Pray for Meredith

This afternoon Meredith got to enjoy this unusual cool weather outside during recreational therapy with therapists Larry and Carly.  On our way back inside we passed a PICU resident who we hadn’t seen since leaving the PICU.  I will never forget him because late in our PICU stay he had a serious talk with me about the uncertainty of Meredith’s outcome.   At that point she had been weaned off of two sedating seizures meds, Versed and Pentobarbitol.  She was on several other meds but they had expected to see more alertness from her which they weren’t seeing.  This doctor basically said they didn’t know how alert she would become or what her prognosis was; he tried to prepare me for the worst, but agreed with me that we should hope and pray to God for healing.

He was stunned when he saw Meredith today walking the halls.  He bent down to her and asked her how she was and she answered, “Good.”  He looked up at me and said, “Praise God!”  He was tearing up and quite literally amazed as he walked away.

“Publish his glorious deeds among the nations.  Tell everyone about the amazing things he does.  Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! He is to be revered above all the gods.”  Ps. 96:3-4