Moving?

Alright.

As

Usual

WE are onto something...

I'm not up on it, so I have to BACK TRACK yet again for this to even remotely make any sense to someone reading who isn't intimately involved in our lives.

WE MIGHT BE MOVING

Our pumpkin pie, Malakai, has extremely severe allergies and asthma.  We are talking food and environment, and when I say major I mean major.  I'm toting an epi-pen and all kinds of goodies with me.  

You say what food is he allergic to?  The easier question to answer is what is he NOT allergic to.  He can have chicken, beef, fruit, and vegetables minus peas.  We were already used to all the allergy stuff when we adopted Kai.  That part didn't even make me flinch.  The asthma.  That's another story.  We have to suck air.  It's a mandatory part of being alive.  So long story short...Kai is very very very very allergic to the Northwest region of this country.  Like has to be put on oxygen at times.  Like hospital visits where they role in the crash cart...  Has to go lengthy periods of remaining indoors.  We have all kinds of air purifiers all over the place.  At any rate, you get the point.  It's serious.

We have done all sorts of medical intervention and alternative and natural interventions.  Josh has run all kinds of blood work, which we supplement specifically with, we have done laser treatments, we have done homeopathy, we do chiropractic (OBVIOUSLY!:)), we do the pediatrician...the list goes on.

These days Kai has to be on a daily inhaled steroid to function.  And even with that he's not doing great.  He still has to have other treatments on top of that at times, and he's still itchy, scratchy, sneezy, stuffy, and snotty.  (And this is just all in one dwarf! not seven)  Even with that we are still limited to indoors much of the time.  

We went to Maui this past Christmas.  We have heard of many people who go to Hawaii and get well or do way better.  So before going we prayed lots and decided that if Kai was absolutely PERFECT there, we would open the conversation of should we leave everything and move there so our boy can have a 'normal' life.

Welllllllllll.  WE went.  He was PERFECT.  No meds.  No itchy.  No scabs.  No eczema.  He could BREATH!!!!  He could play outside just like a little boy should!  I have never ever once been able to see this child be so free.  It was a complete and total delight.  

So we came home:(  So sad to leave the beauty and joy of this kid being so free and healthy.  But we had to see the contrast and we thought perhaps God healed him while we were there!!!  But within two days of being home symptoms began, and within one week we were back on oxygen, heavy liquid steroids and breathing treatments and stuck indoors.  

One other interesting detail was that the person we rented the house from on Maui also has asthma, but if he stays in Maui he doesn't have the symptoms.  When he goes back to where he's from he said in about one week it starts.  He also said upon returning to Maui he is well in about a week and stays that way. We saw the same thing in Kai.  Once we were there about a week he was doing really well, but the longer we were there the more 'perfect' he became.

Just another journey of faith....what does God have in store???  We will find out as we step in faith.