Social-distancing & an update

It’s been so long since I’ve posted any updates about our family or Elizabeth’s transplant recovery. Honestly, I’ve been battling with low-grade depression since E’s surgery & it’s been easier just put my head down & deal with the urgent needs in front of me.  With COVID-19 in the forefront of all our minds, some of you have been checking in & I wanted to let you know how we’re doing. 

Social distancing has been our middle name since November! After two glorious weeks in February when we got to visit colonial Williamsburg mostly mask-less & attend a class for school IN PERSON...we’re back to our old routine of self-quarantining & keeping Amazon & Instacart in business. 😷. The GREAT news is, Elizabeth is doing brilliantly from a transplant recovery perspective. Following months of tinkering with her meds on a weekly basis, her labs all look  great, & she’s once again gaining weight, & is fully off the additional immunosuppression required for the first 3 months post-transplant.  She got a mild cold and handled it like a champ, so that bodes well! She’s been having a mysteriously high heart rate for a few months now, so we’re investigating that, but all-in-all, she is doing so well. 

Many of you have asked...Matt’s still working in the hospital, but they are pushing off any non-urgent patient visits they can & utilizing tele-medicine whenever possible.  He had his first “possible exposure” experience last week and it really drove home the reality that for him, and us, if feels like it’s only a matter of time. 

I’m not exaggerating when I say this only feels a *bit* different than how we’ve been living for the last 15 years.  So much of our future has been uncertain for so long. “Through many dangers, toils and snares” we have seen God’s daily bread provided so faithfully that we know he will continue to meet us where & when we need him.  We have learned, even without certainty of our future, we have deep & abiding hope & it is our prayer that we can share that peace & toilet paper 🤗 we have with our neighbors during this scary & uncertain time. 

Please pray for our protection & for joy to abound in our home.  How can we pray for you?? 💗