Please Pray

Good (early) morning.

I am writing to ask you all to pray for Mackenzie.

We are still in Bethesda and spent most of the day in the ER of Doctors Community Hospital (the hospital where she had her surgery) where the doctors were trying to alleviate her headache.

They gave her a round of steroids and two bags of IV fluids thinking this was a "spinal" headache, which is not unusual after a spinal surgery.

It did not really help the headache much, but we came back to the hotel. The steroids did give her a little more energy, so we enjoyed a perkier Mackenzie for a little while.

I fell asleep before she did, but she woke me up telling me her legs were hurting. The pain continued to worsen in her legs and also started in her left arm. About 2:30 am, things were so bad we called Dr. Henderson. He graciously talked with me for over an hour and walked me through a battery of neurological tests to do on Mackenzie.

After thinking it through, he has asked us to meet him at Johns Hopkins ER at 7:00 this morning where he will do a lumbar puncture and more blood work to try to determine the cause of all this pain. He is trying so hard to help her, and you can hear almost parental frustration in his voice as he is at a loss right now.

Please pray for a successful lumbar puncture with no adverse side effects. Pray also for the cause of her pain to be found along with treatment.

We know we are in the right place, but we need the Lord to shed His light on this medical mystery.

Thank you all for praying!

Love,

Lisa