Miracles still happen...

Our family had a rough 2008 with Jonas being so sick. It all started in April of 2005 with his diabetic doctor finding a low white blood count and continued through 2008 with a trip to the Mayo Hospital in Arizona. He was diagnosed with autoimmune neutropenia which he takes shots for three times a week to keep his white blood count up. He was then diagnosed with mycobacterium kanasaii, which is a rare type of lung infection. He spends one and a half hours every night doing his IV antibiotics. He was also diagnosed with CVID, which is common variable immunodeficiency.  He receives an infusion of IVIg once a month to keep his antibodies up. He also has pancreatic deficiency and takes enzyme pills daily to help control that. He is also a type 1 diabetic and manages his diabetic pump daily. Whew!

Can you imagine having to deal with so many illnesses and not knowing what the doctors are going to tell you next? His CVID doctor recently told us Jonas had come very close to his end. When he saw Jonas in May of 2008 he didn't know how he was going to be able to help Jonas and it really scared him. But our amazing dad and husband pulled through and we couldn't be more proud of him! He went through some pretty dark times over the last year, but he is doing so good now and we are so grateful for him and his willingness to keep moving forward. He faithfully does his antibiotics every night, even when he gets home from work at 1:00 am! I would probably just skip them for the night and go to bed. But he is so determined to get completely better and he isn't going to risk anything to have a set back.

We are so lucky to have Jonas in our lives. He works so hard for our family and is an amazing father to our boys. It is so much fun to have a healthy dad in our home again! Our prayers and the prayers of our family and friends were answered when Jonas started to get better. Miracles do happen!