Prayer Request - surgery

The surgery is tomorrow, Sept. 11 - the dear patient's name is Jackie. Please say a prayer for her, her surgeons, her parents and family. And, you know, if you could also pray for the surgical and hospital staff (including the cleaning crews - you can't imagine how important those people really are) - that would be most wonderful.

Here is an explanation of Jackie's surgery, and where she is in her development, from her mom:

It has been a while since I have updated everyone on Jackie's progress, so I thought her upcoming surgery would be a good time to catch everyone up. As most of you know, we have been 'patching' Jackie's eyes for the past year due to her diagnosis of strabismus and amblyopia. This patching was in hopes of delaying or even preventing surgery, but the progress was not as much as the doctors had hoped for - so we have eye muscle surgery scheduled for Tuesday, September 11th. This procedure is an outpatient surgery, so we should be home Tuesday night if all goes well. Please keep Jackie in your thoughts and prayers next week as she recovers from this procedure.

Jackie is 17 months old now and I can not believe how much she has accomplished in the past few months. She is still in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy with the Early Intervention Program, but is age appropriate in both speech and OT. Our area of concern at this time is her Gross Motor Skills (primarily walking) and she was fitted for a walker last week (8/28). She was also fitted yesterday for SMO Braces for both feet. SMO is the acronym for Supra-Malleolar Orthosis and is prescribed for patients who have soft, flexible, flat feet. We are hoping this will help improve her standing balance and walking. The braces are custom made, so it will be a couple of weeks before we have them.

Thank you all for your prayers tomorrow!