Thanks for your prayers. Our weekend together was awesome. We ate pizza, went sled riding, launched indoor balloons, jumped on the bed, hiked at Jennings, made a snow tunnel in a huge drift; it was wonderful. The boys are so good with each other and we enjoyed their company very much. It’s hard to imagine life or parenting getting much better than it was over the last two days.

Tomorrow Jodi will drop Justy at my parents’ house in Ohio and she and JT will head south to Cincinnati again. His scope and subsequent G-tube surgery is scheduled for Tuesday morning. The way I understand it, they’ll go down his esophagus and take a good look around first, taking a bunch of biopsies while they’re at it. If things look reasonably clear, the surgeon will insert the G-tube so that it comes right out through the wall of his stomach.

They will be in the hospital while he recovers Tuesday night at least. Wednesday he’ll get more infusions to knock back his immune system in an effort to quell the GVHD and we’re hoping he might get discharged Wednesday. But that might be wishful thinking. 

So he needs your big-time prayers: for good results from the scope, for a successful surgery, for good clean healing around the G-tube site, for the GVHD to stop, for his skin to heal from the damage the GVHD has caused, for complete protection and health. And don’t forget Jodi too. These trips to Cincinnati and the nights in the hospital take their toll or her as well. I’ll put out another blog mid-week as we see how all of this shakes out. Thank you for remembering us.