Slow but steady

It's been a while since I updated, I'm sorry. Life has definitely taken a new turn since James' last surgery and it keeps us all VERY busy.

James has not needed any further shunt revisions - PRAISE THE LORD!! We continue to pray that he does not need any other surgeries.

He had a CT scan last week to check on the ventricles (which look fine) and it also said that the tumor is stable. Of course, we won't have another MRI done to show officially the size of the tumor until the end of October. But we continue to pray for stability, or even better, shrinkage of this tumor.

We have look at other options for James, should they be needed. Records are being sent to Boston to see if James is a candidate for proton beam radiation. But in the meantime, we continue on everything that has given us the most recent stability.

As far as James' recovery for all the surgeries this summer, it is slow. He is still unstable when walking and needs assistance. He still talks slowly. He goes to physical therapy twice a week and we have started to take him to the Y to further help him build strength. We are looking at options of websites that will offer him a work out in thinking skills, but we need to find him another laptop, as all of ours went down this summer.

More than anything, we pray that God will intervene on James' behalf. We believe that God can do what nothing else has and we are asking Him for that.

Here are some pictures of our recent trip to Georgia to attend Joseph's graduation from boot camp at Fort Benning. James really enjoyed seeing all the soldiers.




The guys in Joe's platoon signed this shirt for James.