Sometimes there are times that are joyful and other times when everything that can go wrong goes wrong. The month of September was one of the latter times for Jonathan and I. In August we found out that we were pregnant! We and both our families were very excited! I was dealing with quite a bit of morning sickness, but I had started a new (and better) job in Wake Forest and was able to keep going to school and work despite it. But then September started... The day before my birthday my grandfather (mother's father) passed away from lung cancer and COPD. We had to go to Tennessee for two days, which was difficult seeing I was constantly nauseated and the driving took it's toll on me. It hit my mom rather hard but we all tried to support her and the family during the time. The very next Monday I had my first pre-natal check up, there we found out that I had a abnormal pregnancy called a Molar Pregnancy. Basically there wasn't enough DNA to give the baby life but my body tried to compensate for it by taking nutrition from me and feeding it to the tissue that was growing in my womb making me very sick. At the end of the week I had a DNC, we will still be able to have kids but we will need to wait a few months till we are clear to try again. A week and a half afterwards Jonathan's grandfather (mother's father) passed away, also from COPD. We went to South Carolina for the funeral and visited his family.
It's been a hard month, but God has sustained us through the storm. With the support of our church, family, and friends we have been encouraged to continue on. And we know that not only must life continue on but we must trust that the events of the past month will be used by God for good (Romans 8:28). We look forward to the next month to see what God has in store or us.
