Thankful

I always wonder, am I ever thankful for what I do have? I have a wonderful husband, a healthy child, a warm home, clothes, and food.

I've been reading other blogs lately and some of them have either a sick child or they just lost a child. Man do I cry the whole time I read those blogs. I am so very thankful for having a healthy child. I mean, he does get sick but has never been hospitalized for any sickness. He has been in the hospital before but it was because he has a hemangeoma ( strawberry ) on his right eyelid that we couldn't just let him grow out of it. That takes about 7 years. He was about 4 months old when I took him to Walmart to have his pictures taken and I noticed he had a small red mark on his eyelid. Well, in the matter of weeks, the strawberry grew twice the original size. I took him to his pediatrican's office and she sent me to Traverse City to see an Pediatric Opthamologist. He looked at it and said that we need to make an appointment to surgically remove it. Well needless to say, they scheduled us for surgery for November and it was September. A couple weeks past and Eugene and I were always watching Linus' every move cuz if he rubbed it he would open it up and there would be a huge mess to clean up. I think in those 2 months, I washed clothes everyday. It was so bad before his surgery that we just called the doctors office and said that if they couldn't get him in now, that we'd just have to drive down state and have someone down there do it now. They got us in in October. And because he developed a sensitivity to latex, he was the first one in for surgery. It was a very fast surgery and we were on our way home by 9am. Well, Praise the Lord, they found the core of the hemangeoma and they do not expect it to ever come back. Again, Praise the Lord. I guess because everyone at our church was praying for us, I never once was nervous of Linus being in the hands of the surgeon. I had great peace with the procedure. The nurse came in and said that Linus is awake and he wants his mommy. I kinda laughed at her cuz I knew that wasn't his problem. He wanted food. The boy loves his food. I couldn't feed him until we got home. Thankfully, he slept the whole way home. When we got to Grandma's house, I asked him if he wanted a bottle and he squealed and threw his head back and his eyes rolled in the back of his head. What can I say, My son loves to eat.
We took him back to the eye doctor's office this past October for his one year check up and they say he has a stigmatism in his eyes. His eyelid looks great but now we have to take him back there when he turns 3 to see if he needs glasses. He gets the stigmatism from both sides of our family. My mom, Eugene, and his mom. Not sure who else has one in the family but I guess that's not really important.

I'm extremely thankful for everyone prayers for that day. It was very stressful but I knew that from all the prayers, I would be calm for the surgery.

In closing, can you name the things you are thankful for?