Samuel Update

Our hearts have been so encouraged and blessed by so many of you over the past five days. Thank you to those who have e-mailed, called, visited Samuel, brought us food, offered assistance for anything we might need and most of all to everyone who has been praying for us! God is so very good to us and we have much to be thankful for as we see God’s hand working so evidently each day.

Saturday was Samuel’s best day by far. He was fever free all day and was very perky. He woke up after a long night of light sleeping and immediately said he needed to stand up and get out of bed. He sat in the rocking chair for most of the day playing PlayStation, watching movies and reading books. He hasn’t complained too much about leaving, thankfully, since he has three more days to go yet. Friday night his SVT episodes started at 10:30pm and ended at 4:30am. For the most part he slept right through them but the frequency was between 10-20 minutes apart and enduring at the most for 2 minutes. So with the alarms sounding and nurses running in each time it was a long night for Noella. He only had a couple of episodes during the day yesterday. The doctor fully removed Samuel from medication at 10pm Saturday night so that there is time for his system to clear itself of the meds in order to make sure he can locate and ablate the problem on Monday. Therefore, we anticipate there to be more SVT episodes leading up to the ablation but are told not be concerned unless Samuel cannot convert on his own in a reasonable time. Munga (grandpa) spent the night last night with Samuel and we are thankful Samuel had a good night of sleep waking up at 8:30am!

Points of Praise & Prayer:

· Pray Samuel will be able to convert on his own for any SVT episodes that occur.

· Pray for Dr. Woefle who will be performing the procedure on Monday at 2:00PM and that

God would guide his hands in locating the problem quickly with a successfully outcome.

· Pray for patience, peace and understanding as we will explain to Samuel tomorrow morning what is going to happen.

· Praise Samuel’s fever is gone and that he is in good spirits.

P.S. Samuel lost his First Tooth yesterday. The Tooth Fairy even found him in the hospital. Here is a picture of the proud little guy with the sign he wrote: Samuel ‘s Tof [tooth]