More Doctor's Appointments

After a reprieve from having so many doctor's appointments for Nathan, we have several coming up next week and would like to ask you to join us in prayer.

On Monday, we will be seeing his cardiologist, Dr. Davalós, who will be checking to see if the pressure has gone down in his lungs yet. Dr. Davalos will also do an ultrasound on Nathan to look at the duct to see if it has closed (this is called PDA if you want to google it).

We continue to pray and humbly ask God that the duct will be closed by Monday so that Nathan will not need another surgery. We feel that Nathan is doing really well - growing and developing as a typical four-month old (he will be four months on April 25) and are trusting God to take care of the problems that he has inside his little body.

Then on Friday, we have Nathan's regular monthly checkup with his pediatricians, Dr. Jijón and Dr. Fernando Aguinaga. At that time we will talk about the results from the tests with the cardiologist and also look at Nathan's progress. We may also do an x-ray on Nathan's left lung to see how much it has developed since his surgery to correct the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. And Nathan will be having some more of the routine vaccines for babies.

And then, probably a week later, he will have his final injection of the special (and expensive) vaccine of Synergis which has been so helpful in preventing any respiratory infections in Nathan.

So we'd appreciate your prayers in the next week or so as we have all this going on. Thankfully it's much easier to take Nathan out now. In fact, he seems to love being out with people! Whenever people (strangers or friends) come up to him and talk to him, he just smiles and laughs and jabbers away! We couldn't have asked for a happier baby! In fact, he rarely gets grumpy. And I'm not just bragging because he's our kid! We are so grateful for Nathan's easy-going personality - especially in spite of all that he went through early on.

And, again, we want to thank everyone for their encouraging notes and emails! Your prayers and thoughtfulness mean a lot to us! THANK YOU! And as they say in Spanish - bendiciones!