Gavin

About 3 weeks ago we took Gavin in for some medical tests. He had been having these brief periods where he would kind of black out and not be aware of what was going on around him.
At first we thought he was being the typical 12 year old and was selecting not to here us, but I guess that wasnt the case.
When they continued to get more and more frequent I really started to worry about him, so we took him to the Dr.
The neurologist did some tests and told us that he has epilepsy, WOW!
That was all that I could say I was to say the least very suprised, worried, scared, mad!
We never want any harm to come to our children and it just seemed like he had enough dumped on him the last few years without having to deal with this.
We are still in the trial stage with the medication and he has good and bad days.
The medicine makes him sick, but on the days that he feels ok I finally feel like I have my old Gavin back.
He was not very happy about the diagnosis either it took all of his fun stuff away. No Football, video games, computer games!
Those are about all of his favorite things.
So he is adjusting and I am very proud of him. School is a struggle with the seizures and the side effects from the medicine but he is trying.
I know that God has a reason for everything, and I think that this is teaching all of us in this family a few things.

Football! Football! Football!

So the newest endevour around here is Football
Ian for the last (I dont know forever)...has been begging and begging us to let him play football.
Well until this year he hasnt been old enough to play. Well he turned 8 the 17th of August and was eagerly awaiting the time he could sign up.
To say the least he has had one thing on his mind since then.
"What time is practice, how many days this week do we have practice, Do we get to wear all of our equipment today, Do we get to tackle today"? and so on and so on.
So he is more than happy that Football is in full swing!
Gavin has said all along he wants absolutely nothing to do with Football. Basketball is all that he wants to play and he didnt want us bugging him about playing Football.
So I dont know if it was seeing how excited Ian was every night after practice or just watching them play, but all of a sudden he is really interested!
Being a little apprehensive about him changing his mind, we made him go to a few of the practices before we got him committed to it.
He loves it!
I love seeing him find anything that interests him other than playing video games!
It has made things a little crazy around the house with Football 5 nights a week, and my starting my new job. Seeing those two roll around in the mud (most days) and enjoy it makes it all worth while!