Creatinine...

We wanted to ask for your prayers this weekend. We know how many of you faithfully lift us up and we want you all to know how thankful we are.

After Cason's routine clinic visit at Egleston on Thursday our nurse called to tell us that his Creatinine level is up. This is the most crucial value that shows how well the kidney is functioning, so we keep a close eye on it. This high number could be due to anything from an infection (he has an ear infection right now) to dehydration to medication toxicity to rejection of the kidney.

Obviously our prayer is that we can treat Cason's ear infection and give him some extra fluids to bring his creatinine down and that we aren't dealing with something more serious. We will repeat bloodwork on Monday and, if this number is still high, we will have to do a biopsy of his new kidney to try and determine the health of the organ. Please pray that the number is nice and low on Monday. We are trying our best not to worry since we don't really even know what we're dealing with, but any time that this number rises it is a bit unnerving. We'll let you know how it goes...

Also, Tricia is scheduled to go back to the orthopedist on Tuesday to follow up after her cortisone injection. Her knee is still swelling despite cutting way back on her activity level, so I'm afraid that the next step will likely be another surgery to repair the leak in her joint capsule. We're obviously not too excited about that possibility but, again, we'll just have to worry about it once we know what our options are.

Thanks for praying!