Update on Ethan's Tests - Please Keep Praying

Please continue to pray for Ethan. After getting some good news from the opthamologist on Monday (the MRI was normal and his vision issues should be correctable through therapy and possibly an eye surgery in the future), we received some unsettling news yesterday resulting from a portion of the blood work that was done. Ethan’s lactic acid levels were elevated which can be an indication of a mitochondrial disorder. At this point, they are going to continue with additional tests to confirm those results and then, if it is consistent, they will conduct more thorough testing to determine the exact nature of the disorder. These types of disorders run the spectrum from life threatening to more of a minor nature (ie. low muscle tone/physical & vision delays), so at the moment we’re feeling a lot of uncertainty. It may be another couple of months until we are able to gain any more clarity, so in the meantime please pray for strength, endurance, faith and joy in midst of heartache for us and also please pray for the wholeness and complete health/healing of our little boy.

Pray for Ethan

This Friday at 8:00am Ethan will have an MRI of his brain as well a panel of blood tests. Please pray that his little body will be able to handle the sedation well and, most of all, that the results of all the tests will come back normal. We should know the results of the MRI by Monday or Tuesday. Thanks for your prayers!

Ethan's First Word

Ethan has been dazzling us for some time now with his immense vocabulary. OK, so maybe it's not immense, but there is one word he says fairly consistently when eating his rice cereal. His enthusiasm for eating ushered the word from his lips and since we first heard it about a month ago, we've been trying to capture it on video. So here you go, Ethan's first word...YUM!!!