed (on a scale of 1-4, 4 being worst) on one side of his brain. I think this is fairly common in babies born really premature, but of course it is not common to the parents, so they need prayers. They are in the NICU now, probably with many of the same nurses and doctors we had. Most of you know, Max had Grade 3 and 4 brain bleeds, so this really touches my heart.

Also, baby Ethan's leukemia is back in full force. They really need lots of prayers. You can also go to his site to see how to become a bone marrow donor, which they are desperately in need of. There are donation sites being set up all over. I went to one at Harding this week and all you have to do is swab the inside of your mouth. Ethan has something that is very rare and there is not a match for him in the entire national database, he has a 1 in 2 million chance in finding a match, so it is urgent that people get out and get tested.