First of all, I just want to say that God is so good! I’ve uploaded some cell-phone pics so you can see Alex (and Kristi, too) as we sat through the long test there at Arnold-Palmer Hospital for Children yesterday.

The doctors and the hospital were extra busy, so we didn’t get to see any of Alex’s doctors. And while we did not see any overwhelming physical signs of God’s healing of the mass in Alex’s brain or of her fingers, both Kristi and I felt comforted, had peace through the process, and were able to rest in the work that God is clearly doing. We both sensed in our spirits that God was doing something even while the test was being performed — and we’ll know much more next week, after Alex’s neurologist has had a chance to look at the images from this SPECT scan.

Thank you all for praying! … and we wait in expectation, continuing to pray with thanksgiving for the work that God is doing. 

- Andy

p.s. Here’s a few more photos of the testing:

Starting the SPECT scan

Helping the SPECT scan machine get as close as possible

It looks like Friday (tomorrow) is going to be another interesting day at the hospital. Alexandria is scheduled for what they call a “SPECT scan“, where the doctors inject a special dye/tracer liquid into her IV just before doing a CT scan of her brain. Then, depending on where the tracer concentrates in her brain, the doctors are able to zoom in on that specific area and see 3-D imaging of what’s happening.

This specialized test will be an out-patient procedure at Arnold-Palmer Hospital for Children, and should only take a couple hours. But we are also looking forward to the great conversations that we normally have in the hospital with Alex’s neurologist and/or neurosurgeon.

Please feel free to pass any part of this message on to others who are praying for Alex. Our family is praying for God’s complete healing … but in the medical world, Friday will be “step 2″ in about four steps of testing that need to be completed before the neurologist and neurosurgeon schedule brain surgery as a cure for Alex’s daily seizures.

Also, especially for those of you in the medical field, here’s a couple pages from Alex’s EEG monitoring last month.