life. and everything in between

Since Addison's birth it has been a roller coaster ride for us in regards to her health. But I knew that we had a fighter on our hands. While I was in labor the doctors were surprise that her heart rate never dropped in the long labor. They were even more surprised that her heart rate didn't drop or increase after they saw the bruising that she had due to the long labor. In late August Addison was diagnosed with congenital atresia of the intrahepatic portal venous system with portal hypertension . If you are like me you probably would have just stared at the doctor like he was crazy   insane   mental   unbalanced  kooky!  Basically it means that she is missing veins in her liver (I included a link at the bottom if you are interested in learning more about it).  Her body created  (God created) a natural shunt for the blood to flow in and out of. Many children with this disease have to have a shunt put in but not Addison. Because her liver isn't worki...

"Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10 Here   I am, in what I have titled as my season of stillness.   I was accepted into Eastern Washington's Mental Health Counseling program late 2016 or early 2017, I can't remember. Through that whole process I felt that something was off. That I shouldn't be going down this road. But it was apart of MY PLAN. For heaven's sake, I said, I was going to do this and so I would do it. You see I have a problem when things in my plan change. It got to the point that I could not ignore this feeling any longer. I was sitting in a lecture that I had began to mentally blow off because I already had a plan and this guess speaker had nothing to offer me. Boy, I have never been so wrong. He was discussing a Master's degree in Social Work vs Mental Health. The jobs that I could get in Social work sounded more like what I wanted to do! PLUS, Boise State has a program that has a satellite campus that is literally 10 ...