Rest and Observation

This should be my last post concerning my sister for those of you who are praying because it appears that we are out of the woods, Lord willing. The doctors did a scan with die of her blood flow and found only a small leakage from the bile duct. The key word is small and they are going to keep her under observation and see if the problem fixes itself which they are fairly confident that it will do. They may need to drain the fluids but believe that there should be no need for any invasive abdominal surgeries.

Having the leg surgery behind us and no need for this surgery, we may just be done with everything that doctors and knives can do and now will need to give time for the body to heal itself. The doctors are telling us that she’ll be in the hospital for two weeks for observation of the liver and bile and leg.

The family (both church and physical) are setting up a rotating schedule to sit with her around the clock and take care of their four kids. My wife and I both wish so bad that we could be there. The cross of Christ falls hardest on the family and would be the only thing worthy of such pain of distance in my opinion. For now we will honor her by continuing on with two churches I’ll be preaching in tomorrow, a men’s and lady’s one-night retreat at the end of next week, and all the other Gospel related activities God has called us to.

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The Best Sound

After a number of hours despairing of ever hearing her voice again, I was able to speak with my sister Leah on the phone about a half hour ago. I cried again but tried to joke. I was just so happy to hear her. God stopped the internal bleeding by His mighty hand and for all the skeptics out there, YES, I will give Him alone the glory for that.

She was obviously drugged and in pain with her leg but …I spoke with her! and I’m going to go to thank God our Father.

Keep praying for her all night as she won’t sleep much. She’ll have surgery on her ankle and femur tomorrow.

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No Internal Bleeding

I just heard from my dad and the doctors found no more internal bleeding. They had through that she had some extensive bleeding but when they went in they found that it had clotted. I believe this is God’s sovereign hand working for us and through our prayers. Thank you so much for praying!

Now she will be observed until her leg surgery at 6 pm.

Tomorrow they want to make sure that her Bile Duct is not ruptured. If it is they’ll need to do surgery. Otherwise she is in stable condition and we are all so happy for this miracle for someone so loved by so many.

Keep praying for her please over the next 24 hours.

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