Standing in the need of prayer

I was thinking that our room here at Children's is like another space on the Bingo card, and maybe after we have a row of room numbers crossed out, we can win and get out of here--permanently. Wouldn't that be cool? The room backing up to this one is the room Annie was in the first time we were here. We've been in seven so far.

The doctors and nurses are working overtime to figure her out, so I am thankful for that. The people here really care for Annie, and spend lots of time trying to treat her complicated problems. Right now, they are looking into the possibility of a vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) implant as another seizure therapy. Her seizures are not giving up or going away, and medicine just isn't doing the trick. So that's a continuing prayer request--that God would heal her seizures, with or without medical help. Tomorrow she'll have an MRI to see if there are any anatomical reasons not to place the VNS.

On the gastrointestinal front, we started a medicine for her nausea today, and hopefully that'll kick in and start working soon. And on the endocrine front, she's been a bit dehydrated through this last week, so we're pushing fluids into her as fast as she will tolerate it.

Thanks again for ALL your prayers you pray in your car, at your kitchen sink, in your office, and when you hit the pillow at night. We are in need of every one.

Jean

"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer." George Mueller