More Small Steps for Caleb

Our nurse just said "we really had a good day!"  Thanks Jennifer for your good care of Caleb!  Yesterday Caleb had his third procedure to separate the blood in order to get the bad white blood cells out of his system. The count dropped from nearly a million to 55,000.   We praise the Lord for this success.  Today it was as low as 44,000.   We've had great care.  In fact, I'm listening to one of the other nurses check to see how Caleb is doing.  We have been blessed by the Sunrise Children's Hospital Staff and their caring ways.  We owe a great debt of gratitude to Dr. Walsh and her associates here in the Peds ICU

Yesterday was an exciting day for Caleb as six of his choir and band buddies showed up to encourage him.  They even broke out in song.  It was a special concert for the staff.  Caleb smiled more than he has so far since being in the hospital.

I am overwhelmed with all of you who have shown prayer support!  It has certainly helped make a difference.  It has caused me to think more about the Theology of prayer, healing, sovereignty, and many other important aspects of our God.

We are infinitely blessed and are amazed at the God who cares and loves us.  He has demonstrated His love through many of you.  Thanks you for being a part of the great Body of Christ in your encouragement.  Continue to pray.  Caleb has gone from a critical cancer patient to a still serious one that has made good strides  for a permanent healing in God's Will.   My current short term requests are that Caleb will be able to be rid of his vision problem and that he will be able to get up and walk around.  He still has not been able to do such things because of his critical condition.

Finally, on a funny note, Caleb still perks up and sports info.  We were both appalled that the Coyotes gave up game tying goals in the last 15 seconds the last two games.  At least we got one win.  But, Caleb still is interested and was conversing with one of the nurses about UofA's #1 basketball recruiting class.  This Arizona grad didn't know nearly as much as Caleb did.

Thanks for your prayers-we know that the faithful will continue to lift him up to the Great Healer.