A Has Been...

Yesterday's post is now officially marked a 'has been'. I had been worried sick with a lump in my throat for 24 hours. I am officially singing a new song...to the tune of 'God is great, and Trey is healthy!'. I know the phrase, 'If you worry, don't pray...and if you pray, don't worry." I get that...but I don't think my mind is physically capable of that. I guess I can thank the devil for that, because my mind has gone where it never should have gone since yesterday.

Since the doctor's update won't fit in my 140 characters on Facebook, I thought I'd put it here. Dr. Staton with Cy Fair ENT, might just be my new favorite person. He had us laughing and relaxed before we even got called back. He happened to be sitting at the front desk when we walked in. No Dr. coat, or anything...I wasn't even sure who it was. However, his first words were, "HOLY COW, you are a giant 3 year old. Look at that guy, he's bigger than my 6 year old daughter!" I laughed. We got the appointment today by agreeing to be 'worked in'. I was expecting a LONG wait. 5 minutes later we were in a room with Dr. Staton. Trey was trying to tackle him, he had Trey bent over his knee tickling him...not your general first meeting with a doctor. Just the way I like it. Trey's good like that. Moving on...He felt Trey's lymph nodes, he looked in his throat, and then it came. "This is it? I expected something MUCH larger." In a nutshell, Trey doesn't even really have an infected throat, nor does he have abnormal size lymph nodes. He felt like Trey's nodes were within the normal range, and nice and squishy, and not out of place. I asked him if he thought we should do an ultrasound/blood work to make sure, and he reassured me that he wouldn't even do that if it was his child. I feel like 2 tons has been lifted off of my chest. Praise God. How silly do I feel, that I could worry like that? I can't fault Dr. Parikh, because he was legitimately concerned for Trey. I wouldn't want it any other way. I saw the concern in his face, and that is when my alarm went off. Dr. Staton trusts Parikh too {Parikh happens to be his Dr. too!}, but as Staton said it's his job to know the neck, and Trey's neck feels just fine.

I feel so blessed to have friends {some that I know well, some I don't} that surrounded us in prayer yesterday and today. Thank you. I can't tell you how much it means to Joe and me. When we got in the car after the appointment, we both kind of looked at each other and Joe said he felt silly for even preparing for the worst. I felt the same. We were reassured today that God is great, and Trey is healthy!

And just for good measure...a picture from Miss Sheila. Love her.