Continued prayers for Cannon and Grace

Thank you for your prayers and calls regarding Cannon and Grace.  Cannon has improved a little since Thursday getting a little more of his personality back but has spent the entire weekend laying flat, in a dark room.  He has continued to experience incredible headaches and when he walks he has been dizzy. We thought he had perked up a little more this afternoon and even tried to move him to a sitting up position but that only lasted about 15 minutes before he became very sick to his stomach and started having blurred vision again.  So, he had to lay back down.  We continue to pray each day that he gets better.  Now that he seems to have more of a memory, he is very upset about missing his theater camp last Thursday and Friday and we are all praying that he feels better tomorrow so that he will be able to go tomorrow afternoon and throughout the week.  He is supposed to be in a musical on Friday evening but looking at him now it is hard to think that he could rehearse for 4 hours each day and be ready for that on Friday.  But, we are still praying for him since we know how much he loves this and this is the only activity he signed up for the entire summer.  His 13th birthday is also 5 days away and so that is another prayer....that he will be well to celebrate that.  He already knows that his party (taking a few friends to Six Flags) has had to be postponed for several weeks but it would be nice to have him feel better.  Please just continue to pray for him and thank you for all of your prayers for him to date.

Grace's appt at Children's on Friday was very long and hard.  We heard a lot of information regarding a new medical condition that will require further testing this week and in the weeks to follow.  Grace came home from the appointment and had a really hard afternoon, spending most of the day crying.  I am not sure if she was sad from what she heard at the appointment, tired from the long day, frustrated that her brother was getting so much attention from me, or a combination of all of the above.  Saturday wasn't much better for her and so Kevin took her to swim for a few hours and even though she seemed tired, I think it did her good to get some one on one attention alone with Daddy.  Today has been a better day for her, but overall, she is still very tired.

Tomorrow, Grace and I head back down to the hospital to see another specialist.  This time to discuss MRI results from April regarding the cyst in her nasal septum.  I expect that he will want to just keep watching this area, based on what the MRI report said, and so I hope this appt is just routine.  But, I will tell you all of the drs appts are starting to wear on Grace and me.  Please pray for our patience tomorrow and that Grace will have a good day.

Thank you for continuing to pray for all of us,

Carrie