Yesterday marked the opening of a new chapter in my life - hospital visits for my child(ren). My son, Mason, had an MRI - he is 3 years old. The entire experience was pretty traumatic... not just on him... but on Valerie and I. When you think about the experience of an MRI, it doesn't take too long to understand that a three-year-old will not be sitting still on his own for the 45-minute scan. So... they put him under general anesthesia. I know that different people respond to anesthesia in different ways - some can't stop laughing - Mason is a fighter. He fought the feeling of loosing control of his body, of going limp, with everything he had. And he fought again while waking up. It was very difficult to watch... and even more difficult carrying him out to the car after the test. He was adamant about walking on his own, but his legs just weren't working yet, and he didn't understand why.
Mason has had a big head since he was born, and earlier this year a neurologist diagnosed him as midly-Autistic. These are the reasons for the MRI... to see what is going on up there. We will learn the results in the next couple days.
In other news... our home went into escrow today. With any luck, we'll be homeless soon! We are headed off to Colorado Springs in a few weeks to find a bigger place... for a bigger family at some point down the road.
Transition is a beast! But at least it means we're still going somewhere... where-ever God is leading. The MRI sucked... but at least were about to answer some questions that we've had for the last three years. The process of selling our home and leaving our friends and family in southern California sucks, too.... but we'll no doubt will have a nice future in Colorado.
I have come to learn that in life, change is a fact - and when change happens, transition is the process we have to get through in order to accept the death of the way things were, and embrace God's future for us. Change is no big deal, because it is instant. Transition is the tough part.... but at least if I'm in transition, I know that God still has plans for me.
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