3 years ago continued

We were in that hospital for almost 5 weeks. She had 2 major surgeries and 2 ICU visits in that time frame as well as several other surgeries that weren't quite as major. The first major one was to do a skin flap which is deeper than a skin graft. This they took from her right arm which then in turn had to be covered with skin from her thigh. This was a touchy operation because they had to hook up blood supply to the front part which was included in the skin flap. She was in a isolated ICU room and under pretty constant supervision because of the magnitude of everything. The next major surgery was to put in nerves from her legs so that she would have feeling in the palm and fingers. They also installed little rods to hold open places for the tendons to go eventually. That surgery to replace tendons was done several months later and again were taken from her legs. Then about a year later she had surgery to remove scar tissue in order to gain more function of her fingers but the therapists we had at the time didn't really know how to work with her and so it felt like a loss until we got hooked up with another therapy place about 6 months later and then we began to make progress. Now we have been going there for over a year and have basically reached the potential she has currently. We were just to Pittsburgh again this week and the dr. is talking about possible surgery to restore more motion to her hand. We still need to continue with therapy for maintenance but at least we don't have to go every week anymore!!! At one time we went 5 days a week for around 3 months and some of the other times we were going 2 or 3 days a week. So once a week didn't feel so bad at first but now I am glad to see the time we don't even have to go that much. This month has brought back a lot of memories and sadness. But at the same time I can say that God has walked with us and that He has been faithful. There were times I couldn't find Him but that was my problem, not Gods. He has used this for a refining process in my life and tho I don't wish it on anyone I think I am at the point where I can thank Him for what He has done in the process of this whole accident. It is hard to see your daughter go through all this but I trust it will have a softening effect on her life as well. Pray for her that she can see God in the middle of all of this. The devil sure likes to wreak havoc where he can but God is GREATER than the devil and He will be VICTORIOUS.