Yesterday was a very frustrating day! Lexi is a cardiac patient, but she remains in the hospital due to a neurological problem. On Friday, the neurologist never came to see her because she is not on their rounds. We got very little accomplished yesterday!
Today, we did make some advancements (so far this morning at least). The cardiologist and neurologist both came in today. Their "best guess" is in fact that Alexis has a temporary paralysis of the cranial nerves. The odd thing is that it isn't all 12 of the nerves. However, the neurologist have yet to give Lexi a thorough exam. After our own research, it appears that Lexi does not have control of nerves 5,7,9 and 12. The neurologist said today that they want to just "wait and see" (which was one of our fears!). They will not plan to do much of anything with Lexi this entire next week and see if she shows any signs of improvement. If she doesn't, they will do an additional tests, but these will move into the more painful tests for Lexi. The doctor said for other patients that have had similar symptoms, it typically takes 4-6 weeks for the nerves to "reconnect." This means that we would not be home for Christmas.
Prayer Requests:
Please pray for continued wisdom from the neurologist. They have not been taking Lexi's case very seriously. We need her to become a priority so we can figure out what has happened to her and find a cure! We want more than anything to have her home with her sisters for Christmas!
PLEASE pray that the paralysis of the nerves goes away and Lexi's reflexes return to normal. We know God can do amazing things and can heal her even this week. We would LOVE for the doctors to be astounded at her quick recovery so we can tell them we serve a HEALING God!
Pray for Cherie as she travels home to be with the twins today and tomorrow and for Jon as he remains at the hospital. It has become apparent that one of us MUST ALWAYS be at the hospital as we are the only advocate for Lexi and her care!
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Unfortunately we have found that is the case whether they are little or adults. David has to take off work every time I am in the hospital for the same reason. We prayed for you all at Cabaret tonight!!! I wish with all my experience in hospitals between two of the kids and myself I wish I had more positive advice to give you.
I hope being home helped rejuvenated you a bit Cherie. I was telling David that maybe coming home for a weekend would be good for the soul!!
LORD PLEASE GIVE THEM A SIGN!!!!
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