Perfect Score!

November 18th marked Garrett's 22nd surgical procedure. Today we got perfect news. Biopsies are scored from 0-5, with 0 being perfect, and Garrett's tissue biopsies scored perfect! All of them!! All the old, bad cells that were there in the last test are gone. Praise God! Garrett's tough little body with God's grace, fought the bandits off again!

Garrett and Jessi both cried hard the night before. There has been barely any sleep and dang little rest for a few days. The anxiety was building exponentially each day. Both kids were scared for what "tomorrow" might bring, so I we just stayed up and watched rodeo each night the past few. That always makes life better.

Garrett had a really tough day yesterday, having 3 attempts at IV's blow up the veins. All the previous surgeries and IV's have scarred his little veins so much that it is hard to get one started now. They ended up giving him intra-muscular sleeping meds and then deadening the site for the cathetor (more needles). He woke up during the biopsy and asked the doctor if he was going to die. I hope and pray he does not remember that

I carried him in like I always do, and then Garrett was on the table for 4 hours. Laying him down is pretty tough, but it's the meeting with the doctors after that has us a little jumpy. Poor Kathy almost starts crying just at the thought. It was that meeting that kicked us in the guts last February. But this time the doctors came out and told us that both sides of the heart looked great, but that we would have to wait for the pathology results from the biopsy to know for sure. Today, there were tears of joy.

We were supposed to hear results by noon today, but by 3:30 we were still waiting and getting a little anxious. About an hour later, we got the news all of us have been praying for...Garrett's biopsies, all of them, scored a "0", being perfect. Both sides of the heart are healthy, strong and he is even growing an extra branch to one of his arteries. (something that normally does not happen)

Tomorrow we take Jessi in for an endoscopy to check on some stomach problems she's been having, but we expect to get good news again. Just another little bump, and then we get to go into the holidays with a clean slate.

We're worn out, but absolutely thankful and blessed tonight. I will pen more later, but wanted to share our tremendous news. Thank you all for your support and prayers. We are so grateful for the continued support and love for my family, and all the prayers we feel. Praise God with us! He gives us the armor to fight our battles, and we wrap ourselves in it every day.

God Bless you all!

JD