Well, Leia is now considered out of danger as far as brain damage goes. She’s laughing when her cousins make comments about her blue hair, asks if anyone else was hurt in the accident, and if she’ll be able to take pictures again among other things, so she’s all there. She really doesn’t like her breathing tube, and it’s been a source of frustration for her, but it sounds like she’s calmed down in the last day about it. The eye specialist said there is still bleeding in both eyes and so they can’t say one way or another, or even know a time frame for when they’ll be able to know anything, so it’s a waiting and praying game. Her surgery for everything else is today (Friday) at 9am, so please pray lots for everything. It’s been amazing to see how many people are in prayer for Leia – literally hundreds of people, all over the world, from every continent except Antarctica (and who counts that one except the scientists anyway?). You don’t realize how many people you’re connected to in small but significant ways until you start getting emails of encouragement and assurances of prayer from all over the world. Or how big our family of Christ really is.
On that note, I do have another prayer request – Andrew is the younger brother of one of my best friends, and I’ve known them both since I moved to Abbotsford in the second grade. Andrew was in a car accident this week as well. Both his knees were hurt badly, though I don’t know to what extent, just that it sounded bad. I will try to get more details soon, but please be praying for him, and his family as well. Alan, his older brother, is in China, so we’re both going through the ‘not being able to be there’ feelings. Not easy for eldest siblings. Thank you again, everyone, for your continued prayers.
