PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

         So after waiting to no end and finding a bit of courage this morning, I decided to call the specialist's office and ask if the Amnio results were back yet... Turns out they had been back for a few days, no one bothered to inform me of the results, which were by the way NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Praise God, Praise God!!!

       After hearing and then re-asking the question "So, no Chromosomal abnormalities appeared??" and getting a second "normal" answer, I hung up the phone and collapsed... in joy, fear, anxiety, stress, exhaustion... the release of a great deal of what Matt and I had been silently holding our breath for.

        I know it is not over yet, but we are half way there at this point.  The specific malformation that we were given the original day of diagnosis is highly found in conjunction with other, sometimes life-threatening, chromosomal abnormalities.  You can understand then, the hope that we were given with such a simple word... "Normal."  Which, by the way, I have been doing some serious inquiry into what "normal" is anyway... In a time to come I will explain my questions.

         For now, we are headed full speed with our neurosurgeon who offered a few other possibilities as to the dilated ventricle and excess fluid. We trust him and his judgement and are looking forward to knowing, as much as possible, what is going on in little Eli's brain, and what, if anything, he will need when he gets here.

       I cannot form words more profound then Thank You... and yet they seem so over used or insufficient in this context... But it is all I have to offer, our Thanks to You... Each of you, for your interest, your thoughts, your love, your kindness, and especially for your prayers. Our hearts have been touched, but Eli's life has been changed...

Some scrap wood we are going to use for a small project has been laying in our yard for a small time now... Just recently we stopped to pay close attention to it... He is here, He is working, we are changing...