Prayers for our family

Josh and I would like to ask for you to pray for our family right now. As many of you know, Jack has been sick so much over the last year (27 illnesses and infections, to be exact), and after an immunoglobulin workup two weeks ago, we finally got a diagnosis of IGG deficiency. What we do know is that his body doesn't produce enough of this type of antibody, so he's unable to fight off a large percentage of illnesses. What we don't know, though, is exactly how this will affect him over the coming years. We meet with a pediatric immunologist on Oct. 14 at UAB, and we should know a lot more then. The treatment plan ranges from the "do nothing" approach (in which we just deal with each illness as it comes and prepare for just as many in the coming years) to daily doses of antibiotics to IV infusions of antibodies. None of these is particularly appealing to us, so we are praying that God will protect his little body and help him to finally hit a healthy stretch.
Our next prayer is for Isabel. She had her 9-month checkup today, and although she has an ear infection and four teeth coming in at once (which is making her pretty pitiful!), it was a fairly uneventful visit until the doctor plotted her growth on the growth chart. Her head has always been "up there" on the chart, but it has always been right in line with her height, so there has never been a cause for concern. Today, however, her height had dropped to the 75th %ile while her head circumference had gone significantly off the chart. The pediatrician asked me a series of questions related to family history, the other kids' head sizes, etc. and after much discussion, he referred Izzy to Children's Hospital for a head CT tomorrow afternoon. He said he doesn't expect a problem, but because her growth pattern is definitely abnormal, he is concerned. We're unsure about whether or not she'll be put to sleep, so that's our first worry, and then of course, we're anxious to get the results of the scan. Please pray for an uneventful procedure and for a negative test result. He said the best case scenario is "benign macrocephaly"...or plain old "big head". :-)
Now the other thing going on right now related to Josh's work. I won't go into details here, but we are in desperate need of provision and direction. We will hopefully know more tomorrow, but at this point, we are unsure of whether or not he will still be employed with his company after this week (due to no wrongful action on his part). As you can see from the paragraphs above, this is not a good time for us to be without health insurance...and have you checked out the COBRA rates recently?!? :-)
We KNOW that God cares for us, and we are casting all of this on Him (1 Peter 5:7), but we are also asking you to join with our whole family as we pray for these issues. We are feeling a bit overwhelmed right now. We are asking for healing for our children, strength to face what may come (Isaiah 40:31), provision for our needs (Matthew 6:25-26), wisdom (Jeremiah 33:3), but most importantly, that we will honor God and bring Him glory. Of course we want all of this to just go away and to have a wonderful job that provides for our perfectly healthy children, but if that is not the path that God leads us down, we want to be prepared and armed with grace...because His grace is sufficient (2 Cor. 12:9)!!
Thank you for reading this crazy long e-mail and for joining us in prayer. We know God is listening! :-)
Love,
allison (and josh and ab and jack and iz)