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Family Update
Mar 13, 2009 Categorized: Life with Kids • News •
Thank you to everyone who has prayed for us and written us notes of encouragement over the past several weeks. We are so grateful for our fellow prayer warriors, and I can tell you we have literally FELT your prayers in tangible ways. I am happy to report that the McKelveys are all smiles again, despite the trials, and we are reclaiming normalcy despite our few new routines.
You’ll remember that last month we started Hunter’s daily growth hormone shots. That was quite the experience, and one we would preferred to have skipped. After a couple of weeks of fighting, she finally settled down and let us give the shot with very little complaint (though now she is back to squirming again). It was just in time for us to establish an unexpected new routine with Will.
On one of our weekly trips up to the city for biofeedback therapy, the doctors discovered his kidneys had fluid on them, and they wouldn’t let us leave without learning how to catheterize him. We had known this would be a good possibility in the future, but I was not prepared at that moment to take home a truckload of medical supplies and delve head first into the worst weekend of my life. But we had no choice. Kidneys are important.
I cannot even begin to tell the horrors of our first three days of this routine, but they involved a lot of tears, a lot of prayer, and a lot of bribery. Throughout the entire weekend, I felt an unexplainable sense of peace, grace, and sustenance that only the Lord can provide. God took my hands and my mouth and the entire remainder of my body and made it all work together to accomplish nothing short of a miracle in establishing a routine that Will is likely to continue for a lifetime. We do believe in the supernatural healing of God, and we pray that He will send some of it our way, but we are fully accepting and anticipating that this is not a short-term assignment. God’s grace is big enough to handle that.
Will is now doing fabulous, and I’m here to tell you that he has been 100% dry since we left the doctor’s office with our gazillion dollars of medical supplies. That, dear friends, is the biggest answer to prayer. And now my little guy is a new person. It’s like a weight has been lifted from him--a weight entirely too big for such a young person to carry. What I thought was a strong-willed personality I now know was a medical illness. He is happy, compliant, confident, and feels great too. What seemed like (and was for a little while) the hardest thing we’d ever face has now become the biggest blessing (aside from our salvation and families) that we’ve ever received. We are so blessed and so thankful.
One of the interesting dynamics to this whole situation is the fact that I’m involved in a pretty big website project in the middle of it all. It seems like ill timing for a such a big job when I have such major family trials to get through. But the project itself is a testimony to the Lord’s provision and involvement in the intricate details of our lives. First, He brought the client directly to me on no effort of my own. Next, the week our stuff with Will went down, the client put the project on hold for internal issues. It was just in time for me to have a break from the computer to cope with daily living. Then, right as we got back on track with our routines and ready for the outside world again, the client was ready and raring to go. I couldn’t have managed the process better myself. And I have to say, this is almost ALWAYS how my job goes.
I often say that the Lord gave me my web design career. I honestly think He delivered it to me straight from Glory with a shimmery bow tied on it. I have had to work, and study, and pull my hair out at times, but it’s all because of God’s power that I can call myself a web developer. And every single website I have done has danced around the rest of my life as though someone else were in control, allowing me to care for my family first and my clients somewhere else down the line. Somehow, amidst the craziness of my work-at-home life with special needs children and a husband in the ministry, all a thousand miles from our family, I have managed to make my clients feel pampered while being there for every special little moment for my family. I’m not going to get rich while attending class parties and doctor’s visits, but at least I can do those things and know there’s still extra income to help with these medical crises. I can’t take much credit for all of this. Only God could make all of this happen and do it so elegantly. Praise Him for His goodness to us!
Hollabacks
Oh Heather! My heart aches and rejoices for you all at the same time. What a strong testimony you are of God’s faithfulness.
I pray that things continue to get “back to normal” and that these trials will soon be a distant memory. What an awesome mommy your little ones have, they are truly blessed.
Posted by Michelle on 03/13 at 04:03 PM