Raise Your Hearts and Voices

Hello Everyone

Maybe you already know that Gigi will be having surgery tomorrow, on Monday June 18th.

What the MRI revealed was that the fourth ventricle was not flowing so the neurosurgeion will be going in to fix all that.

She will also have a sac removed from her spinal chord. I cannot remember the correct terminology for the sac but I do remember that although they occur in infancy, the sacs are not usually found until a child reaches their teens and irrepairable damage is done. This MRI was a blessing, in that this sac was found and will be removed now before any damage can occur to the spinal chord.

Jen was at peace when I spoke to her about all of this. She is grateful that the sac will be removed and she remembers Gigi's last surgery, when the flow was adjusted and how quickly she recovered and how much better she did afterwards. Gigi is not showing any signs of this build up of fluid so we pray that she will awaken to even bigger and greater things from this surgery, too.

Please pray for her health in the hospital. Pray specifically for no bleeds and for no menigitis or any illness whatsoever. She will be on a regular ped floor and I think it is a blessing that the surgery is occuring at this time of the year because there should not be too many children in for illness. So please pray for health and no infections.

I will post as soon as I know anything