Dear Friends,
I wouldn't normally forward you a letter that I had already sent to a friend privately but I hope she will excuse me as I thought it the best way to share my heart and our circumstances with you...
Crazy days! Our recent days have been dominated by a weekend in the hospital for our youngest daughter (and I - Cori). She was experiencing chest pains (and still is a bit) but was otherwise healthy and happy which made it much more bearable. We realized on Friday morning that her complaints were consistently about pain in her chest. Before that we'd thought that we were responding to the usual bout of two year old nicks and scrapes. So, (on Friday morning) I called her paediatric cardiologist and asked for advice. He advised seeing our family doctor who wasn't available. We knew that, regardless of where we went, saying to any doctor, apart from him, that our two year old with a heart condition was having chest pain would get us sent to the ER. So we went to the ER and were soon admitted. They decided to do 48 hours of monitoring. Really they didn't have the right equipment needed to monitor her specific condition or someone with expertise on her needs. So it was a lot of calling Sick Kids in Toronto for advice and such. In short, our little girl's heart rate is irregular and low which they said was not critical right now but is consistent with someone with her condition.
They released us today and we were home early after noon with the plan to get to see her paediatric cardiologist tomorrow (please pray this will happen) so that he can properly monitor her and can compare her condition now to his previous notes on her. He is a good Christian man but rather tight lipped with information and obviously very busy so hard to get a hold of. (We are really hoping and praying that he will monitor her now rather than in six weeks when he is supposed to see her next.)
So, again we covet your prayers for our girl.
Otherwise, we are in good spirits, not wanting to compare ourselves but having seen so many kids recently in much worse shape. I've been inspired by a family who's daughter has been a the brink of death since before Christmas and the way that they praise God daily in their Facebook updates.
Our children are God's and not our own and as such he doesn't owe us another day with them but trusts us with their upbringing. Amazing, eh? In addition to that it was just so nice to have time to just spoil my girlie and to cuddle her lots and to play only with her, not something we do often. As well, we have just been so blessed by friends and family and neighbours who took the kids, shoveled the drive, fed us, walked the dog, delivered the newspapers, brought tea for us and activity pages for the princess when she wasn't allowed to move. Amazed by God's provision in only 48 hours.
So anyway, we request your prayers for the days ahead and will keep you posted. Pray that we will be able to ride this storm with strength (physical, emotional and spiritual) and faith.
"You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light." Psalm 18:28
Many blessings,
Cori and the rest of the Dean Clan
Saying a prayer for you and your little girl and thanking the Lord for your testimony of thankfulness. It is so often when times are hard that we clearly see His goodness.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the update. Your daughter has been in my thoughts and prayers. Luana
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your kind words and prayers. A few days after our crazy weekend in the hospital, our girlie caught a virus but is now recovering from a bit of cold/flu. The cardiologist is confident that her condition is still the same as it was in the fall and he will be seeing her again soon. For now, her pain is mostly subsided but we continue to seek out wisdom.
ReplyDelete(One positive point in all of this was that it brought to light the fact that we had so many doctors and professionals involved that there seemed to be a game of pass the buck going on and no one was actually in charge of her medical care. That after it took several days to get a doctor to prescribe the antibiotics that everyone seemed to think that she needed as a result of all the testing done at the hospital.) Sigh! Never a dull moment here!