Another blood test

Well, I am heading back to the dr's today for a blood test. I took Garrett to Mother's moring out on Thursday and found out that a little boy in his class has fifth's disease. While this isn't a big deal for him it is for me as I am pregnant. I am really pretty calm about it. The deal is that I have about a 50% likelihood of already having been exposed (and therefore have antibodies so no worries) and if I don't then there's about a 10-15% chance that this could cause issues with this new one. What is can do is cause severe anemia (cause bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells and eventually kill the child before birth) but it can be treated with a pretty high success rate but the treatment doesn't sound like fun (in-utero blood transfusions for one). So my blood test today will reveal if I have the antibodies and whether I've been recently exposed. Fortunately, so far Garrett hasn't developed it but it does take up to 2 weeks so we won't know for sure until the end of this week - his communicable time is prior to the rash which is now.

What I am being struck by is how so many things are coming up with this baby right now. It's like the enemy is really trying to get me to lose my peace and freak out and since I just keep praying and believing that all will be well he just keeps trying new tactics. He knows that this is a sensitive area for me and is trying his best to use it against me. So far I am doing what I know to do (pray and recite scripture and believe) and I still have peace so ... so far so good.

Here's to a good outcome on this blood test today!
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I'll post a pic of me pregnant soon - I am really looking the part these days so you'll enjoy it.