Hey everyone, unfortunately, I am back to needing prayers again for my daughter. She had her first appointment this morning with her brachial plexus expert and we got some bad news. He reviewed the findings of the MRI taken at Wesley at it now appears that there is a severed nerve in her shoulder as well.

She has no ability to use the shoulder and we had just thought it was the swelling/brachial plexus nerve issues causing problems with the shoulder.

She is scheduled for surgery at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. At this time he just doesn't know what kind of function could be returned to the shoulder area until he gets in and takes look. The plan is to take a nerve from her leg and transplant it to the shoulder nerve. He is speaking with the plastic surgeon today to see if he can complete the ear reconstruction tomorrow morning while she is under for the shoulder. She has her appointment with him this afternoon and we should know more about the ear then. She will be in the hospital for a minimum of 1 day following surgery. Hopefully, that will be all.

With regard to the brachial plexus injury that is causing the issues with the lower arm/hand, he does believe she may very well have full return of function to the hand after 9 months to a year of physical therapy. He does think her hand progress since surgery has been a good indicator.

She was pretty inconsolable after the appointment this morning.

for everyone and for all requests.

Praying

Prayers needed for my son... He got a really bad burn on his right hand... cooking accident he reached in to pull out a pan from what he thought was a cold oven, but it wasn't. It burnt him real bad.

Please pray for John.