BINGO

Hello Dear Friends, Thanks so much for keeping up with Abby's blog. It really means so much. She was not able to go home this weekend after all, but possibly this week. Even though we all want for her to go home, we know she needs to be stable first. She did have a complication this week. She See's little black dots. Abby's kidney failure causes high blood pressure which lead to Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES for us simple folks) which is where the seizures came from. PRES also causes swelling in the back of the Brain but it's totally reversible and in time the swelling will go away on it's own. All that being said the back of the Brain that has the swelling also effects our vision. The dots can either be part of the healing process or a possible non reversible scar to her vision. Please pray and believe God with me that Abby will be completely healed from the PRES with no permanent scars to her vision. I know God can do anything. Luke 11:5-13 is a passage about prayer. It tells a story about asking persistently gets you results and that's how we should pray. Abby's vision will be clear again and this is just part of the healing process. Ask and you'll get, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be open Luke 11:9. Sometimes in life there is nothing else we can do but pray. I've learned that a lot the last eight weeks.

Okay back to Abby now. She did talk to her best friend Genesis on the phone the other night and it made her so happy. It was so cute to see her smiling so much on the phone. She can't wait to go home, so Genesis can spend the night. She also looks forward to seeing her little cousin Ezra come visit her. He makes her laugh by doing the moon walk and tries to bet up her dad. Visitors mean so much to her, I can't explain it but it does. She could be having a bad day and be sleepy but when she knows a visitor is coming it perks her up. All of you that have came to see her thanks! Today one of my co-workers came to see her and her son was really touched by Abby. He sent a text out to all his friends telling them about her. How awesome is that. She inspires people just being her self.

This is how she inspired me this week. Friday, Abby was real tired and had no energy. I had been trying all day to get Abby out of the room, but she just was not feeling up to it. One of the Child Life Specialist Miss Destiny came and got Abby to go downstairs to play bingo. Miss Destiny was in need of Abby's assistance for her bingo cards. Abby went downstairs thinking she was doing Miss Destiny a favor, but little did she know what was going to happen next. She won bingo 16 times, you heard it right 16 times. What a smile on her face. Here is the best part. The final game of bingo was black out and Abby had her eye on the grand prize a huge dog stuff animal. She was not the winner of the black out game, but the little girl that won the huge dog stuff animal approached Abby when it was all over. She wanted a monkey that Abby had won in exchange for the huge dog stuff animal. I couldn't believe it, the monkey was like 4 inch big compared to the huge dog stuff animal. The girls exchanged and Abby was a winner again. I learned something that day, sometimes we have to put aside how we feel even when we have every good reason to say no, but take time to go help someone else out and there is a blessing on the other side. Abby really went to bingo so Miss Destiny wouldn't go alone and in return she was blessed. It's so neat how in any situation we can learn something. It made Abby perk up and ignited some energy in her. Abby ended her night by watching the movie Whip It. It's her new favorite movie. I think she wants to be the next babe ruthless. She is eager to break in her new skates now from Santa.

Abby being sick has allowed us to see the kindness of others. From her grandma's daily visits, to her uncle Huero's three phone calls a day to check on her just (SWEET) or the daily text, emails and facebook post I get from my sisters, family and friends asking about her, gives us the strength to get by. Our lives have changes so much these last eight weeks and everyday it changes more and more.

"When life is uncertain live in the moment, and make that moment the best you can!" Bridget Ornelas