On Saturday Georgie was sounding rattly and chesty again. By 3am on Sunday morning she had cleared up a lot.
She had a very peaceful and restful day yesterday.
Planning to start getting Georgie home - at least in the day times hopefully from next week on.
Ange said last night she was very good and that this morning she was the most "communicative" she had heard her in terms of little noises she sometimes makes.
Our house is getting pretty close to being finished now. We now have steps so we are no longer the "house with no steps"!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday onwards Georgie has had a good week so far this week.
Hospital and community services keen to get us home soon but they have achieved very little to actually get anything concrete done to assist us.
We have kept things moving from our end so a bit frustrating.
Hospital staff reiterated this week that they do not intend to resuscitate Georgie should any major complication arise. She really is in God's hands.
The plan is to start transitioning home so backwards and forwards from hospital a bit as needed. Will be pretty hard to let her out of sight again once she comes home though. If she is sick she can go straight back to the ward and bypass emergency and admissions.
A fundraiser to help with some of Georgie's needs went well. Ray Price and his wife Sandi and Terry leadbeater and Eric Groethe and their girlfriends all came up and helped auction off lots of football memorabilia. Ray and Sandi came out for brekky on sunday morning before they went home.
1 Chronicles 29 Davids prayer.
Hospital and community services keen to get us home soon but they have achieved very little to actually get anything concrete done to assist us.
We have kept things moving from our end so a bit frustrating.
Hospital staff reiterated this week that they do not intend to resuscitate Georgie should any major complication arise. She really is in God's hands.
The plan is to start transitioning home so backwards and forwards from hospital a bit as needed. Will be pretty hard to let her out of sight again once she comes home though. If she is sick she can go straight back to the ward and bypass emergency and admissions.
A fundraiser to help with some of Georgie's needs went well. Ray Price and his wife Sandi and Terry leadbeater and Eric Groethe and their girlfriends all came up and helped auction off lots of football memorabilia. Ray and Sandi came out for brekky on sunday morning before they went home.
1 Chronicles 29 Davids prayer.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday 17th April
Georgie is back to being comfortable again.
Well it is two years today since we found ourselves with Georgie suddenly in Westmead hospital.
Many battles, quite a few scars remaining.
We had talks with the hospital today about all the logistics of getting Georgie home on the 1st May. Initially we are just looking at day leave when she is well and utilising the hospital whenever needed and even for respite. Basically there is no service provided for children as it is so rarely needed. The hospital are doing a lot of work behind the scenes. They have applied on our behalf to get a nurse at home for her. This will take a lot of negotiation as they said there is no precedent for it in the area. We would have to advertise for ourselves to get someone if there was someone who was willing. Costs are great. Fortunately a fellow called Tom has come along and all off his own bat has organised a fund raising event for Georgie at a local hotel tonight. He is a retired drover. Hopefully this will help. It has also been a big strain on us emotionally with the publicity etc that has been necessary. Please pray that God will be glorified in all of this. Pray for Tom too he is not a Christian and has bone cancer which he says is terminal. He says he is always in pain (and it is evident at times)but a funny thing happens when he goes fund raising for Georgie he said all his pain just disappears.
Ange and Em went to Katoomba Convention and they said the best thing was the caretaker there had shared his story of how he and wife had fostered kids and had fostered a girl with cerebral palsy whom nobody would take on but they and church were praying for her and now she has been healed of the condition! She is 12 and Ange said she is stunningly beautiful and she even won a 100 metre sprint the other day. This after even when she was deemed to be improving the medicos said she would always walk with a limp.
We met a lovely old aboriginal lady the other day at the hospital. As soon as I saw her I knew she would be a Christian even before she spoke so i asked her are you a believer? She said "yes i am" and for the next hour and a half we talked about our love for God, sharing and building faith. She and her husband have been pastors in places like Bourke and Condobolin for many years. She said "our God is a wonderful healing God we have seen many miracles over the years". Even a boy who had his head run over by a landcruiser was healed and could hear the following day. He'd had so much internal head injury the drs said he would be a vegetable if he ever awoke.
Well we don't understand it all. We have seen other children we have been praying for healed of various things - two with cancer and yet not our Georgie - not yet anyway.
Well it is two years today since we found ourselves with Georgie suddenly in Westmead hospital.
Many battles, quite a few scars remaining.
