Thank you all so much for your prayers for Zachariah. We were honestly touched by hearing from so many of the care and concern for him and our family. As you can imagine, we weren't prepared for how those weeks unfolded. From the initial start of the illness we were always told "oh he will be able to go on as normal". It became very clear that he was NOT able to go on as normal.
We were thankful to be in the very fortunate position of having a specialized children's hospital very close to our home.
All that to say that after a few hospital stays and way too many Dr's visits we are now at the point where we will only see one specialist every 3 months (for his Kidneys) and the other every 6 months (for his liver).
We have also been assured that for the kidneys there will be no longer term affects due to this illness.
As for the liver we need to continue to pray that there are no changes in the growth they found. The Dr we spoke with believes it is an internal vascular birthmark and nothing to worry about. Over the next year or so as they measure and test the growth we will know if he is correct or not.
The interesting thing about HSP is that it can continue to reoccur until the child is about 12. It doesn't always, they just know that in some cases it does.
So, although we are very thankful that Zachariah is MUCH better we do ask you to continue to pray for him.
How to specifically pray:
Kidneys: That the appointments continue to go well and his kidneys heal completely.
Liver: That the growth found is just an internal vascular birth mark that neither grows or is something we need to be worried about.
HSP: We are praying that the HSP infection continues to be under control and that we will NOT be dealing with reoccurrence of this as time goes on.
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