MOMENT #9

It has not been a very healthy year for our family. My grandmother and mother have both had hospital stays, my sister in law was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Matt was miserable!
I came back from Chicago to a very sick husband. So sick in fact that we didn't go to work during a show! And he NEVER does that. We thought it was a bad case of the flu but then his lower legs started swelling to almost double their normal size. Bad pregnancy jokes aside, we decided to take him to the doctor. After medications and several different blood tests, a kidney biopsy and a many blessings, Matt was diagnosed with a rare form of nephritis. Long story short his kidneys weren't absorbing protien and letting it pass through into the urine, causing the swelling in his legs among other things. It isn't neccesarily curable but very controlable. We were very blessed to have such wonderful doctors readily available to us here in Boise. He was put on a very strict medication routine which included a steroid, antibiotics, vitamins, ace inhibitors and several more, a few of which affect him so that getting pregnant during this time would be a very bad idea, thus postponing our family. If you notice Matt looking different in many of the pictures it is mostly in part of the side effects of the steroid, causing him to gain quite a bit of weight in a short time. Poor guy had a rough year, but thanks to many many prayers, as of end of november Matts bloodwork was amazing and he is in "remission" and most of his meds have been severly cut back or are gone completly. Hopefully, fingers crossed, by march he will be 100 percent done with medication and will only have to have random blood tests to ensure it is staying in remission.