So, tomorrow is the big day. They had us scheduled to come in at 6:15am, but then something got bumped and now we need to be there at 7:30am. We’re guessing anywhere from 7-12 hours for the surgery, but it could be more or less. Either way, it’s going to be a full day. We have been told that we’ll be in a large waiting room, getting updates passed along to us from Dr. Laquaglia every 1.5-2 hrs. I know that many of you are going to be constantly lifting Eli and Dr. Laquaglia up to God in prayer, so I thought I’d setup a running update site so that you guys can be updated when we are. http://surgery.elihorn.com is a blog I set up that I can post to by sending txt messages from my cell phone. It’ll be a nice way for me to send short messages for you guys to read without me needing a computer. Also, you can just visit that site whenever you want an update and I won’t fill CarePages with dozens of short posts, which in turn would e-mail all 430 of you for every short message. Hopefully this will satisfy those that can’t wait for me to find the time to post the summary of the surgery on CarePages (which admittedly could take a while, I’m not sure at this point.)
I’ll just continue to say it. We appreciate the prayers of the Bible believing Christ followers SO MUCH because we know from Scripture that it is effective and that God hears His people. God is truly in control and He is the Great Physician. As helpless as it may feel to not be able to do anything by my own power for my son who has cancer, it’s comforting to know that I have such a close and personal relationship with the One that can. Ephesians 1:18-21 says that we that believe can know “his incomparably great power” which is the same power that rose Christ from the dead. I’m confident I can count on that power to be more than sufficient to heal my son.
James 5:15 “And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”