God's Fingerprint...

My husband and I have been expecting a sweet baby boy since sometime in April.  We have 2 other children and this pregnancy had been the most UNeventful of the 3.  At 34 1/2 weeks pregnant, during a somewhat routine checkup to monitor his growth, we were told that he was growing wonderfully, BUT, there was something else... The specialist informed us that our son had a malformation of his brain. Either a piece was missing all together or it wasn't fully formed, as well as excess fluid, and cyst possibilities.  The prognosis spectrum was anywhere from mild to severe and only time would tell, but regardless there was an area of darkness in his brain that "shouldn't be there."  We had images that supported this and we began our journey of education and preparation.  Along the way we received news ranging from uncertainty to definitive diagnosis, that a piece of his brain was absent. Last week we went for an MRI of our son to clarify to the best of medicine’s ability the truth and most likely outcome for him. 

I should tell you that his name is Elijah Jefferson Mundok. Elijah, taken from a great prophet and Jefferson, one of the Godliest men we know.  Originally, his name represented the profound words of Elijah in choosing faith in God or Baal but NOT the convenient mediocrity in the middle.  It turns out, Elijah was a man surrounded by many miracles, and our baby Eli is no less.

From the time I knew about the part of his brain that was in jeopardy I began to pray that God would leave his mark on Eli.  I prayed that he would literally touch his brain, heal it, and create what only he knew should be there.  I specifically asked that his fingerprint would be evident and there would be no question that he had worked yet another miracle for Elijah.  After our neurosurgeon reviewed just under 600 pictures of Baby Eli’s brain, we were told ALL pieces of his brain were present and he did NOT have a malformation!  You can call it a “misdiagnosis”, an “overzealous doctor”, or a “glitch” in the medical equipment but I call it God’s fingerprint on Elijah Jefferson Mundok and I am blessed to have witnessed such a miracle.  He does have some excess fluid at the base of his brain, which we felt was likely and the best case scenario,  but NOTHING that would require surgery as of now and nothing that should keep us from having our baby boy at home with us in only a few short weeks to come…