Yippee Yahooey!!!

Is that how you spell it???!!! We have a celebration happening here in the Shaw house!! Today Meg had her monthly appointment with the neurologist and she was given permission to begin to drive again!! It has been 8 months since she was allowed to drive. (at 20 years old this is no fun.) Meg's seizures are only at night, so she can drive during the day! This is life changing for her. She is back in school this semester and will finish up in December with her state boards!! We had her register in faith that she would be able to keep up with the work load and drive. The way her schedule is, I could drive her, but it isn't close and it would be a lot of back and forth.

Meg has come a long way since January. She is down to only 2 seizures a month, sometimes 3 and her days are great. The medication she is now on doesn't have all the side effects the previous drugs did so we feel like we have our ole Meggie Girl back. We realize we still have a serious issue in her illness, but we have come so far and each month has brought us greater hope. Many epileptics never get full control of their seizures, so that is why we are rejoicing at 2 a month. Also, any day now she will be monitored at night by a machine that pages me when Meg has a seizure or stops breathing. I will no longer have to use a baby monitor to listen for her and try to determine on my own what is happening. It will be great because we are anticipating full nights of sleep again, Meg will be kept safer and she will have some privacy again!!

Through it all we have learned so much. I have learned to better trust God for those I love, I remind myself daily that she is in His hands and nothing can snatch her out out of it. I believe with my whole heart that our days are numbered and nothing and no one can add or subtract a day to our lives. I have learned that He gives strength when strength is needed and that there is not grace for sinful worry, just repentance, but grace to trust God in all things. I have learned that no matter how much I want something to change, God knows what is best and it will change when He deems it to be the perfect time. There is so much more that I have learned in this season, but for now you get the picture.

Thank you to all of you that continually pray for us and ask about Meg in your emails and calls. We feel the care of God through you and am so grateful that we have so many who are sojourning with us on this road. Thank you for the love and care you extend to our daughter. Words fail me. I am in tears as I write this, for I am truly undeserving of the gift of friends and family that God has graciously poured out on me. I will never understand His kindness toward me, a great sinner, but I am so grateful.

Please continue to pray for complete healing for Meg and strength and wisdom as we continue down this road.