Hi All! We hope you had a wonderful summer! It's been a handful of months since our last post, so we wanted to bring you up to speed on how things are going on our end :)
First and foremost, let me give you an update on Jas. Going back to May, Jas had a stent sewn in to try to fix his esophagus. The goal being to help his esophagus heal in the shape of a circle so food can pass through a wide opening. Well, we went back in July to have the stent removed and unknown to us it had popped the stitches and fallen into his stomach many many weeks prior. So... that was discouraging as Jas had experienced some serious pain the first two weeks of the stent being in. However, what the Dr. shared with us was that based on the shape of Jas' esophagus after having the stent in place for even a couple weeks, it more than likely wouldn't have fixed the problem even if it had been in place for the full two months based on the shape it already went back to - the hourglass. The conversation then turned to what other options we could consider for the future. To be honest, they have tried most everything and none of the other options did we consider to be good ones at this point in time. Which leads us to the final option we are proceeding with. To see how long Jason can possibly go without a stretching before it gets scary more or less. So, here we are now 2 months out from his last stretching and back into unchartered waters. The Dr. hopes that Jas' esophagus opening will plateau at a point and hopefully it will be something Jas can learn to live with. That is what we are praying for as well! Time will tell!
Also, this Friday, Sept 5, Jas has his next round of CAT scans and additionally we are meeting with his Sarcoma Dr. as well as his Esophageal Dr., so it will be a long day! Please pray for our minds to be guarded this week with God's promises and to be blanketed in His peace that passes all understanding leading up to and including Friday. As some of you know, the week leading up to scans can be a really tough week emotionally for both of us, so we would really appreciate your prayers! And of course for the scans to be CLEAN is a big request too!
Besides that, we had a really enjoyable summer! We were able to visit family & friends in Ohio in June, go on fun camping trips, Dutch Wonderland, Believe Big race, PPF FUNomenon, OSU Football game (Thank you Dodges!), etc. It all went by so fast and was super fun! Now Taylor (5.5 yrs) has her first week of Kindergarten under her belt and Tyler (almost 8 months) is rolling around everywhere, babbling a lot and has 2 teeth :) Where does time go?
Here are some pics below from our summer. Thanks again for your prayers in advance for our family this week!
With Much Love,
Jas, Meg, Taylor & Ty
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| Dutch Wonderland |
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| Jas ran a 15K trail run and T her first 1 mile race |
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| PPF Funomenon |
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| He sure misses his sister now |
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| Go Bucks! |
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| 1st Day of Kindergarten, Ready to Go! |
