Hi All - Good Morning! I wanted to send out a quick update to let you know that Jason's procedure to have his esophagus stretched has been moved to this Thursday at 11:30am vs. our original plan on Wednesday.
We've been through enough scopes at this point to recognize that if they have you scheduled on one floor vs. another, that means they will either use anesthesia or something else to try to knock you out. After the 1st scope that Jas had at Univ of MD, and them using Benadryl (I think that's what it was) to try to knock him out, we learned very quickly that we will never do that again! It didn't work 100% on Jas, therefore he "came to" halfway through the scope which was awful for both him and our Dr.! And when it did finally take effect, it took him about 4 hours to "come to" fully so that we could come home. So, Praise God that Jas recognized that they scheduled him on the non-anesthesia floor, so we could get that rescheduled before we found out the hard way! THANK YOU GOD!
We also want to send a BIG THANKS to you for your prayers since our last post! It's been amazing to truly feel your prayers and for the weight of what we were feeling to continue to be lifted off our shoulders and onto our mighty God's! And, I have to say that while God continues to love on Jas, he has also been very specifically loving on me as well. There have been some thoughts I've had this past week about oh it would be so nice to do .... or have... but I tell you I never discussed these thoughts with anyone - not a soul! I never even thought much more about these thoughts myself, because that's all they were - nice to haves but not true needs from my perspective. Low and behold, God just blew me away this week when those nice to have thoughts came true and on a scale ten fold! Once again, God didn't have to do that for me as he has my love regardless, but He continues to remind me over and over that he hears and knows every single thought and emotion that crosses my mind and wanted me to be lavishly loved on. I'm feeling like his princess this week for sure : ) Thanks to everyone that was part of the surprises - you know who you are! Love each and every one of you!
One other thing I wanted to mention was about something I worked on while we were in the hospital for Jas' surgery. As many of you recall, we've had scripture posted up throughout our house as "wallpaper" since this past fall to constantly be bathed in God's promises and truths throughout this 2nd run with cancer. Thanks to my dear friend Kat for the encouragement to do this! Well, I took all of our scripture cards into the hospital with us, typed them all up into a document and now can share with anyone who is interested or knows of someone who could benefit from them. I have them both in a Word Doc and a pdf file. The problem is that I'm unable to attach to the blog. So, if you would like me to email the document to you, please send me an email at megan_wiles@yahoo.com and I would gladly send your way. We've definitely found it absolutely necessary to set up a hedge of protection around our house to keep God in the forefront of our minds and the evil one OUT! We would love to help others by sharing this also! Nothing fancy, but something that is free and straight from the Bible that is full of comfort.
In the meantime, Taylor continues to keep us busy : ) We're working hard on getting her "big girl" room ready for when she turns 3 at the beginning of April. Not knowing what the end of March may hold for us, we're wanting to get as far along as we can on her room so she can graduate to being a big girl and into her new bedroom. Thanks to those who are helping with the details along the way - we couldn't have even began to imagine doing this without your help - YOU ROCK! We've hyped this up for a solid year now, so this girl is ready to be "Big" lol! Here's a funny for you all...the other day she looked at me as we were wrapping gifts for friends of ours and she said, "Mommy, since my favorite color is pink, can I have ALL my presents on my birthday in pink?" Oh, how refreshing it is for that to be her biggest worry after everything we've been through this past year. That brought a huge smile to my face!
We'll keep you posted on how Thursday goes! Praying hard that Jas is able to go back to eating food again without having to blend everything up to prevent food from getting stuck. And, we continue to practice patience as we wait for God to reveal his plan for Jas on next steps.
With Much Love In His Healing Name,
Meg
