Josephine's Situation

Hi Friends,

Thanks for your prayers. Here's some new info. I found out the doctors' names. And more details on the surgery.

1. Dr. Stewart, Otolaryngologist, Head & Neck Surgery & Microvasular Reconstruction specialist. He'll be doing these 4 things: 1) removing the non-functional left eye ball & clear the tumor around the eye ball 2) saw through the left forehead & left cheekbone in order to remove tumor & replace with platinum 3)Take off 12×2 cm muscle & smsall blood vessels & nerve from left leg to implant into the eye socket 4) make an incision from the left ear to the left shoulder for re-connecting blood vessels. Dr. John Kim & Dr. Paul Kim, Facial Plastic Reconstructive surgery & Craniomaxillofacial & cranial base Surgery experts will be assisting Dr. Stewart.
2. 1/29 my mom will have an appointment with the Anesthesiologist for pre-admission check-up (heart, lung, blood, EKG, etc. tests). He will also determine the location of the tumor & the amount of anesthetic to use.
3. 1/30 My mom will check-in at noon and will do a MRI & an Embolization procedure with Dr. George Luh an Interventional Neuroradiologist. He will insert tubes from the right leg & the abdomen into the main blood vessels circling around the heart, neck & into the brain area where the tumor is to prepare for the next days surgery in case of hemorraging, then all the emergency procedures will be in place to help stop the bleeding. I will fly down to be with my mom on this day in the morning and come back at night.
4. 1/31 The main brain surgeon is Dr. Frank Hsu. He's a Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgeon & he’s also a Christian. he will be responsible from cutting the skull from the left ear to the right ear & removing 70% of the tumor.

Please pray that:

1. My mom will recover her eysight fully in her right eye & that she can hear again in her left ear & be able to smell again—for God's complete healing.
2. On 1/23, my brother, Joshua had a lung collapse episode while sitting in class at Duke University. We have prayed against this spiritual attack & praise God that he is feeling much better and had not needed to be hospitalized. Please continue to pray for his healing & for his faith to be strengthened.
3. Please pray that my youngest brother, Caleb, will be healed from his sinus infection as he has plans to head down to LA today/tomorrow to be with my mom & dad.
4. I have plans to fly down on 1/30 & again on 2/2-3. Please pray for Jonathan as he takes care of the the kids, especially Ethan for it'll be his first overnight without me (& without nursing) on 2/2.
5. Please pray for all the above procedures & pre-operation appointments, that everything will go smoothly & that the anesthesiologist will have the right amount of medication for my mom. Pray also for the Hematologist to have the wisdom to provide the right amount of blood thinner/thickener for my mom in order to prevent the clotting that happend 5 years ago when she had her first brain surgery.
6. Pray for no side-effects & a speedy recovery for my mom.
7. Pray also for living arrangments, food & help & other logistics during her recovery phase.

And please praise God with us for we know that He hears our prayers & may He be glorified through all this.

Thank you,
Nia