Saturday

On the way to the hospital this morning Tim said, "I've just been praying that God would give Dr. Romano insight. That he would give her an idea of something to do to get Willow out of heart block." I thought that was a good prayer and we continued walking. Today started off well. She got off a lot of her wires so I finally got to hold her! But it ended as one of Willow's hardest days. Willow came off of most of her sedatives and morphine. She was visibly uncomfortable, started throwing up, grunting, and her eyes were rolling back in her head. She was so uncomfortable that she barely slept. It was so hard to watch and she still had enough wires that she was hard to console! When we left for dinner tonight the nurse said that it was safe to say that Willow was in morphine withdrawal. And that's exactly what it felt like! So please pray for her to feel better and for some rest. This afternoon (while Tim took Cale to nap) the doctor on Willow's floor came and spoke with me. He said he spoke with Dr. Romano this morning and they had the idea to put Willow on Prednisone (a steroid). There has been research that it helps with heart block. I immediately felt like it was an answer to Tim's prayer. Pray this is the case. That Willow comes out of heart block in miraculous ways. Because the farther out from surgery we are the more nervous everyone gets. It is really wearing on us. Tim and I are both very discouraged. Will you lift us up in prayer and continue to pray that Willow's heart block goes away and that there is no other surgery and would you pray for it to happen soon? Thank you for your continued prayers!