Updates and prayer request: Lymes disease

Well, we're glad we took Annabelle in. The bloodwork that did the panel for tickborne diseases was positive for one of the indicators for Lyme's Disease.
So glad that we know why she's been not feeling well and that hopefully it is earlier enough to treat (the dr. said it was) ...
please pray that her body will respond well to the antibiotics and recover fully from this disease.

In case you're wondering what her symptoms were: fatique (off and on)...she'd have her usual high energy but then come in and say she was tired or didn't feel good or wanted to lie down. Low grade fever...just above normal... off and on. She'd bring the thermometer to me and tell me she had a fever.

What made it hard was that 1) we have had several things go through our big family that sometimes not everyone catches, and 2) Annabelle and Elsie both love to play nurse and seem to like playing the patient too (one day all the little ones were reported to be sick and they had them lying in their bed with their nurses taking their temperatures...Sean,Lily and Aidan loved it, too.

We took her in because it kept persisting and just wasn't normal for Annabelle to run out of energy.
We also have alot of ticks around here, which by the way, the doctor mentioned that GARLIC repels ticks, so eating garlic and taking a supplement can actually keep them off of you... so we are working on that! Also, chickens and guinea hens help control ticks which we are hoping to get in the future. If you have any remedies for controlling ticks, let us know for sure.

thanks for praying for our sweet girl. She has seemed to not have the fever the last few days but has a rash on her arm and a faint itchy rash on her face and neck.

We took Joshua for a pediatrician visit and had a very good visit...our doctor spent alot of time with us (she was also seeing Haylee) and stayed after hours on a Friday even. Amazing thing was that not only did he not cry with his shots, but he laughed when he got them! (I don't think our doctor has ever seen that reaction before) God's grace to him I think that he is (lately) overly happy and laughs (for reasons we don't know) instead of crying uncontrollably as he did before more frequently. We have his neurology appt this week so we hope to find out more about how we can help Joshua more.