Keloid

According to Wikipedia,
A keloid is a type of scar which results in an overgrowth of tissue at the site of a healed skin injury. Keloids are firm, rubbery lesions or shiny, fibrous nodules, and can vary from pink to flesh-colored or red to dark brown in color. A keloid scar is benign, non-contagious, and usually accompanied by severe itchiness, sharp pains, and changes in texture. In severe cases, it can affect movement of skin.



At 20 mths exactly today, Jere's battle scar look like this. This is at the part where you usually feel your backbone. Yes, Jere was born with his out... not covered. Jere has had 2 operations since. One at Day 1 of his life to cover up the open neural tube defect and the other was on the 8th day when the neuro surgeon said there was a leakage at the op site and need to do repair. That second op, the neuro surgeon put in artificial tissue. After that, the would healed and this formed. It is exactly as what is described above. "firm, rubbery lesions or shiny, fibrous nodules, and can vary from pink to flesh-colored or red to dark brown in color" depending how you look at it. And yes, it is severely itchy, that Jere scratches at it without mercy so we could hardly wear nice tees for him but rather we still have to dress him in rompers and onesies so we button up and he can't get at it... and it's so hard to find big cool looking onesies as he gets bigger by the day.

Please pray that the healing blood of Jesus be upon Jeremiah and that Jere can live life without being so affected by this. This is just the surface. We pray even more that the precious blood of Jesus covers Jeremiah from the top of his head to the soles of his feet and flows through every fibre, every nerve and every cell of Jeremiah and heal everything that has been affected by his open neural tube defect. AMEN

Battles aren't won by spears and swords...
The battle is the Lord's!

AMEN!