August 12, 2009

Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 8:31 PM

LYDIA IS SCHEDULED TO GO INTO SURGERY TOMORROW AT 10:30 AM. We are grateful for all of your prayers. This is the current state of things in Lydia's life.

Her cultures came back negative for viral andbacterial infections. They put Lydia on a high-frequency ventilator which vibrates her lung to break up the mucous and keeps it inflated at a constant pressure to not let any other parts of the lung collapse. It is also gentler on the lungs and keeps the lung with the CCAM from over-inflating. It is working well and her left lung is clearing up nicely. The lack of infection, made the CCAM the sole culprit for causing the trip to the E.R.

We are excited to get the surgery done to get our little miracle home. They are going to try to get it out with a scope, thoracoscopic procedure, but if they are unable to do that they will make an incision, thoracotomy. The surgery will take a few hours since it is a small place to work making a thoracoscopic procedure longer than a thoracotomy procedure. We were prepared for an emergent surgery on day one so this is a better scenario than what we started with 22 weeks ago. God has been in control since before then and He remains in control. He brought Lydia through a birth that was not supposed to happen and He will get her through this surgery. It's been a pretty tough rollercoaster ride with good and bad news thrown at us in a short amount of time. We are overwhelmed with love from others--encouraging emails, phone calls and offers of help. Thank you!