Jeremiah Update

Here is what I sent to our church regarding Jeremiah (I'll try to get a good pic soon):

First of all, thank you all so much for your prayers over the past week for Jeremiah. Here's the latest. We watched his arm all last week while we were in College Station. The Dr. had said we should come home if it got infected. To our untrained eyes, it never reached their description of infected. For that we were very thankful. We returned to Irving Sunday and took Jeremiah back to the Dr. Monday morning. Both his regular Dr. and the Dr. who took out the stitches looked at it and were surprised at how good it looks. The top cut is almost completely healed. The two that are close together looked better than they expected. They still think that the piece of skin b/w these will eventually come off, but agree that it's well on its way to healing.

After it heals, they will refer us to a plastic surgeon to look at pulling the two edges together to minimize scarring. Our understanding is that this procedure would be "optional," but at this point, probably something we would do. This is much better than what we expected.

I've had several thought processes as we've gone through this. The most telling happened late one night while I was praying over him asking God to heal his arm. What I wanted was for God to make his arm whole again, but deep down inside I did not believe that when he woke up in the morning it would be any different. I want to believe that God would do that, and I believe it when I ask for healing for others, but for some reason I struggled with believing He would do that for us. I just kept thinking about the father who said, "I believe. Help my unbelief."