Wow! It's hard to believe that it has been almost 1 week since my last blog! Time has truly flown! The pictures I posted were of this past weekend at our Fall Festival, which was great! The upper left corner is of Hannah with her escort Hagen and Suzie, the Senior Queen candidate she walked for and her escort Cody. Is that not the cutest picture! And to top those off, look how cute Hannah was the night of coronation! She looked so beautifully precious. As you can see Ashtyn was quite proud to be "Hannah's sister" and I also had one that said "Hannah's mom". And my favorite picture is the one here to the left of Greg & Hannah. Hannah glowed! She loved being the center of all the attention!
Today we had the opportunity to meet with Ashtyn's Rheumatology doctors and they have decided to have her undergo a PET scan, to determine if there truly is no inflammation in her aorta & major vessels. If there is none, they are going to perform an angioplasty (insertion & inflation of a balloon to prayerfully widen her narrowings) in three different places of her aorta that are severely narrowed. The left ventricle of her heart has become enlarged because it is having to work so hard to push the blood through her vessels, so that is what they are wanting to help her heart with through the angioplasties. If inflammation is found, they plan on another 6 months of chemotherapy. All in all, Greg and I are very much at peace with this, we are going to cover her with continuous prayers and ask that His protection continue to flood over her precious body. The major concern with the angioplasty is that her aorta could actually tear during inflation causing emergency surgery to replace that section of her aorta. So we are praying for strong, yet flexible artery walls during this.
Today we also received a huge blessing! Our beagle & yellow lab have been missing since Friday afternoon, and as you can imagine we have been heartbroken with a 6 year old who has been way more heartbroken than us. Well, today Ash & I were on our way out the door to pick up Hannah school and here came Sparky (our lab) walking to the door. He looked horrible! So being the "calm" person I am, I freaked out crying and called the vet! So off we went to get Hannah and tell her the good news and to hurry home to be with him until his appointment. But the greatest, most awesome blessing of it all.....Hannah had the opportunity to witness an answered prayer, God's Omnipotent power and the power of faith! She has been praying faithfully day in and day out and today as we were on our way to the vet I asked her if she had thanked God for answering her prayers and she looked at me with the most precious smile as she petted her dog and said, "I already did!". Which then turned into a wonderful conversation of how amazing God is and that He hears our every prayer, no matter what it may be. I was able to remind her that we prayed it according to His will, not ours, and she said she was so glad that it was His will to bring Sparky home and said that if it isn't His will to bring Baby (the beagle) home to us, that He would keep her safe and provide her with a great home like ours! PRECIOUS and one of those amazing God moments for Hannah & I!
As I put the girls to bed tonight their prayers resounded with praise to Him for bringing Sparky home and prayed that he would be better real soon. (He has double pneumonia with a fever of 104) They also prayed that He would bring their daddy safely home from the Group Fellowship tonight! My heart is overflowing in awe of the precious, most amazing hearts that God has given them!
Father, I come to you in awe of Your love, strength & knowledge. Only a God like You could bless my heart the way You do day in and day out! Thank You for the precious angels you have blessed my life with, continue to guard their hearts with a love and compassion just like You. Bless Greg & Bryan as they are away from their families and I pray that You would be with us and Brenda as they are away. May we see with new clarity the mission and vision you have for us and our spouses! Your love amazes me! Thank You for answered prayers and child-like faith that You allowed to be restored in Hannah today! And as the girls say, God bless Sparky!
