Apr 21, 2007 Update on Lily
// April 21st, 2007 // Lily Rush
We would appreciate your prayers for Lily this coming week. We are headed to Boston, MA from 4/24- 4/27 to meet with a urologist there regarding Lily’s impending kidney surgery. As you know, because of kiney reflux, we have been told this is imminent. Through internet research, we found that they have been doing this procedure robotically since 2001 at Children’s Hospital of Boston. If this can work for her, it would mean only five small incisions rather than the large opening and subsequent scar we were told to expect. That, in turn would mean a less painful process of recovery and a more rapid one as well. We vote for that! I’m sure that we’ll be answering a lot of the same questions over again and probably repeating some of the same tests, but we are praying for a definitive answer. I am also hoping that the procedure could be done sooner than later. The older she is, the more she’ll be frustrated about immobility and recovery… and we’re more than ready to move on with her life.
One of the greatest blessings of watching Lily’s situation continually improve in recent months has been to hear how many little children have been drawn to prayer – fervent prayer – on a consistent basis for Lily. Testimonies of whole classrooms of children, and little ones at home every night before bed, calling out to God on Lily’s behalf. The prayers of children, I believe, are a huge part of where she is today.
