DAN GOULD

FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Tag: Prayer

  • Prayer for Jackson and Us – Update

    Thanks for your prayers!

    Jackson was a trouper last night.  The ladies that work there said they got one of the best reads they ever have on an child his age.  I guess that is good news.  The bad news is we won’t know the results for 72 hours.  That means one of us has to be awake to monitor his sleeping.  Our pediatrician thinks it could be a form of acid reflux, something I don’t think our ENT doctor mentioned.  However, he mentioned it could be something neurological, which if you know our story, Jackson has a neurologist and is already on meds for Myoclonic Seizures to which he is supposes to grow out of by age four or five.

    It has been a stressful month with 3 hospital visits with Jackson including 2, 2 night stays and 1 ER visit for about 4 hours.  I can’t express how much your prayers mean to us.  We are humbled by your kind words and so appreciative of you interceding to the Father on our behalf!  With that we will always be grateful!

    Here is how you can pray specifically:

    – Pray for HEALING

    – Pray that God would be in Control

    – Pray that the doctors have wisdom in what is going on and how to treat it

    – Pray that Josiah still gets attention and isn’t affected negatively by whats going on with Jackson

    – Pray that God would be our provider spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially

    – Pray that God would multiply our sleep, comfort our fears, and give us supernatural peace and rest

  • Prayer for Jackson and Us

    Tonight, Jackson will go to a sleep study to see why he stops breathing and why he snores/wheezes tosses and turns.  Yesterday the Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist said that Jackson’s Adenoids and Tonsils weren’t extremely large and so now we are taking the next step and praying that the sleep study will get a good read and be able to determine the problem and cause.

    Please pray for our sanity.  Stephanie and I both seem to be emotionally, and physically drained.  It’s hard enough dealing with the seizures and now with all of this I feel we have hit our limit.  I don’t think I have felt so helpless before.  I want to fix it but can’t.  I have been praying this verse since last night.  It was the theme verse for our small groups talking about coping and how we do that when stressful things happen.

    “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 4:4-7 (NIV)

  • Our Early Time

    This morning as we were getting ready Josiah said something that really caught me off guard but encouraged me also.  As he was in the shower he said, “Dad, we haven’t had our early time yet.”  I had to ask him what our early time was and this is what he said.  You know that time you get up early to talk with God.  WOW!

    A couple of weeks ago Josiah got up a little after I had and came out in the living room to ask what I was doing.  I told him that I get up early to read my Bible and talk with God.  I had no idea that it totally registered with him, but after today I understand that it has.

    Here is the lesson for me . . . He is watching everything that I do!  I know I have a lot of bad traits and habits that unfortunately Josiah and Jackson will probably pick up.  However, what I model for them is impacting them in real ways.  Nothing humbles me and yet excites me more than what Josiah shared with me today.  It almost like I was being held accountable by a 4 year old.  But he is watching, and as he grows, he will remember that his dad would get up early to spend time with God, and hopefully he will do the same thing because I modeled that for him.

    This song captures what I am feeling right now!

  • Back from Cali and the crazies begin

    Stephanie and I had a great time in California attending The Gathering at Saddleback Church.  It was a much needed break!  However, when we returned it didn’t take Jackson long to give us another scare.

    When Jackson sleeps he sleeps hard, but he sounds like he is snoring but we are learning that it is probably more of a wheeze.  On Sunday Night, he decided to stop breathing while he was sleeping.  Stephanie and I are already on edge at night because of his history, so we called the doctor, and the nurse asked how long he would go without breathing, I told her that I put my hand on him and he started breathing again.  The nurse said that it could be a form of sleep apnea and we should take him to the hospital.  So, we wake up Jackson, load up Josiah and start driving to the Children’s Hospital that we got to visit just 2 weeks ago.  Of coarse at this time Jackson is awake and seems to be his normal energetic self.  The ER Doctors were great, and said that by what they are seeing there is no reason for them to keep him; but if we would feel better they could monitor him through the night.  So we asked to stay since we have already met our deductible and just paid the $100.00 co-pay to address a problem that is unseen when he was a wake.

