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Huahua has big plans to be a Doctor!  She's involved in her first cardio internship here (unpaid!) Yesterday Huahua saw her cardiologist and we discussed the next steps in planning her Fondan procedure.  This procedure is usually done when a child is between 3-5 years old.  Many pieces go together to decide when is the "right" time to move forward with this next step, primarily her heart functioning and daily behavior.  Of concern has been her elevated red blood cell count which  makes them believe she is not functioning as good as she looks.  Her body is for some reason believes it is starving for oxygen and the cells are responding in this way.   There are inherent risks allowing her to continue with elevated levels as she is. So the next step is a cardiac catheterization to access her true functioning of the heart and map out her uniquely formed heart.  It is really amazing to hear how her heart is formed (with single ventricle and one common a...

Can you say Beauty QUEEN????  She loves to dress up, but more so her siblings love to dress her up.  This was Jackson's design.  Pink, pink and more pink! It's hard to fathom this whole process wasn't even on our radar last year at this time.  We were just settled in from Jackson healing and we were breathing without Dr appointments left and right.  But adoption had brought so much color to our lives.  A perspective on things sometimes I want to close my eyes and say Lord I wish I did not know that.  But now I do and He has chosen to open my eyes to a world.  A world of hurt and pain more intense than any child should bear and in doing so created a passion in me for these orphans who do not have an advocate.  He walked us through with Jackson and he will faithfully walk us through with Huahua. Proverbs 24:12 "“Once our eyes are opened, we cannot pretend we don't know what to do.  God who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that ...