Update 5

Luke went in for the scopes around 12:30 on thursday afternoon . He was feeling okay. The painful lump in his abdomen seems to be pretty much gone. He is on two antiboitics and a steriod. We will update again after we talk to the doctor. Thanks for your prayers. Luke has been overwhelmed to see how many people care about him and are praying for him.

Update 4

Well the Doctor moved the scope to Thursday at noon. Today they inserted a mid-line catheter in his upper arm so he can get his meds. It is like a more efficient I.V. He should be released after the scopes tomorrow. A home health nurse will come to our house for five days after he is released to administer the medication through the mid-line so he doesn't have to be at the hospital, and after that he will probably be taking oral meds. At the hospital now he just moved to a private room. The doctors are using liquid meds via I.V. to bring down inflamation & infection. Luke says if you're eating supper tonight, whatever you're having, it's got to be better than miralax!
Thanks for the prayers!
~Rachel

Another update

This is Rachel now. They got the CT scan results back and talked to the Doctor. It looks like he has the classic symptoms of crohn's disease. He will be at the hospital over night and in the morning he will have a colonoscopy and an upper endoscopy. The painful lump in the lower righ abdomen is inflamation and thickening of the intestine. We'll hopefully find out more after the scope about where to go from here. Thanks for all the prayers!
~Rachel

Update

Hey everyone here is another update on Luke. The Drs office called this morning and said that when ever we could show up they would fit Luke in. So my parents and Luke left around 10:00 o'clock this morning. They had to wait almost all morning though before Dr. Smith could see them. When he looked at Luke's charts he said that he wanted another CT scan done with an I.V. contrast. So about a half an hour ago Dad, Mom and Luke headed over to Luthern Children's Hospital for the CT scan. The results are going back to Dr. Smith and he is going to read them. They are probably going in for surgery tonight. If the Dr see anything on the CT scan it is going to be a surgery to fix what ever is wrong. If he cant see anything it is going to be exploratory surgery.
Please pray for Luke. He had to have a CT scan before and when you have a CT scan done you have to drink something called berryium(?). He had a lot of trouble getting it down. So pray that it will be easier this time.
And that our family can just be peaceful with knowing that God is in control.
Miranda

Update on Luke's Health

Hi everyone. Just a quick update on Luke's health. As many of you know, he has been dealing with various infections and stomach aches since around September of 2010 and we just haven't gotten to the bottom of it.

In December of 2011, he had blood work, CT scan of abdomen, ultrasound of groin and liver. All clear. Still dealing with infection and pain in abdomen.

After the ski trip last weekend, Luke showed me where he has been saying it hurts. There is a lump I can feel there now. Then his groin area swelled up again. Our family doctor saw him and said probably a hernia causing pressure in the area and referred us to a pediatric surgeon and called for an ultrasound.

So today, he had an ultrasound. The tech could feel the lump, but does not think it is a hernia. She said the radiologist would read it tonight, send results to the doc and tomorrow morning, we should get a call. Then we see the pediatric surgeon, or he calls for a CT scan first. then possibly exploratory surgery.

Luke is in good spirits but just moving a little slow and is tired. This is not at all normal for this boy, as many of you know...

We appreciate all of your prayers and will try to update tomorrow as soon as we know something.

Julie

A Special Thank You

We want to make a special post to thank Philip & Lana for their time and energy and help during the last 15 months.

It was hard not to be able to be there and be able to take care of things ourselves, but they went above and beyond in helping us. Many times, we felt so guilty for asking them to check on yet another thing at the house or help fix something yet again. It was a helpless feeling, and we so appreciated their love and care.

We love you guys and appreciate all you've done more than we could ever express.

We Are Closed

We got a call at 3:35 pm today from our Realtor Mark Darby in Atlanta that our closing was final. We praise God for helping us find Mark who has been an amazing help through these last few crazy months. God Bless You all for your Prayers and Support.