Prayer needs

Well, we spent another day at the doctors today, trying to figure out why Caleb is not gaining weight like he should. He is 3 1/2 months old now and at 9 lbs 12 oz his weight and height are off the bottom of the charts. He was 9lbs 7 oz last Friday so that is some improvement, but not without effort on my part to wake him up several times a night and from naps during the day to feed him every 2 to 21/2 hours. Right now we are hoping that it is acid reflux and he is on Previcid this week to see if it will make a difference in helping him to keep his milk down. If the Previcid doesn’t help we will be looking at more tests to figure out what is happening with him. On the bright side, he passed a hearing test with flying colors and is reaching all of the other developmental milestones he should be reaching (such as making eye contact, batting at toys, smiling and laughing) His head size is right at the 50th percentile, which means his brain is developing as it should.

Katie was supposed to get her adenoids out this morning but had a 103 fever all last night so we had to cancel. We have rescheduled for Nov 13th and if all goes well with her and Caleb is doing well we hope to make it down to Sacramento before Thanksgiving. Hannah will also be getting her adenoids out that day.

We are feeling a little discouraged, after trying so hard to get all these things taken care of before our return to Indonesia it feels like a whole new set of “things” are cropping up. It is hard to plan ahead for 3 years in advance and try to get all these medical things taken care of while we are in the states (and have met our deductibles for the year).

We see the Lord working in all these things and feel his assurance but just ask that you would say an extra prayer for us as we make important decisions this week on what the best course of action for Caleb will be. The Doctor he is seeing has recommended that we not return to Indonesia with him if we don’t see him really starting to thrive in these next couple of weeks. This would be a hard decision to make as we could lose our return tickets and Greg would need to go back by himself over Christmas to renew our paper work.

We would love some extra prayer for these things in the coming weeks!