Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

Things are finally getting settled.  Isaiah's recovery has been awesome.  We're almost back to a fully normal schedule.  He went to school all of last week and thankfully, due to all the rain, he didn't even notice he couldn't do Gym or go out for recess.  He's still not supposed to run or jump much until Friday which is the official 4 week mark from the surgery, but it's hard to keep this kiddo down when he's feeling good.  This week we'll ramp back up his Occupational and Speech therapies and we've already restarted ABA therapy.   We've also been back to church now for the second week which has been wonderful.   We just want to thank everyone at Passion City Church so very much for all of their thoughts and prayers this last month.  It's just such so amazing that Isaiah and us, in part, have been lifted up so much in prayer.  It's been so evident to us this go around of surgery how much it helps to have a church community that we cal...

 I lifted this from Rachel's Facebook, but thought those of you that follow us here would like to know as well.     "Thank you to all my prayer warriors who have been praying about our insurance stuff for Isaiah's surgery. I got word today that all our providers have successfully set up agreements with our insurance company to have their services paid as 'in network' for the surgery. Yay! Now we just have to make it through the next week"  While it doesn't mean everything is covered 100% it is a great relief to us that things will go through at the in network rate or minimally at a lower pre-negotiated rate than us being stuck with the high out of network rates. We appreciate everyone's prayers and know everyone will be praying for Isaiah on the 15th and during his recovery.  We have also been asking people to lift up the surgical team of doctors and nurses that will be caring for Isaiah at Medical City Hospital in Dallas.  Especially Dr....

Tonight we had a visitor local to the Dallas area that has been following along with Isaiah's journey via the blog. We just wanted to mention a quick word of thanks to June and Mike Graham for the wonderful basket of Great Harvest bread and goodies and more importantly for their thoughts and prayers around Isaiah's surgery and healing. June stopped by the hospital tonight and we were very happy to have met her. She is, from what I understand, the mother in law of one of Rachel's father's employees at the Opera, Eric Mitchko. We're just constantly amazed at the number of people around the world thinking of us and praying for us. Just off the top of my head we know of people across the US, Canada, England, and even New Zealand. We are really in awe of the awesome power of prayer and how lucky we truly have been throughout this whole process.

So Rachel and Isaiah ran into someone in the parking lot outside of the Carter's store by Perimeter Mall a couple months back who was inspired by Isaiah and his journey and happens to be a hair stylist, so she offered to give Rachel a free haircut, foils and all. Well yesterday Rachel finally took her up on the offer and has a nice new short hairdo as you can see from the picture above. It's the shortest I've seen Rachel's hair since we started dating over 6 years ago, though I think it may have been this short when we first met freshman year of college. Its super cute and she absolutely loves it so we thought we'd plug the stylist who gave her the cut as a form of thanks. Her name is Deborah Bibb and she works out of the BlowOut Salon in the Vinings Jubilee Shopping Center on Paces Ferry Rd for those of you in the ATL area. She did such an awesome job we thought we'd try to send some some business her way! Thank you Deborah!