The Sudbrock Scoop

Still thankful for Today!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and for those who are celebrating this weekend, I hope it is a special day to remember.

We just finished cleaning up from our dinner. We were able to host a family with 5 children and a single mother and her daughter. Two friends came over and helped me prepare this morning and all went really well. We had such a good time. One of our guests is an Emergency Doctor and was on call, so he was here with his ambulance driver. That was a new experience. They missed the opening prayer and had to leave before dessert, but we are so glad that they were able to enjoy part of the evening. We didn't figure out how to tape the parade, but we did watch clips of it on YouTube. All in all the day ended so well and we have so much to be thankful for.

Our day didn't start out so well though. When I went in to wake Skyler up this morning, he said he couldn't come down out of his bed because he couldn't move his leg. He has been having "growing pains" lately and I just thought he was exaggerating, so I told him to come on down and stop stalling. He did come down, but was soon in tears, so I got Paul to take a look at it. He tried stretching it out and massaging it, but he still couldn't get his hip movement up to 90°, so he started to get concerned. It was 6 am and we considered the emergency room, but decided to wait until 7 when the pediatrician would be in.

Back in July, Skyler was bit by a tick and a week later spent some time in the hospital under suspicion of meningitis. So, the doctor took blood to check for Lyme's disease. We will have the results back from that on Monday. She then sent Skyler to an orthopedic surgeon. He took Xrays which showed extreme inflammation appearing to be a type of arthritis. He then scheduled an MRI for the 8th. The doctors that were here for dinner suggested we also have Skyler checked for an illness called (morbus Perthes) Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome.

The good news is Skyler is thrilled to be excused from Sport for a while.

It was just yesterday that I was sharing with you how thankful we are to all be so healthy this year. Well, . . . we are still thankful to God for today.

We would really appreciate your prayers for Skyler's health and for wisdom on our parts.

Thanks so much!

Chelli