19th December

We had already organised to all get together and pray for the Newmans and Togwells at their new house! Unfortunatly Emma was rushed to hospital very suddenly a day before, heres an extract of what Phil described on his blog...

"...the whole day was a cycle of trolley-trips to the x-ray department, injections (the morphine, an anti-nausea drug, a huge dose of dye just before one of the x-rays, a saline drip...), conversations with the Doc/s, and Emma writhing in bouts of pain or throwing-up. Not a lot of fun,\I must confess. And even less for Emma.

At the moment, they think it's something to do with her kidney. Maybe stones? Although the dye-x-ray didn't reveal what it should have done if that were the case. So now they want to do an ultra-sound scan... tomorrow morning... which means she's still in the hospital, while I'm back home with our girls, and with Helen and Ian."

Ros, Dewi, Jo and I decided to use this time to pray instead, specifically for Emma and protection over the two families. We met in the Togwells and Newmans new living room and prayed! During the prayer we felt a really moving sense of peace in the room and we spent some time sitting in silence in God's presence. Jo found a great verse which she read out as a proclaimation and prayer. (Hopefully she'll be able to add it to this section of the blog).

We returned home that night and barely an hour later we got a text from Phil saying 'I don't know what you guys prayed but Emma's just been discharged from hospital...a good thing :)'

Heres more from Toggie Tales...
"According to the gynae consultant, the blood test was ok... and the fact that she'd had an ok day was a fairly good sign. "You will need surgery," she explained, "but I doubt you want it before Christmas?" Silly question.

Emma's got to 'take things easy', which is easier said than done (we've already told her off a few times today!), but she's feeling loads better. She's got an appointment early in January, and we guess that the surgery will follow on from that?

...if the cyst-mass isn't completely gone by then, of course, which is what we're now praying for. We'd love you to join with us, and with Angel especially... "Jesus, make Mummy better." :o)"
Amen!