UPDATE: Miracles for our daughter Angela

Dear All:

We wish to thank you from the deepest recesses of our hearts for your outpouring of love, kindness and support for our daughter Angela this week, and hope you will forgive the intrusion in your e-mailbox.

Angela was released from St. Joseph's Thursday afternoon. They pushed close to 3000ml of fluids through her in less than 24 hours, and restored her ability to eat and function independently. This has resulted in her being physically stable, for which we are eternally grateful, and allowed us to bring her home to care for her here. We recognize the hand of God and wish to praise Him for this miracle. After being at UCI for about 96 hours with no fluids and little food intake, we know that if she had stayed there much longer we might very well be planning a funeral. It is YOUR prayers and support which allowed her to be released from UCI, and miraculously accepted at St. Joseph's, a hospital technically "out of our insurance network" which resulted in restoring her to physical stability and gave her a fighting chance.

We are grateful to our case manager Joan H. and insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross, and Dr. Sherman, who made that happen. We believe they helped save a life this week.

Going for nearly 4 days without any real medical intervention or care at all took an even bigger toll on Angela psychologically than the spin she was already in from the severe dehydration. The treatment she received at St. Joe's has seen an improvement of about 60% of her psyche from where she was over the weekend, but she is still in a frail state. For this reason we are still requesting no visitors. Her primary care doctor miraculously called us out of the blue requesting to see her, and prescribed some medication which we believe will help Angela even further, and we look forward to an accelerated recovery.

I will be honest. In the controlling nature that I have, I have prayed for the miracle of "take up thy bed and walk." It has been hard to accept the Lord's dictum that she will be healed in "due time." But God does not let an opportunity go to waste. This event has made me keenly aware of the small opportunities for service all around us which seem small, but are in actuality huge: specific, focused prayer, an offer to relieve someone so they can get respite, assisting with other (able bodied) members of the household etc., a kind word here and there. We recognize the hand of God, that He put MANY people in our lives these past few years because HE knew that "they would come in to (our) Kingdom for such a time as this."

Thank you again for your love, prayers and support. They are deeply appreciated and ask that you keep us in your specific prayers for Angela's continued healing and recovery.

Kathryn, Roger, Aaron and Adam