Tuesday, December 9, 2008

More labs to update

Hi everyone,
Today we were very happy to receive a call from Brenda at Cleveland with the results of his Pancreatitis related labs. These were the labs that were drawn on October 30th. We knew they would take 6 weeks to get the results and we have been anxiously watching the calendar the last few days. Brenda said the labs for the genetic testing for the pancreatitis were all negative. I know this means he does not have the Cystic Fibrosis gene and the hereditary pancreatitis was also ruled out. I wasn't really sure what the third lab result was related to but it was some form of genetic predisposition for pancreatitis, which was also ruled out. So we are very thankful for such good news again! He'll be going to Cleveland the first week of January to meet with Dr. Kay and determine what we do next. We continue to be very impressed with the staff from Cleveland Clinic and their helpfulness as we try and understand all of this. Thank you for all of your continued support and prayers!
PS: My mom wrote this post!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 comments:

Dawn said...

Great news! Anytime you can rule out something genetic you have to be pleased!

So glad things are going well.

Julie said...

What great news!! Sorry you have to travel so far to get some answers to the many questions you've had for so long but it sounds like it is now definately worth it.
Thanks for the update.

Anonymous said...

Yes it is definitely totally AWESOME!!!!!! to not have a geneteic disease. Praise the Lord!!! Of course, Mom does call me a genetic mutant...
BELIEVE IT!!!! DON'T YOU DARE LAUGH!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm just catching up with the details on the blog, but Uncle Dan has been filling me in on all he knows along the way. This is all great news and I am glad to have read it myself. Thank you bloggers for such detail!! Keep up the good work - the whole family are real team players in this!