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From the Pray for Emily Facebook Group

3 Months

It’s hard for us to believe that tomorrow
three months will have passed
since Emily’s accident on June 10th.

It’s even harder to realize that there are most likely
going to be many, many more hard months ahead.

But God has promised new strength for each and every day
and we take comfort in that promise.

There have begun to be some very subtle changes
since the start of the medication.

She has been holding her head a slightly more erect – -
those of you who have seen her know
she has been keeping it firmly to the left
so we’re excited to see her lifting it up and to the right
more on her own for longer periods of time.

She has been doing well with her swallowing.

They have been giving her water ice during her speech therapy sessions
and she’s been getting a little better each time.

Obviously she is still getting all of her nutrition though the feeding tube,
but we are happy to see her responding to the sensation of something in her mouth.

She is also beginning to make noise on a regular basis.

She’d previously made sounds very, very rarely,
but started to consistently make them last weekend.

Some family members visiting her noticed it Saturday evening,
and my parents, grandparents and some friends were able
to spend Sunday afternoon with her and hear her as well.

Her trach is not capped yet which means
it takes a lot of effort to produce noise at all
and we’re excited by another very small step forward.

The prophet Zephaniah writes,
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.”

We are praying that Emily can know this and have peace,
and that we too will be able to face the next month with confidence
knowing that our God is a mighty God able to save and to heal.

Please continue to pray with us
as we give thanks to God for having sustained Emily’s life
for the past three months while asking Him
to continue to restore her to us.
-heidi

I’ve been reading The Plenitude by Rich Gold,
and in it he talks about the subcategories of art as being
three hats that an artist could wear.

While reading it, I realized the same could be said for
both blogging in general and bloggers in particular.

read more at metagrinder

The latest from the Pray for Emily Facebook Group -
now at 1,624 members strong!

NEW UPDATE!!!
The results of Emily’s brain scans are in
and the doctors said that the results are “guardedly hopeful”.

They said that a normal person would score
somewhere between 8-12 and Emily scored a 6.

This seems low, but there is room for improvement
and this is not her final score.

So again, she is not out of the woods yet
but the doctors seem optimistic that
she could move up her score
and possibly recover or at least improve.

Emily has always been a fighter.
I have never known her to give up,
so lets keep praying that she stays strong
and continues to fight. – Wednesday June 18 (4:00pm)

*also, as of today they are starting
to wean her off of the ventilator,
today it was put on a much lower setting,
her breathing looks much more peaceful