A New Year : 2008

Happy New Year to everyone! We want to thank God for 2007 and pray that 2008 is a great year for everyone. It would seem through are human eyes that 2007 was not the greatest year for Jack and are family. When reflecting through spiritual eyes we can see how it is all part of Gods plan and purpose for are lives and family. God helped us get some answers this past year. He blessed us with some help financially through the successful benefit. He brought Jack through some hard procedures and tests. He gave us as his parents strength, wisdom,and great joy in many ways. God is the author of the story called life. All of are lives are so that we fulfill Gods purpose and make his name known. How exciting to think he is using us. We believe through are trials we will become stronger and have a great testimony. I know some of you have seen us down or us have a hard time with everything. To that I say we are human. Through it all, we get up stronger and the downs are short lived. Jack will be a walking testimony for the Lord, however the Lord chooses to do it. We in 2008 want to make a difference and make mitochondrial disease more known. We welcome any suggestions in doing that.

Jack today is doing better in some ways and having a hard time in others. That is the way the disease is. He is finally seeming to recover from the surgery. He missed almost a hole month of school and therapy. We pray and ask you all to pray also that Jack doesn't have a hard time getting back into the swing of school and therapy.

He has some upcoming testing and due to this has been taken off a lot of medication. We are seeing him having some more eye issues and stability problems.

He went for his GI second opinion and has some more testing coming up for that. They are trying some different medications and we will see. I will fill in at a later time regarding that. I am trying to keep this lite. The appointment was good, yet the end result for help is hard. Jack is also being refereed out for the new diagnosis. His specialist here is trying some new meds because he is experiencing tetany. It is very painful and he is not totally sure why he is experiencing this. This means more appointments, travel for both new doctors and two upcoming tests next week for Jack. They are not taking the GI issues lightly. He had lost some weight. They are not overly concerned about the weight as to why. Just keep Jack in your prayers if possible.

Jack had a nice Christmas. He was so full of excitement and wounder. He is so animated and full of happiness. He has so many questions and his thought process is amazing. He was so excited and funny opening his gifts. He is so thankful and full of love. He out of the blue said thank you later in the night on Christmas. He out of the blue tells all of us he loves us on a daily bases . He is such an amazing little boy. If you have a chance to be around him and experience him it is a blessing.

We want to again thank everyone who keeps Jack and are family in there prayers. The words of encouragement on his website, emails, phone calls, and knowing people are praying really helps us in the rough times. God has blessed us with so many people who care and want to help. We still stress at times about finances, the future for Jack, the lack of answers, the 13 doctors and there different opinions, but when we stop and think peace is what we feel because we know God is in control of everything. We are so very blessed in so many ways. We are confident 2008 will be a good year. Every year is a good year with God in control of your life.