In the past week or so we have become very concerned that Abigail may be having seizures. With her brain injury, she is at very high risk for seizure activity. What we are seeing is that when she startles she sometimes flicks her eyes, twitches her lip, and shrugs her arms. This has happened occasionally before, maybe weekly, but now it is happening about 10 times per day, that we observe, which leads me to believe that it may be happening even more frequently than that when we are not watching. The funny thing is that her heart rate does not increase, nor do her respirations change during these episodes, and those things typically go along with a seizure. So perhaps they are not seizures. We have scheduled and EEG for 2 weeks on March 3rd.
I have been very discouraged at this possibility. I feel like we have already been through brain injury due to lack of oxygen and worked so hard to come to the point we are at today, the possibility of further damage for the same reason is unacceptable. But God is still good. One thing that came to my mind is that hyperbaric oxygen therapy, an alternative treatment we had learned about shortly after the accident, is very successful in healing the part of the brain that causes seizures. Maybe God is trying to turn my head to see that it is time to consider some other treatments for Abigail. Also, many people have suggested that maybe what we are seeing is God forming reconnections in Abigail's brain. Kind of like a baby with an immature nervous system, Abigail has to start from the ground up. Please pray.
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Praise God that His Word overtakes the symptoms and doctor's reports. His Word says she is healed by Jesus' stripes. She is a blood-bought, redeemed, child of God. The enemy is bound and cast out and cannot return a second time in Jesus' Name.
Discouragement is bound in Jesus' Name and the joy of the Lord is our strength.
I praise God that Abigail is soaked in prayer and praise and thanksgiving during this time and always. She is completely restored and all things are renewed.
This is an attack, but the enemy is actually powerless unless we give up and quit. That will not happen.
I speak to seizures and command them to go and I speak wholeness to Abigail's brain in Jesus' Name.
Praise God for Mom and Dad's faith and patience that receives the victory for Abigail.
Shalom -- nothing missing, nothing broken.
Praying for healing, and for the family as you seek out the best treatments.
~Jessica
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." ~ John 14:27
Praying with you, for you, and for your precious Abigail.
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