    So, Sunday Night Stephanie and Jackson stayed the night in the Hospital and Joe and I came home.  Jackson didn’t sleep much Sunday night so they were not able to observe him like we had hoped for.  He did fall asleep for a little nap in the morning and the nurses were able to hear him sleep.  At least they were able to hear what we hear and understand why we were there.  Later that afternoon Jackson fell asleep for a longer period of time and again stopped breathing a couple of times and the nurses were able to witness it this time first hand.  The monitors that were hooked up to him showed that he stopped breathing for about 7 seconds a time.  That’s good news but still not normal.  After they saw this, they did a throat and nose x-ray to see if there was any blockage and called an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist.  We have an appointment tomorrow with the same doctor that clipped Jackson’s tongue when he was newborn.  The doctor says that it could be his tonsils or adenoids.  His tonsils are to much bigger than they are supposed to be but she couldn’t see his adenoids.  So needless to say we are home.  We know a little bit more than we did on Sunday, but we still have a son that stops breathing when he is sleeping.  Please continue to pray for him and our Family.

  • A Showing!!!

    Tomorrow (Friday) our house is being shown for the first time!  If you have time to say a prayer we would appreciate it.

  • Prayer for Jackson – Day 3

    We are HOME!!!!  Jackson is almost back to himself!  He is still congested! The respiratory nurse said it wasn’t in his chest anymore but sound to be in his upper respiratory.  He tends to run a slight fever so we will be watching that like a hawk and continue to give him Motrin.

    Thanks again for all the prayers, visits, comments from posts, phone calls, e-mails, and txts.  We are so blessed to have friends and family that care so deeply for us!

  • Prayer for Jackson – Day 2 update

    Well Jackson is doing better.  He had a breathing treatment this morning and starts another round of antibiotics this afternoon.  If everything keeps going as planned we should be going home tomorrow.

    This morning things got real exciting when a special visitor made an appearance!  I believe this was a turning point in Jackson’s recovery because he seems to be doing much better after Spider-man came for a visit!

  • Prayer for Jackson – Day 2

    We survived a long night!  Jackson ran a fever all night even with Motrin and Tylenol offset every 4 hours.  He is starting to sound congested. Every time they try to get blood from him he turns into a pin cushion.  He and Stephanie both have small veins. The poor guy has been pocked to many times to count!  He is sleeping really good right now!

    The doctor just came in and said his infection had gotten worse so they are going to give him more antibiotics today with a steroid and probably a breathing treatment.  Sounds like it could be another long 24 hours. Our visit here has gotten longer than we expected.  They will re-evaluate everything tomorrow morning to see how today’s treatments do in the battle of the infection.

    Stephanie went to the doctor this morning for her congestion/head cold just to make sure that’s what it is.  Josiah stayed with Nana who made the drive from MO yesterday.   I am going on about 6 hours of sleep over the last 48 hours.  I catch an hour or two when Jackson is sleeping.

    I can’t express our gratitude to our friends and family.  Your prayers are special to us and comforting knowing that we aren’t alone in the journey!  Please continue to pray for healing, strength, and wisdom for the doctors.

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  • We have a room . . .and a Soccer Star

    Thanks for all the calls, visits, email, and post!  It is so nice to know that we have friends that care so deeply for us.  Today has been long.  We didn’t get an actual room until 5:30pm.  This afternoon was ruff.  I don’t think Jackson got the care he needed.  I won’t go into detail but it was bad!  Once we got into the new room the whole experience changed!!!  Praise Jesus!  We had better care, and Jackson’s fever finally broke, like it had before we got put in the ER holding room!  He is sleeping now.  Please continue to pray for him and us.  The night time always seems to bring the worst out in him.

    On the other hand.  Today was Josiah’s first soccer practice (second team practice).  He did so awesome, and we could have a soccer star on our hands!!!  Yeah I know what you thinking, every dad says that about their son!  Maybe your right, but he is really good!

    Afterward we went to Taco Bell just the two of us.  It was a nice way to be with Joe.  He has seen so much this last year with his brother, and i didn’t want what happened today to ruin the excitement he has had all week to go to soccer practice.  After-all he already had to miss Saturdays practice due to Croup.

    Here are some pics of Josiah from this evening!!!

  • Prayer for Jackson

    Well we are at the Hospital!  Jackson was having trouble breathing last night, well early this morning.  When we got him to the hospital the real scare happened.  Jackson is on anti seizure medicine, and has had several test to find out why he was twitching earlier this past year, but luckily, until early this morning, Stephanie and I had never seen him actually have a seizure.   I am just glad it happened here at the hospital because it would have really freaked us out if that happened in our home.

    The hospital has admitted him because he has the onset of pneumonia.  We are in a holding room at the ER at Presbyterian Allen until another room becomes available.  This hospital is a place we know all to well!

    Right now he is sleeping, Stephanie and Josiah ran home to shower and bring stuff back for the day.  As for me . . . trying to be strong, praying a lot, and wishing Jackson was perfectly healthy.  I am so tired of the stress that this adds and just want it to be done!

    Please pray for Jackson and our Family!