Just thought I'd bring everyone one up to speed. We are 8 days away from surgery! I can't believe it's so close. This week we had a CT scan to make sure everything was fine and there were no infections that could delay surgery. Molly was such a trooper and was as agreeable as a baby who hadn't gotten a nap or eaten in 6 hours could be. She was even very silly when waking up from the sedation. Today we had pre-op at Dr. Hermann's office and he said the CT looked good, so we are all set to go for next week! Molly sure takes whatever we throw at her. Today during the appointment they had to pull wax out her ear, it didn't hurt but she was not happy and I had to hold her little hands and she cried a lot. I'm so glad that there will only be a few more times we have to allow pain and discomfort to be placed on our sweet girl. I just hope that these times don't scar her. I often pray during procedures that God will not allow her to remember and that it won't effect her long term. I think because she is so young it will be ok, but that's just where this mama's mind goes sometimes. So now just a week until God restores my sweet baby to hearing through the gifted hands of our surgeon. When you pray for us, don't forget to pray for our surgeon as well, he will have our precious Molly for 2-3 hours. They tell us that Molly should be fully back to herself and mostly healed within a week, but they still wait three weeks in order to activate the implant. So while the surgery is in a week, Molly's implant won't be turned on until May 24th. This also means that more than likely it will August or September when she gets her second implant.
Also a very exciting opportunity has been presented to us. 11 Alive wants to do a story on Molly! All of Atlanta will get to hear Molly's story and we are looking forward to sharing it. My prayer is that God will be glorified in us sharing and that maybe we can help some families going through what we have. So exciting times and challenging times are ahead for us, but it just feels unreal that they day we have been waiting for almost 8 months will be here!
