On the Road to Recovery

We are now 10 days into Bethany's recovery from a freak accident she had at the pool. (You can read about her injury here)   The emergency oral surgeon on call at the hospital had us come to his office for emergency surgery to re-set her teeth back into her gums and to do full scan of xrays to make sure there was no other damage.  At that time he gave her about a 30% chance that the teeth would survive the trauma, sent us home with STRICT guidelines and 3 different medications for a time of "wait-and-see"  The day after the accident, she went back for her first followup and he said it looked as if she'd been healing for a week already and upped her chances to 50%, encouraging us to stay very rigid with the plan he told us to stick to.  This included sleeping upright in a recliner, no submersion of water in her mouth that might cause bacteria (swimming, showers, etc), absolutely no activity, and a liquid only diet through a straw.  We were severe with our approach to this medical advice, even though it was brutal on everyone.  Well, God has heard our prayers and honored our hard work, because after her visit today the doctor is 75% sure that her teeth are going to survive this!  They are still loose, but no where near as loose as he would expect them to still be at this stage!  He has upgraded her a little bit in her activity level.  She can now eat soft foods such as puddings, pasta, etc.  Nothing harder than a tuna salad sandwich is the guide he gave us.  She can go back to her bed, start taking showers on her own again, and get up and around for moderate activity.  She's a little bummed that she has to get back to her chores now!  He still does not want her doing anything that would risk contact, so still no sports, no swimming, and nothing around a lot of other kids.  They aren't completely set, and so even a small bump to the mouth would loosen them right back up.

We are praising God for how quickly her recovery is going, and are expecting continued healing!  Our prayer going forward is that nothing would set back her healing process, and that she will not need any root canals in the future.  Doc is still saying that she'll definitely need them down the line, but we know God still performs miracles!  She will definitely need braces later on, that's already evident.  We also would add to that prayer list that God would provide for us financially through all of this.  We know He will, just as He always has!  Thank you all for continuing with us in prayer!