Well, little miss Olive is sound asleep after another eventful day. Her suture from the shunt has continued to leak out cerebral spinal fluid. This is causing a concern for infection---if fluid can leak out, bacteria can creep in. If infection creeps in and causes meningitis this would mean the shunt will need to be removed and more surgery of putting a new shunt in. So, all this to say, please continue praying against any kind of infection.
Tonight the neurosurgeon came and put more stitches in her suture, hoping this will help the leakage issue. Right now her shunt is working a little too well and shunting too much fluid out of her head. The problem is they can't increase the pressure of the shunt until her suture line heals shut. Please pray for those skin cells to continue weaving together and healing.
Rusty is flying back to Thailand on Sunday to meet with some businessmen interested in marketing the tea and coffee that Thai-Akha Ministries Foundation (the foundation we work with…http://t-amf.org) has been growing. This has been one of his main goals—to find ways to help the foundation become self supported, and this meeting was planned about a year ago.
We also still have many unclosed ends that need to be taken care of there and this will give him a chance to do that. Though our future is unknown with Olive and the possibilities to return to Thailand, we are still able to continue some of our responsibilities while living here in the States. Rusty will be gone for about 2.5 weeks, and even though the timing isn’t ideal we both agree on the importance of him going. Please pray for us as we are apart and for all the changes of being discharged home during that time. At this point discharge is tentatively planned for next week, but we will see how things go with little miss O.
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Daddy God, we praise you for your greatness and all-loving ever present being. We thank you for Olive and how she has been able to touch so many lives without even leaving her crib. We know that she is your child before she is ours, and we trust that You have a special purpose for her life and will continue to heal her. Please place your loving hand upon her head and help the incision to seal and skin to grow together. Help her shunt to be properly regulated, and keep her little body free from all infection. We also hold up Lynette and Rusty to you, Lord. Although they will be geographically separated for awhile, please facilitate easy communication and strengthen the fibers of that invisible bond of love that unites them. Give them both strength and wisdom in the upcoming days. All of this we ask in the name of Your Son. Amen -Jenn/Snowflower in GR, MI
That Medicaid number...what a perfect number :) Praise God from Whom all blessings flow~
Thanks for sharing your needs again~ you have my prayers, Polinder 3!
A verse that came to mind when I read this was I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 And no matter what happens it is Him that is strengthening you and through Him you guys are doing such wonderful things. Through Him Olive is continuing to fight. Something we learned very quickly was that life does go on around us and that it is a good thing because if life stopped when we did it would offer no hope for the future! So we are praying for you guys and fighting there beside you! Waiting and praying for a positive update soon! xxx The Slater's
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