Preston Update

Latest update:

Preston had to have an external shunt put back in on Wed. p.m. making that the 4th surgery in 1 1/2 weeks. Thurs. evening it started acting up and wouldn't work properly. The nurses fooled with the tubing and lowered the bag etc. and it started working, thank the Lord.
On Monday they are starting to clamp off the external shunt and see if the internal shunt will work. PLEASE PRAY IT WILL WORK!!! If it does, we can go home by Wed. If not, they have to go back inside of his head and see why it is not working. Also, the dr. mentioned that sometimes a person may need 2 shunts, one of each side, if the left and right ventricles do not communicate properly. He must have thought this was a possibility for Preston, to have mentioned it. But we won't know anything until Monday.

The Lord has supplied our financial needs through love offerings from our church, and individual friends. Also, the hospital is giving us some meal tickets and that helps too.

Preston is getting his strength back, and is getting up with help to go to bathroom etc. But he cannot sit up very long, because when he sits up, the external shunt has to be clamped off and soon the pressure builds up in his brain. He is tired of being in bed, but he has done soooo well in here. He has been joking and carrying on with the nurses, etc. If this external shunt will work and he doesn't have to have any more surgeries, he will be up and at it in no time.

Thank you all for your support and continue to pray for us.

Norma Gwen