Prayer Requests

Ellie and I decided to blog about her jaw surgery and recovery. I have read many blogs from others having jaw surgery and have found many of them helpful. So, maybe, we can also be helpful to someone down the road, that is also facing jaw surgery. 

I wanted to reach out and ask you to please add Ellie to your prayer list. As you may know, Ellie is scheduled for orthognathic surgery at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital on Tuesday, May 20th. She will be undergoing an 8+ hour in-depth procedure where they will breaking her lower jaw (Sagittal Split Osteotomy) & cutting her upper jaw (Le Fort Osteotomy) then will be harvesting bone from her pelvic (hip) to place in her upper jaw. This is to correct her overbite, cross-bite and align her jaws properly.  She will then be on a liquid/soft foods only diet for 6+ weeks while she is wired/banded shut. She will also come home using a walker - because of the healing of the pelvic bone and to decrease the chance of falling.  I ask that you pray specifically for the following...
• Pray for God's hand over the whole process, and for Ellie to feel His peace throughout this process. 

• Pray for the surgeons and staff that will be caring for Ellie. 

• Pray they will make the best decisions leading to the most favorable outcome for Ellie.

• Pray for no complications, infections or blood transfusions during or after surgery. 

• Pray for her pain to be under control and tolerable. 

• Pray that her nausea is minimal or preferably non-existent

• Pray for her recovery to be remarkably fast. 

• Pray for her weight loss not to be extreme and that when she is able to eat again she gains weight back quickly.

• Pray that after the surgery she does not fall or has any injuries that affects her jaw or pelvic bone. 

• Pray that her determined, fun, always on-the-go personality will shine through and help her recover faster. 

I can't thank you enough for keeping us all in your prayers in these coming weeks. As a Mom, this means the world to me knowing others are lifting Ellie up to our Heavenly Father, the greatest physician. I'll keep you posted.

Love, 

Michelle