Serenity Hope: Update and specific prayer requests

I wish I had a happier blog to write this evening, but I do not. I wanted to write a second post for today because there are a couple of things that are new and some things that definitely need prayer.

One of the doctors in the NICU wanted to sit down with Ryan and me this evening for a consult. She wanted to talk about everything that is going on with Serenity currently and the worst case scenario for the issues she is having.

For now, the drain in her abdomen is working. We just have to wait to see if the hole is going to heal. I can't remember if I updated everyone on her brain scan in a previous post, but while doing the scan they found a suspicious area that could be blood or could be inflammation. They have planned to do another scan tomorrow to see which one it is. If it is blood, we look at possible future problems.
So our hope is that it was only inflammation. They also discovered that the vent tube was too far down in her lungs, and caused a portion at the top of the lungs to collapse because there was no air getting to it. So they have her laying on her side and have the vent repositioned to help the deflated area re-enflate. And lastly, they found a hole in her heart that hasn't closed yet, so she has a heart murmur.

Upon hearing everything we already knew, and hearing the new things that we didn't know yet, I was slightly discouraged. The more issues they add to the list, the more overwhelming it becomes. And then there is the last words the doctor left us with, and that is that we have to be prepared that things could go really bad at any moment. Serenity's condition is very fragile and critical. We really just don't know what might happen.

So my hope is that you all will lift up our baby girl in prayer. That we will all come together in the same mind with our requests to our Lord and Savior, and that He will hear our requests and that it will be His will to answer those prayers the way we hope Him to.

Here are the specifics that need lifted up in prayer:
*That the brain scan will be completely free of ANY suspicious spots
*That the lung will be re-enflated and working well
*That upon doing another heart echo, they will find the hole closed and not sign of a murmur
*That the hole in the intestine will be closed and healed
*That her body will be free of all infection
***And that God will work a miracle in Serenity, and make Himself known to everyone who knows her and her story

Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
    for my hope is in him.
⁶ He alone is my rock and my salvation,
    my fortress where I will not be shaken.
Psalm 62:5-6