Sunday was absolutely beautiful! After church, we took a nice walk through Walsingham Park and Gavin was able to swing for a few minutes. If weather continues to be that nice on the weekends, then the park will be our getaway spot.
Monday afternoon, Gavin had his 9 month appointment. He is now 28 1/2 inches long and weighs 20 pounds, 11 ounces. They only gave him one shot this time but they also had to prick his little toe to test the iron in his blood. The doctor said, "He's perfect!" There is absolutely nothing developmentally wrong with him and he is just perfect. I love those reports.
Monday night, we went house hunting again. We saw four houses and though a couple of them were in decent condition, the location sucked. There was one that was great but the backyard was right up against an apartment complex. No thank you! We're still searching and praying for that one perfect house.
We've been praying for Eric's Grandpa, Alex, aka G-Pa. He was supposed to come into town today but he had some kind of internal bleeding. I'm just going to copy and paste the emails regarding his situation because I have no idea what I'm talking about:
"So here is the latest as of last night (Monday). Yesterday he had both a colonoscopy and an endoscopy. When Tom first spoke with Ken, he thought that the doctors suspected an upper gi bleed. But later in the day, when the results of the colonoscopy came in they confirmed that he has a lower GI bleed, most likely from his diverticular disease. Unfortunately, they can not find the exact location of the bleed so that they can't perform a procedure to stop it. The next step is to do an angiogram. That is where they go in through the femoral artery, inject dye and follow the movement of the dye through the circulation to his intestine on a screen. That will hopefully allow them to see where the bleed is, and then during that procedure they can inject medicine to the site to clot it off. Unfortunately, they do not have a physician at Mansfield General who can do this procedure (it is a bit specialized). So as of last night, they were planning to transport G-Pa to Columbus to a bigger hospital for this procedure. The plan is the procedure will be done sometime today.
I spoke with the doctor at Mansfield General last night and he said that Alex is stable. Blood pressure OK, and blood counts are low, but they are stable as well. so that is a good sign. If they wait for the bleeding to stop on its own and the bleeding worsens, then he would become unstable and would need emergency surgery. By doing the arteriogram at Columbus, we are hoping to avoid surgery."
Then we got another update later this afternoon:
"Finally have some good news. G-Pa did go down to Columbus last night, but as of this afternoon the bleeding has stopped. The doctors in Columbus feel that is a good sign and they have decided not to do the procedure. They will probably keep him a day or 2 more to observe. They will probably make some changes in his medications (and his diet!) so that there will be less risk of this happening again."
Eric was able to talk to G-Pa tonight and he could tell that it was an uncomfortable situation. So, we're still praying for him and hoping that he'll get to go home soon.
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