Alan's health update

After much waiting Alan was cleared to receive a CPAP machine to help him sleep, which will in turn, hopefully help relieve his migraine headaches. He will go on Friday to pick it up and start using it. whoohoo! Please pray that it is helpful.

After even more waiting and calling, Alan found out the results from a MRI that he has two bulging disks in his upper vertebrae, so now he needs to go back to the neurologist to check on that next week...it might be a relatively easy fix, such as physical therapy or exercises, or surgery :(.

Last but not least, Alan visited an ENT doctor and found out he has a deviated septum and a lowered mouth palate, BUT the doctor is really hopeful that the sleep machine will fix that.

Meanwhile, he continues to have bad headaches and sleepless nights. God's mercies are new everyday and this is something we have learned to not take lightly, but to rejoice in and find strength in Him each day. Only The Lord can sustain us and HE does EACH and EVERY day.


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Update on Alan's sleep study

After waiting for two weeks for his results, we finally found out that Alan does have sleep Apnea. That is an answered prayer that it was confirmed that he does in fact have a sleeping problem. He stops breathing while sleeping, which wakes his body up, leading to never getting into deep REM sleep, therefore waking up in the middle of dreams and remembering all of them...I'm not sure if his nightmares is related to all of this, but it seems likely. So...in a few weeks a crafty mask called a C Pac will arrive and Alan will have to wear it while sleeping. The idea is for it to increase oxygen flow. It sounds like such a simple solution to such a big problem, but we will take it! We are grateful for being able to see a doctor so quickly and relatively easily. Alan is also grateful to not have to sleep in a strange bed with lots of cords all over him. Alan has a neurologist appointment on September 23 as we continue on this journey of healing and hope.
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Dreaming of sleeping well

So for the past year Alan has not slept well. It seems like it would be sort of obvious to know you are not sleeping well, but looking back, it was sort of hard to tell...was it his migraines, his different medications, having kids that seem to constantly up at night for something...wet beds, baby, etc. Nevertheless, he did some research on signs of sleep disorders, and started noticing he had some symptoms of something...nightmares, fatigue, breathing stopping during the night. So last week he had a sleep study and we are anxiously awaiting the results this week. We are hoping if he sleeps better he could have less migraines, but if not, at least he might be able to get some help and not wake up exhausted at the beginning of every day. Sleep is one of those things you don't realize how good it is sometimes until you don't have it. All of our kids are great sleepers so far and I am so thankful no one else in our family struggles with sleep disorders.
Speaking of sleeping, it is my bedtime and I am very thankful to not have any trouble sleeping. Sweet dreams!
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Legoland!

There are some people who,  when you get to see, it feels just like yesterday. Some of our dear friends, who were teammates in East Asia, came through Orlando...crazy...who comes through Orlando? But Danny is from Florida and was going to a high school reunion, so they stayed two nights in Orlando on their way to Ft. Lauderdale.  We took the kids to LEGOLAND (their first park experience here since we arrived) and we all had a great time. With six kids between the two families, veryone had a buddy and we enjoyed every minute.

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Fun with GranC and Papa

We were blessed to have our parents offer to take care of the kids for us, so they divided up the time and first they went to my parents and then they went to Alan'
s parents. Here a few fun pics from their time. We are so thankful for grandparents that love to spend time with our kids. They don't get to see them as often as they would like, but this time they had extra long time with them :) They had fun in Auburn together.

Feeding the fish and other outdoor adventures wioth GranC and Papa this summer

GranC has a beautiful assortment of fish in her pond and the kids love to feed them and watch them. She even named a few fish. They also love to play with Shadow, their golden retriever, whom Laura Cate says is her best friend. Here is a funny line of photos taken of William stealing balls from Shadow, poor doggie didn't know what to do. Not sure which is more amazing, that he was able to get them away from the dog, or that he could carry three tennis balls in his hands!

Laura Cate loves to ride a bike GranC and Papa got for her

Cameron plays tennis with Shadow dog

Gran C and William enjoying time on the swing. I think William looks a lot like her!




brothers just playing around

playing on Papa's Razor

we love it when Aunt Amanda comes to visit!

 

 

Alan's parents church had a watermelon social one Wednesday night and we stopped counting how much watermelon  William and Cameron consumed

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