Prayers for Ben: Answered

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for my son Ben - it made a difference. This morning he had a colonoscopy where they found and removed a polyp. They believe that was the source of the bleeding. That's an answer to all of our prayers. The polyp and some other biopsy samples they took of some bumps in his intestines are being sent to the lab. We'll know the results in a week or so. I'll send you over to my wife's blog for a few more details.

Ben is doing well and recovering fairly quickly. He's been a real trooper and showed a whole lot of bravery through out the past three and a half days. I'm very proud of him. His bottom's sore from the colonoscopy and the removal of the polyp, of course. Due to his age, they put him to sleep to do the procedure. The waking up process was not much fun for him, so it was a good thing mommy was there to hold him. He ended up taking about a forty minute nap snuggled up with her in the recovery room. He told me tonight that he was glad to be back with his whole family. We're glad to have him and mommy back.

P.S. A correction on my medical terminology on the last post - on Thursday Ben had a meckel's scan, not a merkel scan. That came back negative. This test was in some ways worse than the colonoscopy because they taped him down to the table so that he would not move during the scanning. He definitely did not like that at all. And the imaging device was positioned only a couple of inches above him, adding to it. He cried for a few minutes and then calmed down, eventually falling asleep. It took about half an hour to do the actual scan.