Potential Operation Date Soon to Be Determined

Hi Friends,

Yesterday was a big day for little Cordelia...she GIGGLED! Oh how I would love to be closer so that I could hear that sweet giggle. It's funny, there is so much going on with her that I think it is sometimes easy to forget that she is just a sweet little girl who is supposed to be working towards normal baby milestones...like giggling, and cooing and babbling. Cliff called me yesterday like such a proud Dad (and proud he should be!) to tell me that Cordelia giggled...

She also had a blood transfusion yesterday, which is a much more serious matter, but Cliff thinks she may have been feeling a bit better from the addition of the blood, which helped put a smile on her face.

A bigger piece of news connected to a BIG prayer request...an operation date is being set for Cordelia and Dani sometime in mid-August. Cliff said he is thinking somewhere around the 16th-18th.

What does that mean?

It means that the Doctor's feel like it is not worth waiting any longer than that for Cordelia to get a liver because her health will only continue to decline and the more it declines the more complicated surgery becomes...Sigh...

So...it means that on that date, if a liver hasn't come in before then (we are praying that one does!!!!) Dani will undergo surgery to have one quadrant of her liver removed and while she is undergoing surgery Cordelia will be prepped in another surgical room for the transplant.

There are some complications to doing it this way-- first and foremost Cordelia and Dani would BOTH be then recovering from major surgeries on different floors of the hospital, which would be hard for Dani and Cliff.

Secondly, Dani's liver is not ideal, but it is usable. It is not ideal because there are what the doctors call "vascular anomalies", which basically means she has quite a few more veins around her liver than usual and it makes it a little bit more complicated to remove.

Dani's friend Joyce is also in Cincinnati (with Dani's mother) this week. Joyce is being tested to be a living donor as well...Typically they like to use a parent's liver if they are going to use a living donor, but if Joyce's is a better match it may be a good option.

So, please join me in praying over the next couple of weeks....Please tell everyone you know, especially those prayer warriors in your life to be praying for Cliff and Dani and Cordelia. It takes my breath away to think about how major and challenging all of this is. Our real hope is that a perfect liver comes in for Cordelia in the next two weeks so that Dani can be available to be with her after her surgery and not recovering from her own.

Psalm 31:14

But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."