9:35 AM Sunday Day 48

Happy Sunday to you, hope your weekend is going well.  We are continuing to be excited at Zoe’s progress.  Before I begin, let me say that the story on Zoe in the local newspaper is scheduled to come out next Sunday, October 5th.  Sorry for the confusion, but please look for it next weekend.  We have learned how to feed Zoe using his G-tube and it is quite simple.  For those of you who have worked with one before, you know what I’m talking about.  When we lived in B’ham, Isaac had a little friend who had one so I had been just a little familiar with the idea of it.  (Thank you, Danielle for being my example!)   Anyway, before the surgery, Zoe was taking apx. 40 cc’s and today he is back up to 35 cc’s.  If that is tolerated well, he will be up to 40 tomorrow, then by Wednesday they expect us to “room in” with him over night.  Then we would be looking at heading home Thursday.  That is the plan for now, we will let you know if it changes.  Jim mentioned Zoe pulled out his oxygen tube, he must have just wanted to show us all how strong he really is.  He has been free of the tube since sometime early Friday.  It looks like at this point, all he may need to go home on is a heart monitor.  Previously, we were under the understanding that he would go home on 3 different machines, so the news of just one machine is exciting.  Please continue to pray for his liver, it is enlarged and needs to decrease in size.  It is decreasing, but very slowly.  It is believed that the liver problem is connected to the blood count (red blood cells, platelets, etc) problem, so we need it all to be better.  Zoe has come so far from where he was and we are so pumped about that…grateful beyond words.  We continue to pray and believe for his FULL recovery, that he will tell for himself one day of the power of God that has sustained his life.

We continue to be thankful for the provisions of the Ronald McDonald House, where we  have been staying now for 7 weeks (tomorrow).  If it were not for this establishment, we would most likely be living out of our car right now, seeing as how staying in a  hotel for 7 weeks would get quite pricey.  For those of you who are able and willing, please check out info about the house.  Many have asked what they can do to help us, and it would mean alot to us if people could help out the house.  There are simple things like collecting pop tabs and bringing them by to drop of so they can be recycled, or donating food for the families here.  If you can, take a look and see how you can help. 

Thank you for taking time to check up on Zoe, and most of all, thank you for the prayers offered in faith.  May you and your families have a wonderful, beautiful Sunday.