Noia Update

March 04, 2010

Dear Friends and Family:

Noia is recovering very well! The last 24 hours have been an amazing time of miraculous recovery; she is very alert, moving her arms and legs, and even started to smile a bit. She does have moments where she is clearly in pain and she cries, which takes so much energy to do. They are giving her pain medication, which kicks in very quickly and helps. She is also hungry, which is tough because she cannot yet have any breast milk. After her kind of surgery, the doctors want her to wait a bit longer before getting her digestive system working. The concern is that it might put her body into shock. She is also not responding to the meds that help her to sleep/rest, so she’s awake and hungry a lot - the past 12 hours especially. We keep dipping a bottle nipple into some sugar water, which she devours! This helps to at least keep her calm and not get frantic for food. The main concern right now, however, is the fluid that has built up in her lungs. The doctors are keeping a close eye on it.

The two biggest miracles are that she can move her legs, and that the cardiologist declared her surgery a success! Hallelujah! From his point of view, the surgery corrected the constricted aorta and it seems her heart is functioning properly. Her blood pressure is still high, but this will take some time to stabilize. They are giving her medication for the blood pressure right now until it goes down.

For now, we are still in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU); we aren’t sure when they will move us into regular recovery.

Please continue to pray for Noia, for a complete healing and recovery. Specifically, please pray that her lungs will clear and for her hunger to not overwhelm her.

Please also pray for us and our other children, Oriah & Eden, who are at home and struggling through this as much as we are! May God give us His strength and grace to endure this to the end.

Please also continue to pray for Kohen and his parents, Barrett and Karen. Kohen is home from the hospital but is now under outpatient treatment at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. The doctors still have no idea why Kohen has lost his eyesight and are continuing to run tests. Specifically, Kohen will be having an eye exam under anesthesia today at noon. Please pray for wisdom for the doctors and protection over Kohen as he is sedated. Pray also that his parents would have wisdom in taking care of Kohen who cannot see and that they would be grounded in Christ's love, peace, patience, gentleness and kindness in the midst of this trial.

Much love,

Moran & Melissa Rosenblit