Back to the Doctor

Well we headed back to the doctor yesterday. Elliot still has a sinus infection. Now we knew the surgery wouldn't solve this problem, it would only help prevent new sinus infections from appearing. What seems to be the problem is that his infection (from Sept) has never gone away completely. Every time we take him off an antibiotic it shows back up in 2-3 days...that's what happened this week...its still there. We have switched antibiotics a ton to find one to work..and hopefully this one will work...he just needs it longer. They want us to be on this on for 3 weeks. Then before 3 weeks is up they need to assess whether the infection is gone or not...to do this we may need to do a sinus scan to see if his sinus cavities are empty of the infection. If they are not..then we'll start doing other tests to see what the cause is. Our doctor is calling or ENT today to discuss Elliot's case. They are going to come up with a plan as to how to solve this mystery. Guess he is a rare case! Nice! At least our doctor is trying to get this solved for us. He knows we're not happy about putting him on antibiotics so much but at his age there are very few options we can proceed with until he gets older. So they are trying to get us through this winter till he gets older and we can start looking into other solutions (ie: allergies, immune system, scrape his sinus, etc). There biggest concern right now is getting rid of the infection in his body. Everything we've tried so far has just not worked. We meet with the ENT on Monday to discuss this further. Please pray we can find some answers together with the doctors and get this mystery solved. Elliot is really uncomfortable today and its so hard to watch him when he just doesn't feel well. He sneezed this morning and a big green glob about the size of a golf ball came out of his nose. He just has a ton of goo! I can't imagine what his head feels like ....and he can't tell us either! Hopefully we can just get him comfortable here shortly and wait till the infection clears. If you could also pray for direction with Jon and I. We are discussing other options of what to do about this and would appreciate your prayer for wisdom. This time of uncertainty and waiting is hard but we know God is faithful and HE will see us through it. Thanks!