Health Insurance and Answered Prayers.

It's amazing.  Amazing to me, that no matter how many times the Lord proves Himself faithful, no matter how many times He shows up at the perfect time.  Still I struggle.  I struggle to trust, I question, I worry.

Just last night, Conor and I prayed together and asked the Lord to help us trust His plan as we wait on Him, especially as it relates to our health insurance.  We have health insurance, so I realize that makes us very fortunate, as Conor is working two part-time jobs (both of which he loves and it is very evident that this is where the Lord has him right now).  However, we're paying for our own health insurance out of pocket.  I'm sure you can imagine, it's very expensive when you have two family members with a degenerative disease.  Like almost a mortgage payment expensive.

We're grateful to have it, but it's certainly not ideal and hopefully not a long-term plan.

Today a letter arrived.  Conor has to get his health insurance separately from the rest of us and as a rule it's double an average premium for someone his age.  Well, the letter explained they are going to offer a subsidy which will reduce our premium for Conor's insurance by up to 50%.

The very next day.  Should I be surprised?  Obviously, our health costs will still be expensive even with Conor's premium cut in half, but I feel like it was the Lord's little way of saying
"I've got this.  Relax.  I'm taking care of you in little and big ways.  Just keep trusting Me.  I'm worthy of your trust."

My manna for the day.

He is so good to us.  So so good.

Memorial Day

After a month filled with surgeries and doctors appointments.

We feel so blessed and thankful.

For eyes that see and are healing.
















that we're DONE with eye drops!

 For family that lives close by to help

For moments to just be together

For watermelon.

Surgery Updates:
Kyler is doing great!  Stitches are out and his incisions are healing nicely.  He was able to come off eyedrops completely for now and we go back in a month to make sure his pressures are stable off meds.  Praising God for a break from those meds we've been doing twice a day since he was 4 months old.

Conor's eye is healing well from the micro-shunt they put in.  We're praising the Lord the doctor was able to get it in at all so the fact that it's doing so well is huge!  The pressure in his eye is way too low still(it's at a 2), which is just a side effect of the new shunt and it should level out  BUT until it does, he's not allowed to bend over or lean forward at all or lift anything over 10 pounds...which means no lifting kids.  Ha! Also low pressure makes your vision pretty blurry so he's not able to drive (obviously) until it clears.  He's taking it easy and since he can't work on the pools right now, we're enjoying having him around an extra 30 hours a week or so. 

We're also taking a trip to Houston once a week for his follow-ups right now and we're SO glad to have Nana & Papa and Gram & Pappy around to love on the kids while we're out of town.


Specifically, if you could pray his pressure safely increases over the next week or so.  We'd like to see it be at least a 6 by next Friday!  And if you could pray for extra stamina and discipline for me over the next couple weeks, I'd sure appreciate it.


Thankful we're not walking this road alone!