The Beginning

For those of you who don't know my family there is my wonderful beautiful wife Heidi, my soon to be daughter Emma, me of course and then there is Mikee. Mikee was born July 18Th 2007 and has had problems from the very start. Don't ask me what is wrong with him because what seems like a thousand doctors haven't been able to figure it out and for some reason God hasn't told us yet. All we know is that Mikee has what we call "episodes." They appear to be seizures and at times are big enough that it paralyzes his entire body. Because of these "episodes" he is physically behind, and arguably mentally behind. That's the Mikee that unfortunately if you don't know him that you see. The Mikee that everyone knows and loves is the happiest little boy in the world. It doesn't matter if he is getting stuck with a needle for the hundredth time or if he has just had his 8Th episode of the day he always has a smile on his face. It is a well known fact that 75% of marriages that have special needs children end in divorce. My wife and I are happy to say that we are part of the 25%. There is only one reason that we are the way we are, and that is our relationship with Jesus Christ. Mock me all you want and roll your eyes but every day that that little boy is in pain, that he looks at us with those eyes that ask you why he has to go through this you need something as a parent to lean on. We have faith. It is both that difficult to understand and it is that simple. We know that no matter how many "I don't knows" we hear, no matter how many doctors and hospitals we have to go to we are doing it for a reason. It's never easy and it never will be. But we have a God who has a bigger plan than we can fathom. Do we wish that he would find a different way, of course. The thing is ask anyone that knows Mikee, and they will tell you that there is something about that little boy that gets to you. Its not the fact that he is sick all of the time, its something else. God has a plan for our little family. We don't know what it is but we know it is going to be big. God is going to use that little boy for His kingdom.