Happy New Year! As we start this new year, we are going through lots of changes. We will be pastoring a church in San Vicente, about one hour from here in Ensenada. We hope to move the first part of February and begin our new adventure there. We will keep you updated as to all that is going on.
As for Jonathan, he is now 6 months old and growing all the time. We love watching him change and learn new things. We were blessed to have his first doctor's appt. for his hand last week, free of charge. We saw an orthopaedic surgeon, who specializes in hands. He looked at the x-rays, which we had taken the week before, and saw that two of the three bones are fused together and will have to be separated. However, the dr said that it is not a difficult operation. He will, however, need to have two surgeries. They cannot work on both sides of the same finger at the same time because of the loss of blood. He could risk losing his finger. They will do the first operation in about three months, and the second 4-6 months later. The doctor said that it is better to operate while he is so little because he can heal better and his brain still has time to learn the movements that his hand should make.
The dr also said that he will have to straighten the fingers and do a skin graft. The other possible problem is that Jonathan only has two bones in each finger, and there should be three. He is missing the outer bone on each finger. However, the doctor said that there is stil the possibility that it could grow. Please pray with us that God will add the bones after the surgery is done.
Thank you for continuing to pray. It looks like the doctor we saw will refer us to a free hospital, but we have yet to know the details. We ask for your prayers as we go through this process and for quick healing. Watch for more information soon.
God bless!
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