Prayer Request Update

My last post was a prayer list, here is an update to some of those.

My brother came thru his surgery and found that it was not as bad as they had first thought. He is home recovering. He has since had a dr. appointment where they removed every other staple. Next dr. visit he will have the remaining staples removed.

My surgery last Thursday went well. I am doing well and home recovering. I see the dr. on the 25th for my follow up appointment.

My cousin Christy's friends little girl that was bit by there dog sent an update, here is part of that email:

i just wanted to update everyone. i had lunch with stacy and ashlyn today. we stopped there after our mom's group/school at the kids' insistance. their other choice was a soft pretzel at the mall. this means they really love ashlyn!! haha

she looks great considering the circumstances. the only pics stacy had of the injury day were ones from her cell phone and WOW it's a world of difference from the injury until now. she is playing and acting great and her marks are healing so quickly. the before pictures we saw with the swollen and sad little girl are now replaced with a smiling dancing girl who crawled through tunnels and mimicked my kids. the injury is on the right side of her head mainly and the little wounds from the teeth marks are almost disappearing. the stitches will come out next week and let me tell you - that dog got her good just beyond the hairline. the saving grace is that she's healing unbelievably well and that makes me sooo thankful for any little prayers you said. the bruises are still there and stacy has no idea why the dog did that to her and it's a sad situation since she had to lose her dog in all this, too. she has to keep reminding herself what he did that caused him to go. the saddest thing, too, is that it was totally out of his character to do anything like that.

she also said that the trip through the library to the fire station was so helpful since when the ambulance arrived she was familiar with one of the faces that showed up - AJ from the firestation who did the tour. what a blessing! she said seeing him immediately put her at ease and after they checked her over they said they were pretty certain there was nothing so deep that it punctured her eye or got to her brain. when they got to sparrow hospital there were approximately thirty people waiting to fix up her baby! that was also a relief. ashlyn is not bothering the stitches at all and although she had a VERY rough second nite *(first nite the sedatives helped her sleep) second nite she was up every half hour...but despite that she's back to normal and played peek a boo with me and laughed and showed off those adorably perfect dimples! i also want to add that i think that the work the plastic surgeon did on her nose will make it hard to tell this ever happened. praise God!

Thank you all for your prayers and for your well wishes.