Praise God!!!!

They just finished with Karen's scope. I'm waiting for her to come up from recovery. No chron's disease, no ulcerative colitis, no cancer!!!!!!!!

She only had a small area of irritation, or colitis. The doctor referred to it as an ischemic colitis. This is not a chronic condition. Ischemic colitis is a small area of inflamation of the bowel, caused by an inadequate blood flow to the area.

We'll have to do further testing to determine what caused the lack of blood flow to the area, but this is not considered a severe condition!! More than likely, there will be some tie to the other rheumatologic issues she's been dealing with, but we still consider this finding to be a blessing!

While we still have to deal with the autoimmune issues, things are not nearly as urgent or severe as we had feared. She may even get to go home tomorrow!

Thank you all for your prayers! From all we have heard from the doctors and nurses the past several days, this is nothing less than a miracle. Our God is an AWESOME God!!!!!!