We had talks with the hospital today about all the logistics of getting Georgie home on the 1st May. Initially we are just looking at day leave when she is well and utilising the hospital whenever needed and even for respite. Basically there is no service provided for children as it is so rarely needed. The hospital are doing a lot of work behind the scenes. They have applied on our behalf to get a nurse at home for her. This will take a lot of negotiation as they said there is no precedent for it in the area. We would have to advertise for ourselves to get someone if there was someone who was willing. Costs are great. Fortunately a fellow called Tom has come along and all off his own bat has organised a fund raising event for Georgie at a local hotel tonight. He is a retired drover. Hopefully this will help. It has also been a big strain on us emotionally with the publicity etc that has been necessary. Please pray that God will be glorified in all of this. Pray for Tom too he is not a Christian and has bone cancer which he says is terminal. He says he is always in pain (and it is evident at times)but a funny thing happens when he goes fund raising for Georgie he said all his pain just disappears.
Ange and Em went to Katoomba Convention and they said the best thing was the caretaker there had shared his story of how he and wife had fostered kids and had fostered a girl with cerebral palsy whom nobody would take on but they and church were praying for her and now she has been healed of the condition! She is 12 and Ange said she is stunningly beautiful and she even won a 100 metre sprint the other day. This after even when she was deemed to be improving the medicos said she would always walk with a limp.
We met a lovely old aboriginal lady the other day at the hospital. As soon as I saw her I knew she would be a Christian even before she spoke so i asked her are you a believer? She said "yes i am" and for the next hour and a half we talked about our love for God, sharing and building faith. She and her husband have been pastors in places like Bourke and Condobolin for many years. She said "our God is a wonderful healing God we have seen many miracles over the years". Even a boy who had his head run over by a landcruiser was healed and could hear the following day. He'd had so much internal head injury the drs said he would be a vegetable if he ever awoke.
Well we don't understand it all. We have seen other children we have been praying for healed of various things - two with cancer and yet not our Georgie - not yet anyway.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday 15th
For most of Easter Georgie has had a bit of a rough time again with increased seizures and so on.
The only thing is to keep giving more sedatives as required.
It is hard work.
The only thing is to keep giving more sedatives as required.
It is hard work.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Monday 6th
Georgie seems to have pretty much fought off the pneumonia now. She was put onto a single course of oral anti-biotics from Monday to Friday. The dr said everybody thinks that anti-biotics fix pneumonia but that's not really true he said it's still really up to the person to fight it off and clear their own chest etc. I know plenty of people were praying too.
She slept most of last night after midnight other than when we woke her up by turning her in bed.
She has been making little sounds lately from time to time. Mostly when she has something painful like with the chest trouble but sometimes little kind of contented sighs. (I don't know what it means and I don't want to get anybodys hopes up at all and wasn't even sure whether to say anything at all - but it is just something different after total silence for two years.) A nurse commented to me last night that she had told the other nurses about this too she said she made a sound that sounded like a word. I asked her what it was and she said it sounded like "get!" Anyway sad as it all is it made me laugh. Some of the nurses are really good value.
I was reading the bible in the parent's room at the hospital at about 4.30am the other morning and these verses gave me something to think about.
"And in this I give advice; It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also must be a completion out of what you have"
2 Corinthians 8 v 10,11
She slept most of last night after midnight other than when we woke her up by turning her in bed.
She has been making little sounds lately from time to time. Mostly when she has something painful like with the chest trouble but sometimes little kind of contented sighs. (I don't know what it means and I don't want to get anybodys hopes up at all and wasn't even sure whether to say anything at all - but it is just something different after total silence for two years.) A nurse commented to me last night that she had told the other nurses about this too she said she made a sound that sounded like a word. I asked her what it was and she said it sounded like "get!" Anyway sad as it all is it made me laugh. Some of the nurses are really good value.
I was reading the bible in the parent's room at the hospital at about 4.30am the other morning and these verses gave me something to think about.
"And in this I give advice; It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also must be a completion out of what you have"
2 Corinthians 8 v 10,11
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday 31st March
Dear all our little possum has been very sick for the last couple of days. With all of the vomiting she has had in recent weeks she has developed pneumonia so has been battling hard for two days now. She seems a little better today than yesterday but will need to get on top of it pretty quickly. She is very tired.
In the early hours of yesterday morning (maybe 3am) the dr thought Georgie was headed for so much trouble that he told me he thought I had better call my family in. (He is one of two drs who are in Dubbo for six months who used to be on her case in Sydney)
She continues to touch peoples lives. A retired drover (not a believer yet) has been fund-raising for her and has several ex-Sydney football players coming up for an auction night to help out. The night he unknowingly picked is the 17th April which will be two years to the day since Georgie went into Westmead. This fellow has bone cancer but he said "Georgie gives me strength. When I go out fund raising for her I have no pain."
A friend asked today if he could go in and play his guitar and sing to her.
Some Godly men came yesterday to pray and others continue to fast. The family of God is a wonderful thing.
Em is on a school camp down in the Snowy mountains this week, hiking and camping.
