[tri-med] Brianna's Surgery

 
 
Well...........Today is the day. My oldest daughter, Brianna will be  
checking into Shriners Children's Hospital at 1:00.
 
Yesterday was a great day for Brianna! Her team won the STATE  championships 
in Special Olympics Basketball! It was bitter sweet watching my  girl play 
sports for the last time for a year now. 
 
Brianna will be having a spinal fusion to correct her Scheuermann's  Disease. 
It has caused kyphosis in her upper back that will become very painful  if we 
don't do anything.
 
It was such a hard decision to say, "okay"......go ahead, lets go for the  
surgery now." I'm very scared for our girl and pray this is the right time to 
do 
 this surgery.
 
We have church family/friends/family coming up to the hospital at 4:00 for  a 
prayer. Brianna will be in surgery at 7:30 tomorrow morning. She will be in  
surgery for 10 or so hours. They will take bone from her hip and use it to 
fuse  the rods to her spine. She is expected to be there for approx 2 weeks.
 
Here is the hospital address if anyone would like to send a card to our  very 
special girl. Brianna loves to get mail!  This is one of the  highlights of 
her day at home. Hopefully she'll get lots of mail while in the  hospital to 
cheer her up a little!
 
 
 
Shriners Hospitals for Children-Northern California
2425 Stockton Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95817-2215
Attn: Brianna Poppe
 
 
Oh my gosh. I'm really feeling it now. Just hit me...again what my daughter  
will endure. Please pray for her. And for the surgeons that will be involved  
with this major surgery on my baby girl. (She's always gonna be my  
baby.......but Bri is 18!) Thank You.
 
Love,
 
Laurie and Alan
Brianna, Brandon, Marissa and Kayla
 
on a side note......our pastor just called to pray for Bri and said he'll  be 
there before surgery in the morning to pray. GOD IS GOOD!  







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