Posted on 04/12/2012 2:46:13 PM PDT by mills044
The most humble of Prayers offered...
I’m glad that you found a doctor who was willing to go in and take that thing out. I hate the wait and see approach.
I’ll be praying for you and your wife. It sounds as though you are in good hands with the surgeon.
Praying for Nikki’s full recovery.
Praying for your wife! May God hold her in his arms, and may she come through this with flying colors - able to have many many years with you and your children.
I join in earnest prayer for Nikki!
Prayers said for your wife, and your family. For the Drs and the nurses and everyone involved. May our Lord Bless all of you with peace in this time of stress.
Mayo has a great bunch of Neurological guys, a friend's wife did a face plant on the way off a horse, and had she stayed in a local hospital likely would not have made it. The team at Mayo pulled her through with flying colors.
FOR WHATEVER IT MAY BE WORTH . . .
as I was praying in my bedroom just now for Nikki et al and the surgery later today . . . I felt the following in sequence . . .
1. I had a real warm, bright, positive feeing about the surgery.
2. My next thoughts/feelings were that I didn’t know what that meant. Better than dark, negative, cold feelings but could be interpreted many ways.
3. Then I felt a moderately intense inner conviction that Nikki is going to be very fine. That there will be minimal, IF ANY, residue or complications left.
4. That there will be joyful celebration at the end of it all.
5. That the experience of God being—somehow—very detectably with Nikki, the surgeons and support staff and with you close at hand who love her—will be greater than you’ve experienced before.
Anyway—FWIW—I continue to pray earnestly in y’all’s behalf as I will off and on through the night and day.
I don’t know why Nikki’s situation has excited me—my spirit is excited to see what God is going to do—is my only explanation.
Anyway—God be thickly with each one of you.
Perhaps others who discern similar things will be brave enough to say so.
CONTINUED prayers for Nikki
as I head back to bed for the next sleep jump.
BIG JESUS HUGS AND PRAYERS,
BTTT
Prayers to the Lord of Life, the Divine Physician.
Prayers up.
God bless and keep your family under His protective mantle.
Will be praying.
Lord Jesus,
We pray that is should please Thee to heal Thy servant Nikki, and we ask that Thou guidest the hand of the surgeon Ian.
To Thee be the glory.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
Thanks you so much! We are beginning the surgery now, and your words have brought us all great comfort. I will keep updating as info comes in... Your prayers mean so much to us, thank you for your kindness.
Prayer bump
AM AWAKE AND PRAYING AGAIN . . . OFF AND ON NOW, THROUGH THE DAY.
THANKS TONS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND FOR KEEPING US POSTED.
Am blessed and humbled my poor words brought comfort.
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS.
As I went back to bed, I realized I’d left a little bit out last post . . .
Have prayed and felt would be at least partially true that somehow, by God’s Grace, Nikki would find . . . as traumatic as it is . . . the whole experience quite interesting and that maybe the interesting would help relieve the traumatic aspect.
BTW, looking at my teacher’s text book . . . my impression from what little you shared in the OP is that they are dealing with an area roughly above her left ear?
Did they say what size the thing is? They must be concerned about her speaking center. Probably the hearing and seeing of words centers would not be involved??
Did they say how much of the motor area was implicated, at risk?
And is she left or right handed?
Am praying that whatever is left of the thing after all our prayers will be encapsulated and easily excised, harmlessly.
Am praying it will take significantly less than 8 hours.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WHOLENESS AND HEALING OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE ANOINTED SURGEON’S HANDS OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
THX THX for the update.
GENTLE HUGS, VIGOROUS PRAYERS.
Your estimate was right: above three inches above her left ear. The tumor is 2 centimeters in diameter- not huge, but right in the speech zone. Also some right sided motor skill activity there (Nikki is right-handed).
It was so surreal to hug her this morning and watch her then walk away down the long hall with her nurse.
Some rifts in our family have been set aside and everyone is either at or en route to the hospital. This thread itself brought Nikki much happiness last night, as I was tearfully reading it to her. We then prayed and read beautiful and hopeful bible verses of Christ Jesus healing the sick.
Will post more updates as the nurse updates us. How do I “update all” in this thread? I really want to keep everyone who prayed in the loop...
You’re doing fine on updating all.
Everyone who cares will read all the thread or scan for your name authoring a post. The ‘all’ function does not work.
Thanks for your kind reply.
OK, soooo a bit less than an inch . . . probably not a sphere . . . did they say how thick?
No biggy. The GREAT PHYSICIAN IS ON THE CASE.
I assume 2cm would mean they don’t need to take out a hugely big section of the skull to do the work??
I hope they have in-ear earphones for her so she can hear what they need her to hear but not everything else. LOL.
At least, that would be my preference. LOL.
What an adventure.
May God’s thick mercy, wholeness, healing, chase after her every moment of the way, in Jesus’ Name.
Thanks for the update.
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