Pacific Northwest Gardening: MY Charlize and her opportunity to live a wonderful life!, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
This is the battle they are going through with her next challenge. Just one day in a long 7 months of their battle. Please pray to get her through this. God is Jehova the one who heals!
Gearing up for Battle!
Posted 1 day ago
This weekend has been quite eventful. Each day has brought challenges of their own including an ER visit for both Saturday and today. On Saturday evening Charlize spiked a high fever of 102.7 so we had to take her into the ER to get her checked out and make sure she did not have any sign of infection in her blood. We have been noticing that at times she also has been having rapid shallow breathing, and when they were in the ER she was experiencing it, and had a high respiratory rate. It regulated on its own and was back to normal by the time they were ready to go, but we do not have any good diagnosis as to why this would be happening along with all of the other acute symptoms. They ran blood cultures, and took a stool sample while they pumped her body full of IV antibiotics. We were in and out of the ER on Saturday within 4 hours. That was a quick visit, and we were so blessed that it was an empty night for he emergency floor. Today we ended up back in the ER because while Charlize was playing the tubing broke that is connected to Toothless. Let me explain why this is a big deal and abnormal. Toothless is the needle that accesses her port and enables us to give her hydration , meds, TPN and Lipids through her central line. Attached to Toothless is a small piece of tubing that is about 5 inches long and attached to the tubing is a clave that allows us to connect all of her flushes and IV lines for hydration TPN etc. Directly above the clave is a clamp that allows us to clamp the line so it keeps a constant backpressure on the line and blood does not back up into the line. When her tube broke the clamp and the clave came off with it, so there was not way to clamp it off, and there was freedom for germs to access her central line and therefore her blood stream. The way Leia noticed that it had broken was that she saw blood spots all over the couch. By God’s grace and sovereignty my cousin Bridget was at the house helping Leia out, allowing Leia to focus on getting this taken care of without having to worry about Caedmon. She tied off the remainder piece of tubing to stop the blood flow and then proceeded to de-access Charlize. There was no way to flush her port because the clave was no longer attached, so Leia had to go into the ER to get re-accessed and flush the port to treat the clotting that happens when blood pools in the port. They arrived at the ER and were blessed to have an IV therapist already there waiting for them. They were able to get her settled in and re-accessed with little difficulty. Once she was re-accessed they flushed her port with the TPA (anti-coagulant) and then we wait for an hour for it to do its work. After an hour they were able to pull back and suck all of the clots out of the port and they flushed her full of heparin and she was ready to go.They drew labs again and ran the cultures with everything coming back clean, showing that nothing migrated through the open line when it broke. This type of break is very unusual in a line, and the staff said that they have never seen a line break like this before. Truthfully, I am tied of hearing that kind of response; though it is good to be a pioneer in some things, this is not the arena that I want to pave the way in. Regardless we accept it and acknowledge it as an area for more focused prayer. Once again we were blessed with only a 3-4 hour ER visit, and while they were there the nurse order both Leia and Charlize dinner and one of Charlize’s favorite nurses came down to comfort her and snuggle with her. Though it was a hard and exhausting evening we were blessed in many ways during the visit.

The info I shared above was the update on our current situation, the rest is going to be more of an update of my heart.

As I left the parking lot of our condo complex this morning, I passed the site of Charlize’s attack from the Pit Bull. As I drove on, I began to pray and just talk to Jesus about the strain and fatigue of my heart and asked Him to give me strength for this day. Immediately after praying that, he reminded me of this passage in Daniel chapter 6:
“So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!” A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed. Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep. At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den. When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?” Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.” The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. At the king’s command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones. Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly! “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
When I recalled that verse, I saw again the replay of the attack. As if watching the movie of the event in slow motion, I could see the fierce determination and evil glaze in the dog’s eyes as it charged Charlize, and how quickly and with such force that she was pinned to the ground. Then the supernatural intervened and God seized the dog, shutting its mouth and shutting it down as the owner (a small Asian women) ripped the dog off of Charlize. As I relived that moment in my mind’s eye God spoke directly to my soul, and said so clearly “Just as I sent an angel to protect Daniel and I shut the mouths of the Lions, I also was there with Charlize and protected her as I shut the mouth of that dog and pushed it off of her.” I began to weep because I remembered the welt on her cheek from the impact of the dog’s nose on her face, but the impact stopped there. All of us know that a Pit Bull pronouncing that type of behavior and aggression does not stop on a dime and pull off of a child when it has it pinned to the ground face to face. This is undeniably God’s hand of protection and grace. The second thing that God spoke to me is that the enemy is hard pressed to destroy Charlize, seed fear in us and steal our joy, but again I heard him speak to me, “I love her and I will continue to protect her, keep abiding in me and I will in you.”
I felt led to share this tonight, because I feel I heard so clearly from the Lord for two reasons. The first was to bring peace and encouragement. The second was to bring about a greater intensity of pray amongst all those who pray for us and support us. The past 3 weeks have been increasingly difficult, culminating with the dog attack, a high fever, and a broken line. I know that you all pray fervently for Charlize and our family, but as we approach this last round of chemo, I am sensing a fierce battle at hand. For Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Thanks cannot be expressed in an appropriate measure for the prayer and support that you all have blessed Charlize and our family with. You have been an active agent in the movement of God’s hand on her behalf, for her healing, protection and well being. We love you all.
God took pretty good care of this baby so we might be all allowed to participate in an eternity with LOVE, ACCEPTANCE AND FORGIVENESS.