MRI and Cardiologist Appointments Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 12:30 Lucy and I will be getting our first MRI. I've heard that MRIs are horrible if you're claustrophobic. Thankfully, I am not! I'm not expecting it to be too annoying other than laying still on my back for quite a while. At 3:00 I will meet with Dr. Kao, the pediatric cardiologist, to take another look at Lucy's heart.

Here are some things to pray for:
1. That the MRI would show us that Lucy has a good amount of lung tissue and no other new issues!
2. That her heart defect would be gone (the doctor said she was only 90% sure about what she was seeing!) or at least better that they previously thought.
3. That I wouldn't develop pre-eclampsia (Mosaic Trisomy 16 tends to have a 1 in 4 chance of causing pre-eclampsia in the mother).
4. That Lucy would continue to grow and stay in as long as possible to give her more of a chance when she does come out!


Thank you all so much for praying for us! Amanda, a sweet friend from our church, gave me a list of names of people from our congregation who will be praying for me from the time I enter my first appointment until the last one is done. (And she is due to deliver her baby girl this coming week!) I am so grateful to her and to all of the people who are devoting time in prayer for us. It is truly a blessing! Also, thank you so much to all of the strangers, turned new friends who have been so willing to share their lives and stories with us.

I was feeling pretty down last weekend about things and started to panic a bit. I was thinking about things though and decided that I've got to stay calm for several reasons: for my family, for my sanity, and because it is commanded of me by God! I started thinking about my son and how upset he gets when I take him to get shots. He gets REALLY mad when they give him the shot and looks at me like I'm so mean. He has no concept of the value of vaccination or preventative care. All he knows is that the person who is supposed to love and take care of him is allowing him extreme (but very temporary) pain. I allow him that pain because I know that it is worth it in the long run, and I don't try to explain to him the value of it yet, since I know he is not developmentally able to reason that far into the future. I think as humans we have to remember that God, our Father, is not stuck in time or space and is able to see what is best for us in the long run. Sometimes what is best involves periods of pain, sadness, loss, hardship, etc, but many times it is exactly these things that remind us to trust in Him and not in our own strength. That's what I'm hanging on to for now. I know I have yet to come to the difficult part of this journey, but I'm going to come back and read this and remind myself, because I know it's true.

Here's my verse for this post:
"So never worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34