From:    norenbergs@comcast.net

Hello everyone at Blessed Arrows!  I am so delayed in writing this, 
but better late than never sometimes, right? ;-)

On October 13, Jerry had his reversal with Dr. Wilson.  Chalk up one more
on the "Highest of recommendations" list.  He is such a godly man and we 
definitely knew that God's hand was on us and this whole situation.  We both felt 
a peace about everything from the minute we confirmed the appointment with him.  
I believe the devil must know that, though, because our well-traveled 
children, who usually are great on the road, were absolutely awful on the entire 
drive there.  We weren't very great about that ourselves until we both had an 
"Ah ha!" moment about it all.  We talked to the kids about it, too and the trip 
home was at least a *little* better (but not a whole lot, so I know we were 
being tested, tried, you name it).  

The kids and I stayed only long enough to talk with Dr. Wilson (I did, 
not them lol) and then he had prayer with our family before everything started.  
I did take the kids back to the hotel and we did a little bit of school work.  
The kids and I stopped and prayed many times throughout the day, even while 
we were driving.  We went to Walmart for a break in action :-D and some lunch 
and the day actually went really well.  Jerry was in surgery for 6.5 hrs.  I am 
so proud of him, because he had to be awake the entire time.  He has a long 
history of passing out when he experiences physical trauma and he fights it hard.  
He passed out during and after the vasectomy itself.  Often, he gets sick 
afterwards.  He was really concerned about this, because 1) he didn't 
want to not be able to complete the surgery due to passing out and 2) he didn't 
want to be violently ill afterwards either.  So we'd asked about having some 
kind of sleepy meds, so he wouldn't have to even be aware of anything.  Well, 
it turns out that Dr. Wilson usually *does* give "sleepy meds" (as the other 
couples who've gone to him probably know), but he didn't feel comfortable or 
safe giving them to Jerry *because* of the passing out problem.  He said he 
wouldn't be able to know easily if he was just sleeping or was passed out.  
Ack!  So my baby had to be completely awake and we prayed hard about that.  
He only passed out once at the beginning during local anesthetic and that was it.  
He and Dr. Wilson talked about anything and everything except what was actually 
being done ;-) and it did keep his mind occupied.  

He recovered very quickly and had very little pain or swelling.  
Another concern Dr. Wilson had had was infection, since J is allergic to 
anything in the penicillin and erythromycin families (this leaves very few 
antibiotic options for him).  We ended up doing a couple of natural anti-pathogenic 
things we've been doing for other things and they worked great!  His incisions even 
healed very rapidly.  (For anyone interested, we use Oil of Oregano and 
Colloidal Silver for anything infections, sicknesses, etc and they both knock 
things out very quickly).  He also took certain amounts of various vitamins and 
supplements that are known to aid the body in recovering and healing, along with 
his regular ones.  

This is the first full cycle that a baby is possible, so we are just 
going to wait and see what happens :-).  Hopefully, a baby is what happens, but 
if not, we are both trusting God's timing, even though for me especially, it's 
a daily step I have to take.  I know if I am not pregnant next month, I will 
probably feel disappointed, so I am praying for God's grace every day with my 
emotions.  

Congratulations to all of you expecting new babies!  This is so 
exciting!  I hope we can add an announcement sometime soon!  

One last note - is there going to possibly be a testimonial page for 
Dr. Wilson like there are for others?  If so, we don't mind in the least having 
ours there.  

Have a blessed day, everyone!

Amy Norenberg

Conceived: Jan 06

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