Update on Rachael Kligmann
Posted By Jacque on July 1, 2008
CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR RACHAEL KLIGMANN
The first is that there have been some things happening with Rachael Kligmann. She is voluntarily moving her hands, etc. as she is spoken to. PLEASE pray for her Momma. You can hear the wrenching in her heart. If you have not read her Journal lately, be sure to go over and read it. You can also get notifications by email each time her parents post on it about her.
Her area few of the events that have been happening:
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2008 12:27 PM, CDT
The neurosurgeon came to see Rachael a little while ago and she is responding in a primitive way to pain.
However, when I went in to see her a couple of minutes ago and said something asking the nurse how she is doing she MOVED her arm!
She heard my voice. I don’t have even a vague clue what that means but I do know that this early on for her to make a voluntary movement in response to my voice is a rather big deal.
I am weeping with joy and TERRIFIED.
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2008 11:12 PM, CDT
So it has been a day. Rachael has moved her head and both arms. She is certainly responsive to pain but whether that is a primative reflex or if she is hearing me.amd responding…<shrug>…I dont’ know.
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008 09:27 AM, CDT
I barely slept last night. I was so afraid that I would miss the neurosurgeons rounds. But we didn’t.
When we went into her room this morning and started talking to her she started moving immediately. I watched her for a few seconds first and she was resting until we started talking.
Her arm started moving on my side where I was standing on her left. I asked her to squeeze my hand and her fingers started moving and her arm started twitching and moving. She started to “blink” her eyes even though her eyes are shut. fter a little while I lifted her eyelid for her on her right since I am not sure if she is blind in her left eye (they don’t know yet) and her right eye moved ever so slightly toward me.
TUESDAY, JULY 01, 2008 12:44 AM, CDT
Rachael is *overbreathing* her ventilator by quite a bit now. But she is working SO hard to breathe that it exhausts me to watch her. Also she is running a really high fever; 104 + .
She had to have an MRI this evening. Poor little thing was having a hard time with it.
She cries. When something has been hard for her today several times I have seen tears from both eyes that seemed appropriate to what was happening. It seems like a cognitive sign to me.
I also really only got a couple of hours of sleep last night. I have been very emotional toight.
I want to go home. I want to spend time with my kids. I want to cook dinner. I want to just be normal.
Lord I do believe. Help me in my unbelief. She is not dead she is asleep.
TUESDAY, JULY 01, 2008 12:04 PM, CDT
Still waiting for MRI results.
Rachael moved her thumb in response to my asking her to squeeze my hand and then lifted a finger when I asked her to. Then I touched her left leg and asked her to move it and she did. The nruse witnessed the leg part. I let her rest for a few minutes and then asked her to lift her hand off of mine, which she did.
And YET…the nurse would not tell us anything about the MRI, the drs want to meet with us and anre conferring so I think they are going to tell us bad news about it.
And YET…if you don’t look inside a closed box does it change what is inside it?
This is by far the worst rollercoaster ride we have ever been on. I think next time we should just go back to Disneyland.
Pete and I are wearing down fast. Jodi (our pastor’s wife) promised us that this is the hardest thing we will ever have to do.
As soon as they tell us that she is likely to live through the night we can at least go home and sleep for a few hours and begin trying to figure out what our lives will look like from here, but she is still in critical condition.
It just keeps getting harder in lots of ways. But she is still alive.
Please continue to pray for her and her parents and family. You can also leave a prayer or an encouragement in her Journal.
blessings!
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