Wordful Wednesday

As you can see from the picture, Greer is "happily healing" from her laser treatment yesterday. I know that Thankgiving is over, but yesterday reminded me of what I am truly thankful for this year. When Greer came into our life almost 11 months ago, I had no idea how much her little life would rock our world. When she was born with the Port Wine Stain, there were so many questions about her health and her future, and it was my first real experience with that emotional roller coaster that comes when you have a child with health issues.

But we prayed for her, we loved her, we covered her with kisses. We adjusted to life with three kids (which was WAY harder than we had anticipated.....), we visited multiple doctors, we asked lots of questions, and found lots of answers (some that were the polar opposite of the answer we got the fifteenth first time we asked them). I started a blog, I found a support network, we met people we never expected to ever meet in a million years (people who will be friends for a lifetime!). Those friends have prayed for us, and cried with us, and answered our questions. Many of them we will never meet. I started to receive emails and phone calls and friend requests on Facebook from other moms. Moms with babies born just after Greer, and they were right there where I was in January. And I was able to help them, and pray for them, and tell them what I had learned. It has definitely come full circle.

Greer began laser treatments, and they were NOT fun (as Lucy would say)! She cried, and was bruised, and was swollen, but with each treatment it got a little easier. Her birthmark is almost gone. It's fading away more and more with each treatment, and for that we thank our loving, faithful God. We thank the doctors and the nurses and our family. So far she has no signs of Sturge-Weber Syndrome, and we will pray for that to continue. The next year will hold a few more tests to be sure, but so far so good.

So this holiday season, I am thankful. Thankful for our health, our family, our friends, our church family, our blog followers, our prayer warriors.....all of it. And I am thankful for the precious angel that Greer is. She is just about the most delicious baby on the planet. I am so in love with her (and all my babies), and I just praise God for giving them to me.

Praise Be To God....for HE is faithful!

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