Lotts of Prayers

Well, my kids and I spent the afternoon at the doctors office. Aidan has been running a fever consistently for 3 weeks. This is not the first time that this has happened. Aidan is a little over 2 1/2 years old, and Dr. Amy looked back and saw that we have been seen 5 times in 2.5 years for fever of unknown origin. Usually they just tell us it is viral and it will go away. But, not this time. This time my doctor is concerned. In 2.5 years Aidan has had 5 trips for these fevers that last several weeks at a time, he has also been seen for poor weight gain and failure to thrive, sweating profusely, and diarrhea for 2.5 years. Well, all those things combined have her worried. She decided to run blood work today. She is checking for cancer mostly. juvenile diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, mono, etc. She said a lot of times cancer will have these different symptoms for awhile and then between ages 2-5 cancer will actually start rearing it's ugly head. She did say that his lymph nodes were not swollen which is positive. A lot of times with cancer in children they will have swollen lymph nodes. So, I thought that was a good thing at least. I have a great pediatrician, so I know she will figure out what the problem is. She said we will find the answer, something is causing these symptoms for the past 2 years. On a happy note, he doesn't act sick. Even with temps as high as 105, he acts like he feels fine. 2 nights ago he did have such a high fever that it caused him to have hallucinations, he thought there were snakes in my bed biting us. He thought that they were attacking him. He actually got out of the bed and tried to get the snakes out of the bed. It definitely freaked us out. But, Dr. Amy said that can happen with high temperatures. Anyway, just pray for Aidan. Pray that we find an answer to these symptoms, and that Aidan gets some relief.