This has been quite a week! On Monday, Jordan's grandmother suffered a heart-attack, by God's grace, she is home from the hospital and seems to be in good spirits and regaining her strength quickly.
Unfortunately, also on Monday, Luther fell ill. He didn't eat all day and we started to become quite concerned. By Tuesday he was eating again, but he was beginning to favor his back right leg, and by Tuesday night he began to do what is known as "knuckling." Basically, he was walking on the wrong side of his foot. This began a rather quick down-hill progression. Jordan took him to the vet on Wednesday and was diagnosed with conscious proprioception...he had a pinched nerve in his spine and he wasn't able to tell where his foot was. By this time the proprioception had spread to his left rear leg as well and Luther wasn't able to walk. We were quickly referred to a neurosurgeon. Thursday morning we went to see the neurosurgeon and Luther had an MRI and was diagnosed with a herneated disk in his spine. This required immediate surgical attention with the hope that he would make a full recovery. Luther had spinal surgery yesterday afternoon and today we brought him home and he is able to walk normally again! Although these were obviously not our plans, God has been so faithful and cared for us and our dog by allowing us to be able to see a neurologist quickly and the advances of medicine to allow for this to be treated.
On a celebratory note, Wednesday night, Jordan received his Master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins. I am so proud of my hard-working husband, and it is only by God's provision through Lockheed-Martin that he was able to attend such an outstanding college and God's faitfulness that he was able to complege the degree, but boy are we glad to have school behind us!
