Hannah Update 3/10/04

May god bless your family and heal your precious daughter. Your Hannah is already giving something special to all of us. She's opened the door of so many hearts, some with very rusty hinges. He never wastes a hurt. May your pain soon turn to joy. Have faith.
Carl
 
Craig --

I live in Dallas, but I sent my uncle the information about Hannah because he lives in Round Rock. He is going to come to the benefit this weekend and will circulate Hannah's story around his church so that any others interested in coming can attend. Again, God bless.
 
Yes, thanks for the update. I do have some tears right now and all I can do is pray for your family, and especially for Hannah. I pray that the glass is half full and that improvement is in the next report.
 
God Bless you and your little girl.

My prayers are with you guys
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Prayer is a powerful thing. Reading this update made me remember that my parents had to make the decision to let my little brother go more than 30 years ago. I am so glad that the news came back that Hannah has a 50/50 shot. Sounds like the odds are getting better all the time. God has done alot through Hannah, and I think He will continue to do so.

Father God,

Thank you for the gift of Hannah, and we pray for her continued recovery. Give her family your strength and peace, and those who work with her the wisdom to heal her. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen
 
Hey guess who. Your One and Only cousin that would have a username like this. This is one way with keeping up with Hannah. I talked to your mom Mon. night and she was not very upbeat. This post gave me such hope for her and your prayers have increased. Y'all are constantly on our minds and thoughts. I know the lord will give you strenght to get through this. I don't when we can come back to the hospital but hopefully soon. Take care and love ya cuz.
 
I've been out of town and away from the computer this week and just logged on and saw your update. We are continuing to keep Hannah and your entire family in our thoughts and prayers.
 
Craig - thank you for the update again. It is amazing you find the time and energy to get on here and post, but I am guessing it is also kind of cathartic for you.

As it has been for the last few weeks - Hannah is in the thoughts and prayers of all in our house here in Houston. Continuing daily for you, your family, and Hannah.

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Words cannot do justice to the feelings I have in my heart for Hannah and your family. May God shine his countenance upon you and yours. You are in my familys thoughts and prayers.
 
Thanks for the update. I was wondering how things were going. I hope that my thinking and wondering about Hannah is of some comfort to you.
Joe Capehart
 
I truly believe that the love of a parent for his child is the closest thing on earth to God's love for his children.

Your love for Hannah surely makes even God take notice. The love that you give her comes straight from above, and that's pretty powerful stuff.

I KNOW that I will get to meet Hannah at a horns game one of these days.

You have to know -- you MUST know -- how much and how hard that people you don't even know are praying for your family, and for Hannah.

When you pray, and hope for Hannah, know that you are far from alone.
 
I haven't seen this posted anywhere - I assume it's new? It's on the updates page at www.hannahhowell.org/


wanted to let you know that Hannah is recovering well from her surgery.
This will lead us to being able to leave the Pediatric ICU and move to Rehab.
We've been here for 35 days now, so we look forward to getting Hannah out of the
hospital.
We may be moving as early as the first week of April. It's going to be hard
being away from you guys, but the best place for Hannah will be in Dallas. We
are trying to get her into a place called Our Children's House at Baylor .
We're not sure how long we'll have to be there, that depends on God and Hannah.
It's more of a home setting instead of a hospital. This is an inpatient
facility and is set up where a parent can be there 24 hours a day. I think once we
get to move there we'll see Hannah improve with leaps and bounds.
Hannah is also trying to move more. We are excited to see her working so hard
to overcome this. Her Neurologist did a continuous EEG with video last
Thursday-Friday. He viewed the tape over the weekend and was impressed with some of
the movement he saw from Hannah. When we would tell him the things we had seen
her do, he thought many of the movements Craig and I were describing might
just be involuntary reflexes. After seeing for her on video, he is giving her
credit for voluntary movement. We have a long road to recovery, but we have come
a long way since February 9th. I know her progress has much to do with the
love you've given and the prayers you've prayed for her.
I want to say thanks again to all of you for all you've done. Craig and I
appreciate everything more than words can express. Thanks also for the prayers
for Hunter.
I want to say thanks again to all of you for all you've done. Craig and I
appreciate everything more than words can express. Thanks also for the prayers
for Hunter.
Love,
Lisa Howell
P.S. a few more prayers for Baby Grant ,Hannah`s neighbor, and all the little kids in PICU.
 
Prayers and wishes to God for full recoveries for Hannah and other children. Kids, especially your own, in hospitals are tough. But, Childrens' is the best. Stay positive and thanks for posting updates on the website.
 
DAY 31

I know I haven't posted any updates for a while. It's been a rough couple of weeks, with Hannah's progress very up and down to say the least. She's had fevers (103.4), infections, swelling, lack of bowl function, rashes from reactions to medications, and she even threw up stomach fluid which she aspirated into her lungs. Her motor functions have been sporadic, at best, and we were told a week ago that the likelihood of her making any further progress in that area was not very good. We were facing an impossible decision of taking her off the ventilator and letting her go. Although the doctors can't make that decision for us, the things they were telling us indicated they thought letting her go was the best course of action. Her mom and I have been very upset, to say the least.

We decided we wanted to give her another week before we made a decision and have been closely monitoring her for any changes, no matter how slight. There have been some sporadic head and hand movements but none which really seemed "purposeful". Our week was up yesterday and we had a care conference with all of her doctors, fully expecting more bad news; expecting to have to finally make the impossible decision which we had been putting off for so long. Imagine our suprise when the neurologist told us that he believes that she has "potential for further improvement." As he explained, Hannah's injury essentially caused her brain to shut down and he feels we need to give her more time to "flip the switch back into the 'on' position."

He cautioned us that this could be a very gradual process and that there was still the possibility that her recovery has already progressed as far as it is going to. He seems to think this is about a 50/50 situation. We'll take every bit of that. It's way more than what we expected to hear.

With this information, we've decided to go ahead and move forward like we had planned. She will undergo surgery this week for a tracheostamy to get her off the ventilator, and they'll also do a G-tube to feed her directly into her stomach. This will allow us to move her around a little more, get her sitting up, and hopefully begin rehab soon. We're still a long way from where we want to be and we do understand that we're not out of the woods yet, but her mom and I have an entirely new outlook now which we really needed.

Thank you all again for your prayers, support, and words of encouragement. Don't know what we would do without it right now.

God bless,

Craig Howell


www.hannahhowell.org
 
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