Heading to Surgery Friday

We are waiting, waiting to hear back from our local hospital as to when Joshua's dental surgery will be this Friday. The dentist is guessing it will be the first surgery at 7:30am. If all goes according to plan, the eye specialist will examine Joshua's eyes for glaucoma and visual acuity just as Joshua goes under sedation, and then the dental repairs will be done.

Joshua's blood work and stool tests all came back normal! :-) His China TB test was within international standards, but a repeat TB test here was positive :-(. His lung xrays are clear of TB, so we're waiting to find out if it was a false positive, or he has latent TB that needs 9 months (!) of medication to prevent a possible future outbreak.

Joshua also had a contrast CT scan of his head, and did GREAT with the help of 2 volunteer translators coaching him to "hold still" :-). The great news is there is no sign of Sturge-Weber Syndrome calcification in his brain :-). The bad news, is there are anomalies that suggest mild Sturge-Weber :-(. We won't know much more until we can get him to Seattle for a contrast MRI that's read by a specialist. PTL they have an awesome one there, and we're already booked to see him in March. But the anomalies make this mom a bit anxious about Friday's surgery sedation! Please help pray Joshua sails through this surgery easily and recovers quickly? Thanks!