Our Sweet Girl: Please Pray for Amelia on Monday

We found out on Friday that Amelia's CT scan will take place this coming Monday, Feb 11th. The craniofacial surgeon explained that it is standard procedure to do a scan like this at about six months post-op. It will be used to get a more detailed picture of how the plates have shifted/re-grown after the surgery and it will be compared with a scan taken when Amelia was only a few months old.

The scan itself it painless, however the tricky part is in getting an almost one year-old to hold still in a very unfamiliar situation. They are prepared to use "sedation" if necessary (given through an IV), although last time around she was still enough that it could be avoided. In case they do need to sedate her, she will have to fast for six to eight hours before our arrival time of 10 am (although they said she can have clear fluids up to two hours prior).

So our number one prayer request for this event is that the scan can be done without sedation. If sedation is necessary, we pray that they would be able to find a vein quickly and with minimal trauma for Amelia (they had a lot of difficulty with this during her pre-op blood draw and during the surgery). We are also praying for peace and freedom from fear for Amelia during this procedure.

You would think after all we have been through with Amelia this year, something like this would be a piece of cake, but I've managed to find lots of ways to worry about it in the days leading up to it.

God has been so wonderfully faithful to Amelia and to us. The other day I accidentally snapped this picture of her head from above and I wanted to share this view with everyone. As Amelia has been doing the finger-holding walk a lot these days, this is a view I get a lot of the time and I am always struck by the beautiful gentle curve of her forehead and the fact that her scar is almost completely covered by her soft brown hair. What a miracle!

February 2008, 5 months post-op