Following the Spirit

This has been quite a difficult week for me. My kids were sick last week. Princess showed all the signs of teething, and a possible ear infection, then Starboy came down with a fever, chills, unable to sleep. He stayed home from school on Thursday, and Friday. The fever went away by then, but his joints seemed to be getting stiffer and stiffer. He kept crying about not being able to run, or even walk up the stairs without the rail. He complained of his hands and feet tingling so he couldn't sleep, and by Sunday, he couldn't even put his own socks on.

I thought this is they craziest flu bug I have ever seen. Monday when I watched him walk he looked like an 80 yr old man with arthritis. He couldn't get in the car, or bend down to pick things up. We were in the backyard and he was trying to get on the trampoline and of course couldn't when a voice in my head said "He has Lyme's disease" I looked at him and thought, that's a weird idea, but then I decided to probe a bit.

We have a bunch of deer that live in our neighborhood. They are often in our backyard and next behind our house in what we call the "wilderness" I often tell Starboy to not play back there because I am fearful of ticks. So i asked him if he had been down there recently. He informed me that him and the neighbor boy had gone down there to retrieve a ball about 3 weeks earlier. He also showed me a small bumpy rash he had on his neck.

At this point I came in and googled "Lyme's Disease" He had every symptom listed. I immediately tried to get a hold of someone from the Dr. office I used to work for. It was Labor day, so I was worried about not finding someone, Luckily my dear friend was home and was able to meet us at the Clinic to test and see if my assumption was correct.

Starboy tested positive for Lyme's disease. We are now treating it and we will hopefully be able to completely reverse the effects. Treatment will last for a couple months. It has been so hard to watch my rambunctious, vivacious son become so crippled by this. He is being a very good sport about everything. Now that we know what it is and have an action plan he is much less emotional.

Before we knew he would just cry and say "Am I ever going to be able to run again?" "Why am I so weak" It has been 3 days. He is sleeping better and able to actually sleep in his bed. (Sunday night he had moved to the floor because his back hurt too bad to sleep in his bed. ) He is still very slow going up stairs and getting in and out of the car, but he did put his own socks on for school today.

Please keep us in your prayers. I am so grateful that I was prompted to know what was going on with him. I would have never come up with that diagnosis without God's help.