Medical Results

See … I knew it would be this … or, well, I had a pretty good feeling it would …

Diagnosis? FUO. Fever of unknown origin.

Hooray for a contrast CT that is healthy and normal! I’m sure a lot of people would love to be able to say those words.

But off to Europe go I with a seven year-old and a fever of 101+. Hmmmmm. I wonder what lesson I am going to be learning as this drags on? And just how will God use this to draw me closer to Him? I don’t understand the means but I trust in the end.

So THANKS for all of the prayers! Just wanted to update you all as soon as I heard anything. The only remaining medical tests are the needed-a-double-poke-in-both-arms blood cultures that will take a few days to return. So I’ll probably be en France before those come back.

I’m grateful for (relative) health! And also grateful that I was able to work through my EXTREME temptation to panic throughout the whole morning (grace grace grace) and am now hard at work on my speaker notes for the fear retreat. At least I’ll get an hour of this babysitter’d day in for real work …

(Right now I’m going back over all of the Scriptures in John Piper’s chapter “Battling Anxiety” in his wonderful little book, Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure. Great stuff in here! And did you see the retweet from CCEF of the David Powlison quote? “If what you most value can be taken away or destroyed, then you set yourself up for anxiety.” Yowza! Spot on.)

Hope your day is going well and didn’t require drinking 16 oz of metalic barium sulfate sort-of-liquid—

Gratefully,
Tara B.