It looks like Selah will be scheduled for surgery on Wednesday to get her feeding tube and trach placed. If this happens, then we start our countdown towards going home. 4-6 weeks from surgery! I am content in the moment but of course we miss home and all our friends and family!
Today was the happiest day for us with her becoming more and more stable physically and actually responding to her cornea being touched! We've prayed since the accident for this! Now we need to see her cough! Her heart rate and blood pressure still go up too high but they are more on the lower side of high now. The fever is pretty much gone thank God!
This afternoon I went to a couple of thrift stores and got some great deals. Couldn't find anything for the boys, so I had to go to Kohl's to buy them both a sweatshirt jacket. Now we all have a jacket, New York will probably have a heat wave LOL!
We got a chance to eat supper with our good life long friends the Wallenbecks (or at least part of their tribe) at Cracker Barrel and they had SWEET ICE TEA! That is a rare find in the north LOL! We bought Sarah another rocking horse, she seems to miss her rocking horse so now she has one here. She was so happy on it and didn't want to get off:) I told Jon I have no idea how we will get it home but we will somehow! She loves a rocking horse and tries to make everything a rocking horse!
I'm back at the hospital. Selah is resting peacefully, with her heart rate and blood pressure down some.
Thank you all for your prayers and please continue to pray! We saw something new today, something that was unexpected...please pray now that she will cough and gag! That would be amazing. Doctors looks for a cough and gag response. It is a brain stem activity and if it is not there when something is inserted into the throat, it indicates severe brain damage. Please pray that she will start gagging and coughing when she is suctioned!!!!!!
Tonight on the way back to the hospital, we saw the biggest, orange, harvest moon. It was breathtaking! Just think the God who created that moon, cares for us! He cares for my little girl....the thought of that just blew me away! God is so faithful even when we are not! Tonight I resting in the "Peace Peace Wonderful Peace"
"Our life maybe a crazy life but it's our life" I'm married to a pastor of a small rural church, who is also the prison chaplain. We have 5 kids, each with their unique story. I love gardening & we all love the outdoors. Our life is not the way we planned it to be, but we are learning to trust God in every area. Come and read about our life as we live it to the fullest!
PRAISE THE LORD for some good news!!! Praying more and more for her to be awakened and healed in God's HOLY NAME!!!
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Oh and I just noticed that we are neighbors....well kind of we live in Brandon, FL :)
Awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThat's so neat about Sarah's rocking horse, since that was one of the first pictures I saw of her (one on your side bar). Can't wait to see her in pig tails again sitting and rocking. :-)
This newest post has brought tears to my eyes. This is such good news. I will continue to pray.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the next time I go home to Florida for a visit, I would love to meet your beautiful family. My parents live in Wesley Chapel, very close to you.
Sincerely,
Samantha
www.thestewreport.blogspot.com
Agreeing in prayer with you over everything you've asked, knowing Father God will do it!
ReplyDeleteMatthew 18:19, Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
Continuing to pray for you and Selah!
ReplyDeleteYvonne, I don't comment on every post, but I do read every post, and I am praying for your strength and peace and praying that God will heal Selah. I am praying that she will cough and gag today and show that she has that ability, and I am praying that she will respond to a cornea touch again today. I am thanking God for your spirit of trust in Him in the midst of this terrible pain. I wrote down your sentence about "trusting in God, not fighting with the devil," to remember in our own struggles. May God hold you very tenderly in the palm of His hand -- your name is written there, and so is Selah's.
ReplyDeletePrayers being said for Selah.
ReplyDeleteAlways praying! And again, I offer any help I can give in regards to the trach and gtube. Praying the surgeries go smoothly, recovery is quick, and she continues to show improvement!
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