Hospital Day #7 - 12/5/23 PM - Pre-Operation Details

Hospital Day #7 - 12/5/23 PM PRE-OP

Brittney’s surgery to repair her carotid & vertebral arteries with stents just started! It will probably take 2-3 hours and then she’ll spend the night in the ICU.  We are so grateful for your prayers!

She has been very nervous, weaker and more tired recently.  But still no signs of stroke! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 She is just ready to get the surgery done and to feel better 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Here is what they are doing regarding all (4/4) of the arteries that supply blood to her brain (diagrams attached may be helpful too):

• 1-2 stents (& angioplasty/balloon expansion) in her torn & 60% blocked (with pseudo aneurysm) right carotid artery (side of neck into brain)
• 1 stent (& angioplasty/ballon expansion) in her torn & 73% blocked (with pseudo aneurysm) right vertebral artery (from top section of spine into brain)
• Her left vertebral artery is 100% blocked and inoperable - but we’re praying that the Lord reopens it over time!
• Her left carotid artery is irregular with a small tear and pseudo aneurysm, but currently has no blockage so no stents are needed at this time 

Here are some ways to pray:

• For a successful angioplasties (balloon expansions) and emplacement of the stents
• For no strokes or brain damage during or after surgery
• For skill, wisdom, and discernment for the doctors and nurses to see and do everything that needs to be done
• For Brittney’s full healing and recovery with no future complications, arterial tears, blockages, aneurysms, or strokes
• For peace of mind and God’s comfort for our daughters during the surgery, recovery, and into the future

Thank you so much for your encouraging words, love, and prayers!!

 Philippians 4:6-7 “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. [7] And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Hospital Day # 7 - 12/5/23 AM - Brittney's Pre-Op Theme Verse

Hospital Day # 7 - 12/5/23 AM

Brittney wrote this…

We’re ready! God is with us! Thank you again for all the prayers! Jonathan Logan Carl will be posting updates here and on his page! The procedure will take 2.5 hours and I will be away from Jonathan for about 5 hours total.

Hospital Day # 6 - 12/4/23 - Brittney's Thoughts

Hospital Day # 6 - 12/4

Brittney wrote this…

I don’t even know where to begin…the last two weeks have totally rocked my world. Never did I ever imagine being in the position ready to have surgery tomorrow at 10:00! I’ve never been one to put my health first, there’s too many others to care for. I have been forced to do that and I’m so thankful I did because there’s a good chance I wouldn’t be here today had I not. I listened to the still small voice urging me to do various things (and the not so small voices through friends and family who know me and that I need nudging sometimes). 

Thank you for all the prayers, texts, calls, verses, songs, flowers, cards, so many things you have done on my and my family’s behalf! I’m not going to lie, Satan is a booger and keeps creeping in my thoughts, but God is so much stronger! He has carried me and made all the steps work together to be where we are now. He is so good and I am so thankful! 

We covet your prayers tomorrow at 10:00 please! Pray for the surgeons, for my family and their concerns, for our precious girls as they are worried about mom, for my hubby who has been by my side advocating and researching as he always does to make sure every detail is covered, for my arteries to cooperate and it to be an easy fix and recovery and for my nerves to calm for a good nights rest and complete assurance in the God who made our bodies so intricately detailed as well as drs skilled to treat them! We have an amazing God and He is holding me in the palm of his hand! I love all of you so much and pray you feel the hand of God holding you no matter what you are going through and please listen for his still small voice! 

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

And he said, "Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.

1 Kings 19:11-12