Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Yet another answered prayer and miracle
As you know we have been praying for great news with Granton's B cells. WE RECEIVED IT TODAY! We just found out they are working. The doctors new plan of action is to take him off of the IVIG immediately and test his IGG(I think that is the right acronym) each month for the next three months. After that, he gets one more test and then, we pray, he is cleared! When Jenni got the call from Children's Mercy (actually they called her three times in just a few minutes which never happens and shows they were very excited) they told her "this is great news." This is big to me because the doctors are very cautious not to give false hope. In fact, this is very big news on so many levels. Granton was not supposed to live through the transplant originally and we have been so thankful for his recovery, but we never thought God was done. Many of the best Doctors in the world have told us he would have to be on IVIG for the rest of his life and there was no hope of him ever getting off it. We have even been asked if we wanted to try another transplant in the future to see if it works 100%. We did not have a peace with going through it a second time. I don't think the Doctors thought it was the best choice ether at the time. Anyway, no one in the medical field thought this could happen and it did. If you know Granton's story, my last sentence has been typed more time than I can count. Now, as usual, there is more to the story! Granton's responding B cells ARE HIS!!! That's right I said HIS. These are the cells that did not work at birth. These are the cells that we tried to kill before the transplant because they were worthless and the donors need to take their place. How are they working? Don't know and to be honest I don't care. We have learned not to trust in that stuff, we just trust in the Lord. After we brought Granton home he got anemia and we gave him a medication called Rituximab which killed his donor's B cells. Thankfully, his T cells still worked so he had some immune system and his body used the IVIG for the rest of its defense, but now, it seams, his body is using it's own B cells to defend itself. I am not a doctor but everything I have been taught about SCIDs is that this is impossible. But we know with God all things are possible. We have prayed so many prayers that have been answered for Granton, however, they are never answered in the way I thought God would work. The crazy thing is I have sent up thousands of short little prayers saying, "God please make Granton's B cells work." I was thinking DONOR B cells because I knew his were worthless. God has answered my prayer literally because these are GRANTON's B cells! I never would have expected that! Our God is an awesome God, not a predicable one. On that note GET THIS! In our Sunday school class we have been going through the book of John for at least the last year. Sunday we made it to John 11. Eleven was my high school football number and has always been significant to me which makes this even more cool! This passage covers the death and resurrection of Lazarus. Our teacher made it a point that Jesus waited days before he went to Bethany. By that time, everyone knew Lazarus was dead. People lost hope that they would ever see him alive again. They had had hoped that Jesus would make him better, but after his death it seemed impossible. Our teacher said God does things for his glory in his own timing and in ways people never expect. When he said that, I thought about Granton and it hit me hard. We have been waiting on this test result, praying for working B cells. However, this is not about Granton, it is about bring glory to God. He raised a dead man in his own timing. He healed Lazarus in his own way on his own terms. He has also healed Granton on his own terms. I want to give all the glory to him and keep trusting in him every day. Please keep praying with me over Granton's next three months (or however long God decides) as he keeps getting tests to check his immune system. We look to Jesus for answers and give all the glory to God when we get them.
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