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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Mia in surgery

They took Mia at 1pm to go into surgery. We're doing fine. I expect her to be in surgery for 4 hours. We love you all. Brad & Lisa

Update (12 noon). There has been a delay, the surgeon is still in his first surgery. We are still in good spirits, Mia has stolen the hearts of everyone in the pre-treatment unit. We will post again when the surgery starts.

We just got to the hospital and are waiting to get checked in. Surgery is scheduled for 10am, pray that they would get IV access quickly and easily, she's always hard to get a line in. Pray also that she wouldn't get hungry, she hasn't eaten since last night. So far, she's doing fine.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Surgery On Thursday

Mia continues to keep on improving in crawling and just the other day she realized it takes her to the bookcase and she loves pulling off her books, we think that's great.

Surgery is on Thursday and here are a few things you can pray for:

1. That everything would go smoothly and there would be no complications.
2. Pray for the doctor to be rested and to have wisdom throughout the surgery.
3. Pray that she would be able to control her bowel movements, that her intestine is connected real low down.
4. Pray for a quick recovery and a short hospital stay.

Thank you for praying!!!

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

She Crawls!

So, Mia started crawling a bit on Sunday night/monday morning and I've been trying to capture it on video to share. She will only go a little bit at a time and if I put a toy too far away, she'll go onto her tummy to get it because her arms are so long that it's just easier. But, we figure she'll be getting around better and better as she gets stronger and it won't be no time before I'll be chasing after her. :) Praise God!!!

By the way, I put her down in the office and she immediately went towards things plugged into the computer...hmm...we'll have to start baby proofing I imagine! That makes us very happy.

So I can't figure out the video, but I will have Brad work on it when he can and hopefully in the next day or so you'll get to see her in motion a bit!!

Update: here it is! See for yourself!

Mia's Story

Mia was born October 12th, 2007. Lisa's water broke early at 34 weeks and she was in the hospital for 2 weeks because she didn't go into labor. During that time, they noticed a blocked intestine in Mia and determined that she should be delivered down at UCLA. So, at 36 weeks, Mia was delivered via C-section (because she was breech). We know that was a God thing because after she was born we found out her heart had not completed closing off the four chambers (an AV Canal) and a stressful delivery might not have been best for her. We also found out she didn't have an anal opening and her right nostril was blocked. Months later we would find out her skull had fused early. All of these things required surgeries. On May 1st, 2008, Mia had surgery on her skull and suffered a stroke during it. The doctors told us she would only "eat, breath, smile and laugh". People from all over had already been praying for Mia, but so many more joined in and she is truly a miracle because she continues to progress far beyond what anyone would have imagined. This is our blog to document that journey of our little girl, thank you for praying and we hope it will encourage you as much as it encourages us. God is good, all the time!