First, I would like to thank everyone who was praying for Rose Nacheca! All of your support is greatly appreciated.
Rose Nacheca is home. She did just perfect today. The perfect little patient. Unfortunately, the surgery was not a success. To say that this was a disappointment is a HUGE understatement. I think my heart broke a little bit when the doctor said he was unable to fix hers. Okay, it broke a lot! They were able to get the patch in place and it stayed in place just like it was supposed to. Unfortunately the hole was rather large for her little heart. The patch was pressing on her artery and they had to remove it.
One funny thing that happened this morning is when they gave her the medication that was supposed to relax her and it made her really cranky. Everyone who walked into the room she would look at and tell them to get out and shut the door. If they would not leave she would say to me "Mom tell them to go away and shut my door!" It was very funny.
This was not really the Valentines day we had in mind. We were hoping to be celebrating a successful surgery and a newly improved heart inside of our special little Valentine. But instead we get to spend the evening at home with the other three kids eating the Valentines cake they decorated with grandma this afternoon. That is equally sweet.
Monday March 14th Rose Nacheca will go in for open heart surgery to complete what they tried to accomplish today. This will be a more difficult procedure and 5 days in the hospital, 3 in the ICU. Your continued prayers would be appreciated.
We love you! Happy Valentines Day!
As great as our disappointments are, and even greater sometimes is our lack of understanding why our Great Big GOD didn't allow things to happen the way we thought they should and especially with oh, so many prayers going up.
ReplyDeleteOur tears are many and our heart is very heavy in times like these, But ~ we must go on ~ trusting, believing, in our Sovereign God, who DOES know all. We shall continue to praise you Father, and trust in YOUR judgement, and not what seems to be the right and obvious answer from Our viewpoint. We Thank you Lord, for being in control, you who LOVES ALL, above anything we can possibly imagine. God Bless you Little Rose Nacheca.
We just came from Haiti and OLTCH and heard about Rose. We will be praying.
ReplyDeleteRob and Jackie