Road to Recovery

We are in the home stretch, I pray. Christopher started back to school today... he was very nervous! The doctor gave him a note to sit out for athletics - which is good because his ankles were bothering him this morning. He called a few minutes ago to tell me he was headed home and he mentioned his knew was hurting :/ I'm sure it's just because he has been resting so much - it will take his body a bit to get back into the swing of things.

The doctor called this morning and confirmed that his bone scan was normal! YAY!! Here are a couple of pictures of him before/during the scan (sorry for the blurriness!) He is under the sheet on the elevated bed that is moving into the circle.




He did great with the whole procedure! I am so proud of him! I don't think I have ever prayed as hard as I did during that scan. I wanted to be on my knees... but I didn't want to freak out the technicians in the room! LOL OR Chris! He had no idea what they were looking for - I didn't want to scare him. After they told us it looked good I couldn't stop crying. I guess holding in the worry for so long and the relief of knowing they didn't see anything... it just released into tears. Chris was a little confused why I was crying so I finally told him that they were looking for cancer (among other things) and I had been so worried. He then understood my emotion! We had a good day together... killing time while he was radioactive gave us time to hang out! :)

The doctor explained to me this morning that the strep didn't infect/attack/settle in his joints (which is what I originally thought) but that his body was reacting to the strep... and in a way it was attacking itself in the joints. When the strep is gone the body should repair itself and stop attacking itself. We will stop the anti-inflammatories in a couple of days to see how he is doing. If the pain goes away and stays away we don't even need to follow up with the rheumatologist! Please continue to pray for him as he recovers!

Last night before dinner Chris said the prayer... He thanked God for the clear scan and the road to recovery. I know that in a few days/weeks we will be thanking Him for complete healing!