Perspective...

It all depends on how you look at it... Kevin tends to be a more optimistic person who sees one side of things and I tend to say "that's true, but, " I have been like this with Isaac's illness anyway. I have been having a hard month again watching some symptoms that make me say he's not getting better or it's getting worse. We had our doctor appointments in the Cities and Mankato yesterday. Again, perspective was an issue.

The 11 a.m. appt. with Dr. G.: She told us many times that Isaac has "Chronic Ulcerative Colitis". Kevin says this morning he almost asked her, "What does he have again?" She also told us the worst case scenario about possibly removing his colon but that she wasn't saying that would happen. She also kept looking on her computer screen telling us how bad this lab number was from his blood results and how deficient he was in something else. I asked a couple times if that was from his Monday blood tests because I had a copy of them and I didn't see those numbers. "No, she says, they are from when he was in the hospital in September." !!??!!?? I was confused why she kept looking at them. I wanted to talk about the recent ones. She did, almost reluctantly, say he looked better than the last time. She is very nice I want to say. I know she cares about what happens to Isaac. It's just perspective.

The 2:30 p.m. appt. with Dr. K was very different. He was upbeat and very pleased with how Isaac looked. He played around with the boys and talked to us about the current labs and pointed out all the improvements and that he could see Isaac moving to healing. The labs definitely showed that his body is starting to produce things on it's own and that his body is changing for the good. He described how the ulcers heal. Isaac's body has some work to do but it was nice to know that there is something going on even though we don't see it all outwardly yet. Please pray for these ulcers to heal completely. Dr. K. said we are out of the critical stage! I did quiz him on all the results because I couldn't understand why he has such a different stand about them. Perspective!

I am thankful for the day. When I was sitting in Dr. K.'s office I was wondering, "what's the point of being here. No-one can help us." God gave me a pleasant gift yesterday. I will try to keep that in front of me this week and the next.