Prayer for Janessa

In the grand scheme of things, I tend to think we are pretty lucky. Yes, Janessa was born with a cleft palate, but it can be fixed. I feel bad for her because of the pain it causes her ears and because when her food comes out of her nose, it is probably fairly uncomfortable but really...her problem can be fixed and therefore we are blessed.

Sometimes this causes me to not ask for prayer when maybe I should. If other people are struggling with much bigger things than why should I bother people with what is going on in our home. Well...enough of that...we could use some prayer!

2 weeks ago, Janessa was diagnosed with her 5th ear infection (this one a double one). They put her on an anti-biotic which she finished this past Friday and I hoped this would be her last one before her surgery to correct this problem once and for all. However, she didn't really seem to be better. She has still been tugging at her ears, yesterday she started coughing and last night she woke up crying a few times (usually she sleeps a solid 11 hours). So...off I carted her to the doctor today for what I thought was another ear infection. Only, it wasn't. Her ears are still congested and are constantly susceptible to infection but the doctor was more concerned with her cough. He said it sounds like RSV.

Great.

My mind immediately went back about 3 years ago where I stayed with Libby for a week at Strong Hosptial. She had RSV and was only 6 weeks old.

Libby Grace with RSV in February 2010

So after that 20 second panic attack, I came to my senses and realized that Janessa is older and it probably isn't going to go down the way it did with Libby. 

He continued to tell me that RSV gets worse until day 5 and that if she indeed has RSV, the cough can last up to 6 weeks

Great.

Her surgery is scheduled for exactly 3 weeks and 2 days from now. Apprently if she does have RSV and the cough does persist, her surgery may have to be rescheduled!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So....We would covet your prayers that:

a) Janessa does not have RSV, just a virus or soemthing else

or

b) If it is RSV, that it would resolve quickly and not effect her surgery date.

In the meantime. We will be keeping her with us at all times. No more nursery at church (sorry Nursery workers...I know she is fun!) I know that we can't hide from all germs. We could pick something up at the grocery store just as easily as other places but for now, we will just keep our baby girl with us until we can get through all of this fun! 

Thanks for your prayers...and for reading this long post!