The procedure this afternoon went much better than we had anticipated. Sophie was such a big girl. She never even looked back when they took her through those double doors to the operating room. A friend of ours from church is a Child Life Specialist at LeBonheur, so she came and went over everything with Sophie. Then, she got to dress out in scrubs and walk with Sophie back to the OR. It was such a sweet gift from God to have Molly there today. I was nervous about Sophie being scared. Molly was able to carry her into the operating room and stay with her until she was asleep. She then came in and let me know that Sophie was fine, asleep, and that they had started. So, I had to hand my precious girl over to these doctors, but a sweet friend was right there with her when I could not be. God is so good to us.
Sophie did great throughout the procedure. The doctor said that her lung structure is fine. There was no evidence of an underlying infection in there. He took lots of samples from her lungs and her nose. They are testing the lung samples for all kinds of germs, fungi, etc. The samples from the nasal biopsy are being sent to Mayo Clinic for analysis. They are trying to rule out something called Primary Ciliary Dyskenesia. It would be a surprise if Sophie had it, but we will be happy to know once and for all whether or not we can rule it out. Sophie and I will head back to the pulmonologist in eight weeks for a follow-up visit. We will get all of the results at that time.
Thank you for your prayers, calls, text messages, and e-mails throughout the day today. It meant a lot to me to have so many of you praying for us and our Sophie.
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