{"id":1617,"date":"2011-04-21T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2011-04-22T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T22:24:57","slug":"samuel-update-another-amazing-god-moment-in-the-life-of-our-littel-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Samuel update: Another amazing God moment in the life of our little boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update: I just added the above photo (taken from waaaaaaaaaay across the room with my zoom lens!).\u00a0 Samuel really liked dying his hands<\/del> Easter eggs this morning.\u00a0 If you look closely, you can even see a touch of green on his chin from a seriptitous lick of an especially green egg.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Trust me when I say that I am loosening way up from when James was teeny.\u00a0 hehe<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to start off by saying that I’ve really appreciated the e-mails asking about us and checking in.\u00a0 Thank you all!\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are doing really well.\u00a0 Just returned home from a first visit to Stephen’s parents.\u00a0 Samuel warmed up to them right away and I can see the beginnings of a great relationship with his new found grandparents (Fruit Loops are his new favourite breakfast.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, we have had sketchy Internet since returning from China, hardware problems, software problems and even a grinding noise in my new camera lens and corrupted SD cards.\u00a0 So no photos.\u00a0\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 Just received good news on Samuel’s medical front.<\/p>\n

We had the chance to see Samuel’s orthopaedic surgeon at our Children’s Hospital.\u00a0 He had a very comprehensive series of x rays done of his spine, profile, pelvis, hip joints, various angles of his legs.\u00a0\u00a0 We were delighted to hear and see so much more than we had before.\u00a0 It really explained his movements\u00a0 in a very clear way.<\/p>\n

As the radiologist and his team were taking the x rays, Steve was in the booth with them while I held Samuel’s hand and helped him stay focused on not moving (he did amazing!).\u00a0 As Stephen would ask a question about what he saw and as the team commented on things I began putting pieces of what they were saying together.\u00a0 Without them spelling things out for us, I knew from my research that what they were describing was not hopeful in the direction of a future with prosthetics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I quietly took a deep breath and we carried on our chatter and adjusting and holding still and beginning again for the next x-ray.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We told the team goodbye and returned to our examination room with Samuel.\u00a0 We didn’t really talk or comment, and then suddenly in walk the surgeon and his team.\u00a0 Quietly they close the\u00a0 door and\u00a0the surgeon\u00a0sits down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then he began to explain the x rays.\u00a0 Fractures, bones that have not fused, floatin bones, nubbin, unattached metatarsal.\u00a0 And I said, “Wait a minute.\u00a0 Fracture?”<\/p>\n

He quickly stopped mid breath and laughed apologetically, explaining that it was not in fact a trauma induced fracture, but just a way of describing an unfused femur bone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nervous laughter on my part.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then as he begins again, it sinks in.\u00a0 He’s describing undislocated hips.\u00a0 He’s describing minor (in the world of the amputee) surgeries to prepare Samuel.\u00a0 He’s explaining that VERY SOON Samuel will begin the life of a bilateral above knee amputee PROSTETHIC WEARER!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh sure, he has a load of work ahead.\u00a0 He’ll have to undergo surgeries and fittings, sores and preventive measures due to his new legs, but he’ll walk.\u00a0\u00a0 He’ll RUN!\u00a0 He may even play soccer and ride a bike!<\/p>\n

The doctor saw what we saw.\u00a0 A little boy wired for movement.\u00a0 A little boy who through the diligence and prayer of his physical therapist, was able to move so well that the doctor was filled with surety at the bright active life Samuel will have.\u00a0\u00a0 And I am not kidding on that one.\u00a0 Had the doctor not seen Samuel move he may not have offered the same hope for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Stephen and I looked at each other and smiled.<\/p>\n

And at that the doctor and his team were openly surprised.<\/p>\n

I am sure time and they are used to giving “bad news”.\u00a0 I mean, we were prepared to hear the exact opposite.\u00a0 the difference?\u00a0 We knew our Samuel would live to greatness even without his new legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, with his legs – oh, nothing will stop that boy unless he allows it to!\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there is more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You will not believe this!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Truly only God!<\/p>\n

The doctor and his team literally paused in surprise at our unusual reaction.\u00a0 And then we began to talk about next steps.\u00a0 Surgeries to begin.\u00a0 Meeting with the prosthetist before surgery, etc.\u00a0 In the process, we let him know that we were from out of town.\u00a0 We told him the name of our town and again, he stopped in mid stream.\u00a0 “You’re from ***********?!”<\/p>\n

“Yes…..?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Turns out that one of his patients also is from our area.\u00a0 He had also been born as a congenital bilateral above knee amputee.\u00a0 And he was fitted at age 3 with prosthetics!\u00a0 And get this?\u00a0 The prosthetist who fitted that child?\u00a0 He works back and forth at the Children’s Hospital and our community!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seriously!\u00a0 Only God!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only God can take a tiny little boy from Yueyang County and bring\u00a0 him to the other side of the world to a family wondering how they were so blessed to be called his family.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because God had already paved the way for his coming.<\/p>\n

Blessed be the name of the Lord!\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is Risen Indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: I just added the above photo (taken from waaaaaaaaaay across the room with my zoom lens!).\u00a0 Samuel really liked dying his hands Easter eggs this morning.\u00a0 If you look closely, you can even see a touch of green on his chin from a seriptitous lick of an especially green egg.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Trust me when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}