What a Difference a Day Makes

The Lord revealed part of His plans for us on Wednesday.



We see His hand working in keeping us from going to Brazil and from moving to Acton.



A phone call from our doctor has put us further in to the unknown for the future, but thanks be to God who knows the future and holds all of us, including our daughter, in His hands.



In hindsight, we see now the reason for the length of time the doctor spent listening to our daughter's heart; why the technician doing the ultrasound on Tuesday called a second collegue in to confer; why we had to wait for a 1/2 hour afterwards before going home.



Our daughter has a rare genetic congential defect called "Dextro Cardia with situs solitus" - her heart is on the right side of her body instead of the left and the lobes of her lungs are reversed as well.



If the heart structure is normal, she will be completely healthy and only need a medic alert bracelet in case she ever needs CPR, defribillating, or a chest scan.



Some people with this condition have all their organs reversed and strangely enough, this is actually better because it means all the connections will be in the right place.



They did pick up some restricted blood flow on her scan so we need to go to Mount Sinai in Toronto for a fetal echo cardiogram to see what, if any, structural damage is present. With this condition, between 90 and 95% have additional heart defects. When all the organs are reveresed (situs inversus) the incidenct of heart defects is between 1 and 3%.



In all of this, the scripture reading from the Daily Light on Tuesday (see previous post) in more applicable now than ever.


"I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from Thee, when I was made in secret. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

It is wonderful to know that even now people around the globe are praying for our little girl. The fact that she does move so much is very encouraging. She's letting us now she's still here!

For those of you reading who know the Lord, we appreciate your prayers and will keep updates posted here as soon as we get them. At the moment we are waiting to hear when our appointment will be at Mount Sinai.

HE IS FAITHFUL!