Pls Remember to Pray Tomorrow Morning Asia time/Wed Night U.S. time

Dear all,

The week has really flown by since we met with the surgeon last week. I almost can't believe that Isaac's surgery is going to be tomorrow. Isaac looked good when we saw him last night. We were allowed to give him some of my milk using a Q-tip stick and he really, really enjoyed it. He really tried to lick the Q-tip soaked with my milk and was almost smacking his lips!!! ^_^ He weighed 1,132 grams yesterday and his CRP/infection score was 0.2. I am hoping that we will learn that his CRP is at zero or 0.1 today when we go this evening. I have been having difficulty staying awake to update our blog after I finish taking care of everything at home and for work after we return home from the hospital each night so I am going to post our specific prayer requests now just in case.

Isaac's surgery is going to be tomorrow morning Japan time. We know its going to start after 9 am although we don't know exactly when. It sounds like it may start somewhere between 9:30 or 10:00 am but we are not sure (that would be 8:30 pm or 9 pm EST on Wednesday night). So please pray for Isaac's surgery tomorrow morning (Thurs June 22) Asia time / Wed June 21 evening EST.

Here are our specific prayer requests for Isaac's surgery:

1. for God to guide the hands of the surgeon, anesthesiologist, other doctors and nurses
2. that Isaac will tolerate the general anesthesia well and will wake up quickly from it
3. that the surgeon will only cut the parts he is supposed to cut and not accidentally injure or cut nerves or other nodes that he is not supposed to
4. that the surgeon will be able to be able to quickly and succesfully double ligate Isaac's PDA without any complications or too much bleeding, that Isaac's PDA will be firmly closed once and for all and that the surgeon can close up quickly and successfully
5. for Isaac's breathing, oxygen saturation level and blood pressure to stay stable through out the surgery
6. that after Isaac's PDA is closed, the left chambers of his heart will go back to normal size and Isaac's PFO will close on its own
7. that Isaac will recover quickly from the surgery, including recovery from the position the surgeon will need to put Isaac in for a long term during the surgery, healing of the wounds from the surgery and that he will not develop any infections or other complications post surgery
8. that Isaac's digestive system will recover quickly so he can resume intake of nutrients and milk soon after the surgery
9. That the surgery will help Isaac's CLD to heal quickly so that Isaac can breathe on his own soon!
10. Most importantly, for Isaac, Jong and I to stay close to our Lord's heart through out and after the surgery so that we can be a family firmly centered on our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you very much for your prayers. We will try to update from the hospital when we can. We expect his surgery to take all morning and may be even the early part of the afternoon so we may not be able to update till later in the afternoon, especially if we are allowed to spend some time with Isaac inside NICU.

I had wanted to post some pictures from last night's visit but can't do that right now. I will try to put up some pictures later if I can.

Take care and God bless,

Sonia