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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

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Emily Updates

Emily is doing very well at Moss – -
it’s nice to be able to visit with her in her own room.

The nurses on her floor and all of the doctors on her team
have been very encouraging as well.

Since the accident she has had so many wonderful caregivers -
we can’t thank these people enough for their dedication.

We’d like as a family to ask people to pray earnestly this week
that progress on Emily’s part would be steady and consistent.

We’ve been told it is very normal for responses to be inconsistent,
but we are praying that hers will at least occur frequently
when the doctors are working with her so that they can see first hand
things that the nurses and family members report.

My parents have asked me to share Luke 11:2-13
a passage that they have been reading regularly since the accident.
In it Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray
telling them in verse nine,
“Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.”

Many people have also been asking if Emily
is allowed to have visitors at Moss.

She is and we’d be happy to provide directions to Moss
and the times that she can have visitors.
Just let just know if you’d like to go see her.

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