Best Lung Report Yet!

Yesterday Grant saw Dr.Doshi, his pulmonologist. I hesitantly asked right off the bat, "How do his chest x-rays look?" He got a big grin on his face and said, "Great!" He gave me a copy of the report to look at and I saw the words for the first time ever, "lungs are clear." Wow! This is medically unheard of. Only God could heal Grant's lungs like this. It was supposed to take years before they were clear.

Our next question was, "does this mean we can take him out all winter and do things like put him in the church nursery etc.?" Unfortunately, the answer was no. Apparently Grant had two things wrong with his lungs and only the one is fixed. (I know this sounds vague, but I don't really know how to explain it.) Grant will still need to have shots every 28 days throughout the winter to protect his lungs in case he gets a cold. But, Dr.Doshi said that we could take Grant out on "controlled" play dates with friends who promise me that their child is healthy. :) It is just group settings where people might not know Grant's situation and might bring a kid with a runny nose that could be dangerous for Grant that we have to avoid.

So, overall, we still have to be careful this winter. But, we don't need to be as extreme as last winter. The best news of all is that Dr.Doshi predicts that by next spring/summer we can TOTALLY treat Grant like a normal kid in terms of where we take him. He said that Grant should be old enough and strong enough by then to be able to fight off colds with no problem.