Thursday, March 9, 2017

Humira

Humira.

This is what the Humira pen looks like. I have to give James the shots every other week. They are pretty scary!


One word. One word, that changed my life (mostly James') forever.

Humira is a biologic medicine that is used to treat a vast majority of autoimmune disorders. Humira for this family was given to us to help "cure" James' Ulcerative Colitis. (See previous post). Going on a biologic is not the first course of action we have taken for his disease. We have tried steroids, diets, every medicine known to man, liquid diets, not eating, and the list goes on and on. (imagine 10 years of this). We were approached about 2 years ago about finally starting to use the magical Humira. And honestly we didn't jump at the first opportunity. There were so many questions. Would James be "cured"? Would this really work? Would he have to continue taking medicine? Would the side-effects be worth it?

After taking all of this into consideration and many, many months of prayer and discussion we decided to take the jump to use the magical medicine. And you know what??!! It worked! I got my husband back! Zoey got a "new" daddy. He is able to run, and go grocery shopping and sit through church (the WHOLE sermon), AND he is able to actually complete his job!

Now, I'm not saying that he is 100% cured. He has bad days still, just the good days outweigh the bad ones. He still has to take some medicine, and we are slowly figuring out what foods he can and can't eat. But all of this is worth it! I am married to  a living miracle who is happy, and got his life back! Humira I LOVE YOU!!!!






2 comments:

  1. Your cat sounds really fun to play with. Your cat is also really cute.

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  2. Ha Ha Ha! (snort!) I love your cat nursery ryhmes

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