In the early hours of yesterday morning (maybe 3am) the dr thought Georgie was headed for so much trouble that he told me he thought I had better call my family in. (He is one of two drs who are in Dubbo for six months who used to be on her case in Sydney)
She continues to touch peoples lives. A retired drover (not a believer yet) has been fund-raising for her and has several ex-Sydney football players coming up for an auction night to help out. The night he unknowingly picked is the 17th April which will be two years to the day since Georgie went into Westmead. This fellow has bone cancer but he said "Georgie gives me strength. When I go out fund raising for her I have no pain."
A friend asked today if he could go in and play his guitar and sing to her.
Some Godly men came yesterday to pray and others continue to fast. The family of God is a wonderful thing.
Em is on a school camp down in the Snowy mountains this week, hiking and camping.
Friday, March 20, 2009
24th March 2009
Well I've decided to restart Georgie's blog as so many people asked me to but just to keep it to trusted friends. I hope I can continue to provide some useful info that will help to keep people a bit more up to date and praying.
If you know of others who would like to continue receiving news of Georgie and who feel strongly to pray then please feel free to let them email me at gregbrooke@hotmail.com and I can add them to the blog.
Georgie is still with us. People ask how is she? It is not easy to answer. She has some seizures of one kind or another most days but is usually just in a sort of sleepy and so far as we can tell comfortable state. She is on regular anti-epileptic meds as well as massive sedation to keep the fitting down. She has probably developed a big tolerance to drugs.
The pic above was back in January when I went to see her one day and she was much more aware than I had seen her and as I had my arm behind her in bed she just sat straight up holding her head up. It was very exciting and I managed to get a quick pic on the phone. Unfortunately when i came back again that night she was just having lots of seizures.
The Dubbo Hospital has made a good effort to "get to know her" and accommodate her needs. Some of the nurses say they have fallen in love with her. They are far fewer staffed than Westmead so some things can't be done which used to be.
Georgie has some regular visitors at the hospital including some of her school friends who go to see her twice a week which is so good.
Lately she has been quite sick for a couple of weeks but since Sunday been comfortable again.
Em and James are going well. Em turned 16 last week and James 13 this weekend.
A local fellow in Dubbo is having a football memorabilia auction night to raise some funds for Georgie's ongoing needs. He is not a believer but has a good heart. The night he picked interestingly is the 17th April - which will be two years to the day since Georgie went to Westmead. Former league legend Ray Price is donating some of his personal collection and is coming to see Georgie and go to the night.
I have been thinking about the passage from Acts 10
There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, who was a captain in the Roman regiment called "the Italian Regiment". He was a religious man; he and his whole family worshipped God. he also did much to help the Jewish poor people and was constantly praying to God. It was about three o'clock one afternoon when he had a vision, in which he clearly saw an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius!" He stared at the angel in fear and said "What is it sir?" The angel answered, "God is pleased with your prayers and works of charity, and is ready to answer you".
If you know of others who would like to continue receiving news of Georgie and who feel strongly to pray then please feel free to let them email me at gregbrooke@hotmail.com and I can add them to the blog.
Georgie is still with us. People ask how is she? It is not easy to answer. She has some seizures of one kind or another most days but is usually just in a sort of sleepy and so far as we can tell comfortable state. She is on regular anti-epileptic meds as well as massive sedation to keep the fitting down. She has probably developed a big tolerance to drugs.
The pic above was back in January when I went to see her one day and she was much more aware than I had seen her and as I had my arm behind her in bed she just sat straight up holding her head up. It was very exciting and I managed to get a quick pic on the phone. Unfortunately when i came back again that night she was just having lots of seizures.
The Dubbo Hospital has made a good effort to "get to know her" and accommodate her needs. Some of the nurses say they have fallen in love with her. They are far fewer staffed than Westmead so some things can't be done which used to be.
Georgie has some regular visitors at the hospital including some of her school friends who go to see her twice a week which is so good.
Lately she has been quite sick for a couple of weeks but since Sunday been comfortable again.
Em and James are going well. Em turned 16 last week and James 13 this weekend.
A local fellow in Dubbo is having a football memorabilia auction night to raise some funds for Georgie's ongoing needs. He is not a believer but has a good heart. The night he picked interestingly is the 17th April - which will be two years to the day since Georgie went to Westmead. Former league legend Ray Price is donating some of his personal collection and is coming to see Georgie and go to the night.
I have been thinking about the passage from Acts 10
There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, who was a captain in the Roman regiment called "the Italian Regiment". He was a religious man; he and his whole family worshipped God. he also did much to help the Jewish poor people and was constantly praying to God. It was about three o'clock one afternoon when he had a vision, in which he clearly saw an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius!" He stared at the angel in fear and said "What is it sir?" The angel answered, "God is pleased with your prayers and works of charity, and is ready to answer you".
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