Sept. 9,
Switching to Facebook for all the updates on Olivia. Sorry, I just can't keep up with calling everyone. For those of you who don't know the full story..
Sunday evening Olivia was laying in bed looking at a small metal object she had found on her floor. Just as the object slipped from her fingers she yawned and inhaled it into her right lung. We have been trying to find a specialty Pediatric Pulmonologist who can get it out of her lung. She was supposed to have surgery in Lewiston this morning but the metal object is deeper in her lungs than they thought. Now we are looking at a surgeon in Spokane WA who will see her today at 1:00 and decide if he can do the surgery, if so he will probably do it tomorrow morning. If not we are looking at probably going to Seattle for a surgeon.
James is still in Wyoming for another week, I thought this would be pretty cut and dry and told him to stay because the surgery would be done before he could even get out here. The members of the church out here are awesome and have jumped in to take care of the other kids, cows, etc. I'll try to keep updates posted here. Please keep Olivia in your prayers
Sunday evening Olivia was laying in bed looking at a small metal object she had found on her floor. Just as the object slipped from her fingers she yawned and inhaled it into her right lung. We have been trying to find a specialty Pediatric Pulmonologist who can get it out of her lung. She was supposed to have surgery in Lewiston this morning but the metal object is deeper in her lungs than they thought. Now we are looking at a surgeon in Spokane WA who will see her today at 1:00 and decide if he can do the surgery, if so he will probably do it tomorrow morning. If not we are looking at probably going to Seattle for a surgeon.
James is still in Wyoming for another week, I thought this would be pretty cut and dry and told him to stay because the surgery would be done before he could even get out here. The members of the church out here are awesome and have jumped in to take care of the other kids, cows, etc. I'll try to keep updates posted here. Please keep Olivia in your prayers
Update on Olivia:
Surgery tomorrow morning at 8:30 in Spokane' The Pediatric surgeon isn't very hopeful that he will be able to get it by going down her throat. It is starting to look like they will have to go into her lung through her chest wall. Praying, praying that he is wrong and that won't be necessary. Worst case scenario, he mentioned maybe having to take part of her lung, but we aren't even going to go there!!!!! Too many positive prayers on her behalf for that to happen. Thanks for all the love sent her way!.
Surgery tomorrow morning at 8:30 in Spokane' The Pediatric surgeon isn't very hopeful that he will be able to get it by going down her throat. It is starting to look like they will have to go into her lung through her chest wall. Praying, praying that he is wrong and that won't be necessary. Worst case scenario, he mentioned maybe having to take part of her lung, but we aren't even going to go there!!!!! Too many positive prayers on her behalf for that to happen. Thanks for all the love sent her way!.
September 11, 2014
update on Olivia:
She's home now and doing well. The surgeon was able to get the object out without cutting into her lung. He told us that he had tried for almost an hour to get it out without success. He finally turned to the other surgeon and told him, there's nothing else I can do, we are going to have to cut open her chest wall and go in. Just as he finished saying it, the metal object shifted... and slipped right into his retrieval tool. He said that the other surgeon who is a deeply religious man said, "Did I really just see what I think I saw?"
I told the surgeon, you have no idea how many people were praying for this little girl.
So thank you all for your prayers on her behalf. They really did help her!
She's home now and doing well. The surgeon was able to get the object out without cutting into her lung. He told us that he had tried for almost an hour to get it out without success. He finally turned to the other surgeon and told him, there's nothing else I can do, we are going to have to cut open her chest wall and go in. Just as he finished saying it, the metal object shifted... and slipped right into his retrieval tool. He said that the other surgeon who is a deeply religious man said, "Did I really just see what I think I saw?"
I told the surgeon, you have no idea how many people were praying for this little girl.
So thank you all for your prayers on her behalf. They really did help her!
Olivia on her first day of school, posted Sept. 4, 2014
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