Sunday, May 04, 2008

• Training break - requesting prayer for my son

  It's Sunday morning and normally I'd go to the gym for an hour before getting ready for church, but I'm going to take a break from my training today.  For one thing I have to go to church early for a Celebrate Recovery leader's meeting, but I also am skipping the gym and waiting till my wife gets up so she can keep an eye on my son this morning after he gets up.  About 4:00 this morning my wife woke up after hearing a thud, thinking one of the kids fell out of bed (which never happens).  When she ran to check (I was also coming behind her), she called in a panic from the bathroom.  My 13-year-old son had fallen backwards into the bathtub after taking a pee, which was the thud we heard when he hit the bathtub.  He was pretty much passed out, probably a fainting episode, and I picked him and laid him on the floor.  He very slowly came to, complaining that his chest hurt and very groggy.  He had no recall of being in the bathtub where he fell. 

  This is the third time that he has fainted over a period of probably four years.  The first time was at a soccer practice, and the second time was at home in our kitchen.  Both of these times he had just gotten over a fever, so we always thought there was a connection.  We had him see a doctor, and they ran blood work and a couple tests. The only diagnosis was being prone to fainting and low blood pressure after getting up quickly, which could have been part of his fainting last night getting up to go to the bathroom.  Plus he didn't really eat any supper since we were running errands last evening after a late lunch.

  In any event, I sat by his bed for quite a while and then prayed for him with my wife who was very shook up finding him passed out in the bathtub.  My wife wanted me to just hold her.  Neither of us could fall asleep and we were thinking about getting up to watch TV or read, but then I woke up at 6:00 and she was sound asleep.

  It's 7:30 and my son just got up.  He seems okay, but I'm having him eat breakfast right away.

  My prayer request is for the Lord to guard him with these fainting spells.  This one could have been more serious if he cracked his head on the bathtub.  We will worry about this happening again, or when he is on his mission trip to Nashville this summer.  Pray that we not be overly protective and hold him back from what he should be involved in, but at the same time these fainting incidents have been scary times. 

  Thanks.

  [Edit: 6:15 p.m.:  My son seems to be fine, but we've been taking it easy today, and plan to have a doctor check him out this week, which we have to do anyway for a high school physical form.  I had three elders in our church pray for him this morning after the service and anoint him with oil in the spirit of James 5: 14-17 (see below). 

  As I reflected today on finding my son passed out in the bathtub, tears came to my eyes a couple times.  I pray that the Lord protects him from future such occurrences.

  From James 5:  14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.]

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