Prayer Request.

I have a prayer request to all that read this blog. I have a girlfriend Reba who has a 12 year old daughter Morgan. The week of Thanksgiving Morgan had been complaining of a headache...and to make a long story short. They brought Morgan to Bronson Hospital while there they found a tumor on Morgan's brain. She had immediate surgery and after a couple rough nights things looked well. She was at church that weekend after being told she would not walk and talk.
Unfortuately things did not stay well, Monday Morgan returned to Bronson Hospital and has been there since. Morgan has had acerebral fluid leak and they had to put a lumbar drain in to relieve some pressure off her brain so that it will allow the leak to heal itself. If this doesn't work she has to go back in for more brain surgery to repair the leak. Any and all prayers would be a gift. We pray that this works. They are giving this 2-5 days but today the darn lumbar drain started leaking. This is a 12 year old yound lady. There Faith is strong and there attitudes are unbelievable. I ask you all to pray...pray...and pray some more!
This is the last email I recieved from Reba...this says it all:
I am having a hard time with this morning’s update as last night was the worst night she has had in this entire ordeal. The neurosurgeon told us last night that her drain was not working correctly yesterday, that is why it was draining so slowly. That is a complete different story from what he had told us in the afternoon. We weren’t too surprised because he hadn’t spent enough time with her to ascertain what was really going on. As a result he reconfigured her drain set up and set her to drain cerebral fluid 20cc every hour. This began at about 9 pm. The pain was horrifying. She was pleading for us to pray for her and vomiting. It was horrible. This went on for hours resulting in her heart rate and respirations bottoming and an exhaustion so deep she couldn’t even move. She was so exhausted that she requested they stop medicating her because it made it too hard to breathe. Our poor nurse was beside herself. By about 1 am they determined her heart couldn’t take anymore and they called the neurosurgeon. He allowed them to give her a 2 hour break from draining and dial back the fluid releasing to 10cc an hour. Finally, by 2 am she was resting. She has been resting rather peacefully since then. She awoke enough this morning to tell me that she didn’t want any more medicine because it frightened her so much last night. She was afraid she would stop breathing because she didn’t have the strength to breathe. I told her that they fixed all that to just rest. She told us she loved us, asked what day it was and when we told her it was Friday she said ,”Good Tessie (her best friend) might come today” and went back to sleep.


We pray last night was just a bump in the road. That would mean we are still on track to clamp the drain tomorrow and see if her body will not leak so that she could go home by Monday. A new neurosurgeon is flying in from Texas today and everyone here informs us he is great. We are looking forward to that. Who knew the secondary recovery time would be worse than having the tumor removed.