Noah's surgery

Monday marked the first day of many procedures to come for our little guy. The doctors think he may have something called Gardner's Syndrome. The long and short of it is that all GS patients have colon cancer pretty early in life. Some of the other things that come along with this are Bone tumors called Osteomas. I am not sure what affect if any those have on the body. Most boys with GS begin to develop polyps on their colon by time they hit puberty, but they can develop as early as 8 months of age. They can also develop polyps on their esophagus and small intestines. 100% of the polyps in GS patients do turn cancerous. He has to under go a colonoscopy and endoscopy quite often. They will remove polyps for as long as they can until they have to remove the colon. Every patient with GS does have their colon removed at some point, this is to stop the cancer from developing and spreading to other areas of the body.

That being said. That is the doctors word, but praise the Lord we have the word of God to stand on. We will proclaim Noah's healing and trust that God is in control.

Noah had his first colonoscopy and endoscopy on Monday and he was clean. No polyps. The doctors plan to check him every two years to try and keep a watch and catch signs early enough. They did find an ulcer in his small intestines which has nothing to do with GS, but they were concerned about him having that so they biopsied everything. We will have results on Thursday. They said the ulcer could be a result of an infection or something which is easy to treat.

I am thankful for Noah having clean test results and pray that it continues. I know God is bigger than any diagnosis a doctor can give. Please pray for him and if you think of him.

He was so brave on Monday. We took some sweet pictures of him. Here they are.