We realized another victory of healing today. Caden had an appointment at the Storm Eye Institute at MUSC. You may remember that he went there last year for a check up and was found to need glasses due to being diagnosed as far sited. Below is a clip from the 12/20/2005 post.
“…the eye doctor says Caden needs glasses, but agreed to wait a few weeks to retest Caden’s eyes to give the diagnosed problem a chance to correct itself. I don’t remember the diagnosis, but it CAN correct itself with children Caden’s age. Please pray for this healing.”
Praise God for another answered prayer. They never called us and we never called them. We had plenty of things to take care of so we handed this one over to the Lord.
We pray and ask you to continue to pray for our discernment with these issues. I believe this for what it is. This is God’s power shining through again because we asked him to heal Caden. Even more amazing to the doctors at MUSC today is the healing of Caden’s left eye. You may remember me writing a very vague statement about this after the pacemaker was placed back in June. Here is what I wrote:
“We are praying that Caden will be comfortable and that both of his eyes will stand wide open. There is no value in stating the obvious and there are no known medical treatments according to the doctors. Medical studies show that symtoms often get better with time. I do not plan to give any other great details about this prayer request for Caden’s eye as I believe we should speak life over things in Jesus’ name.”June Post
You can click the images below for a larger view. The one on the left was taken in June just after the surgery. The one on the right was taken two months later. The eye doctor today said that Caden’s eye shows very little sign of ever being affected by the heart surgery.
The heart surgeon told us that the Horner’s Syndrome, that is the official name for the symptoms seen in the left picture, was most likely caused by some trauma to a nerve in the upper chest and neck area during the dividing of the left subclavian artery. The symptoms leading to this diagnosis included a squinted eye, a pupil that did not fully function, and the lack of ability to sweat on that side of the head. It is basically a partial paralysis on the affected side of the face and head. The doctors gave us no real insight as to if or when this might heal.
Often patients are given cocaine to treat this Horner Syndrome. Not a single drug was administered to Caden for this and not a single treatment was given. Praise God!!!
Pacemaker Update
There have been no change in plans. We expect to go in on Wednesday (10/4) for a full pacemaker check and pre-op work up. Caden is on the surgery schedule for Thursday for pacemaker and lead troubleshooting and repair.
Our most immediate prayer need is that the pacemaker test passes so that we can cancel the surgery date.
The October Daily Bible Reading Schedule is up on my personal blog The Land of Ozz.