Emma in China. Look at that little hopeful face!! Those eyes tell many stories of her past. We can only hope and pray that some of those stories will fade with time and new stories will take their place. 
Well, we have spent the past 10 days visiting all sorts for doctors!! It's that time of year and we are trying to meet our deductible for our insurance in order to cover all the necessary surgeries facing us for Nov. and Dec.
The first Nov. appointment was the 7th with an ENT for Emma. She is a noisy sleeper and a mouth breather. Sure enough they want the tonsils and adenoids removed. This may aid her speech in the long run. If not, she will at the very least breath well and sleep well. :)
On the 10th of Nov. Emma had a visit with the speech path. for a full evaluation at Children's Hospital and she is doing ok. They will monitor her and review her again in the spring. Emma's speech while plentiful in vocabulary, her articulation is not quite where it needs to be. We have some exercises to do and I have to keep a check list for the speech doc. I hope I can get at least some of it done!! Then on the 11th Emma was at Children's for her heart echo and EKG. This is the long awaited visit that determined whether or not she would have surgery. While we did pray that she would have complete healing, we are not concerned and look forward to her having her little heart repaired once and for all!! This will be done on Friday, Dec. 5th at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. The plan is to do the surgery thru catherization, but we are aware that when they begin and if it does not work that way it will be open heart surgery. Big difference in her hospital stay and recovery. So please pray for this up-coming surgery. Once this is complete she will have her T&A surgery, likely right after Christmas. So, the Bergeron family is planning on a long Dec. of recovery. To add to this, Larry had a double hernia surgery last Thursday, the 13th. He is recovering nicely from the surgery although he has a terrible cough from a cold he picked up prior to the surgery. He cannot go near Emma as she needs to remain healthy to have these surgeries. :)
Here are some photos of our little shining star, Emma.
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We will definitely keep her on our prayer list. I don't know which cardiologist you see at Cincy childrens but we really like ours.
Maddy is to have surgery on Dec 8 to remove the old scar from her heart surgery and hopefully have a new one that is less painful and we pray doesn't keloid like the one she has now.
Both our girls will be in God's mighty hands in December. :0) (a good place to be)
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