Miracle Morgan: "She looks great!"

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

"She looks great!"

These were the words of Dr. Lee today when he saw her. Especially when he realized it had only been three weeks. Dr. Clark was pleased too. Morgan looked at him directly in the eyes and grabbed his hand. She walked around the room and explored while we were visiting. They were so impressed at all she was already doing. They said the MRI showed some swelling still, but they were not concerned. They said this swelling could be causing the seizures, but even if she didn't have swelling, it was common to still have seizures this soon after surgery. They continued to say that it takes time for her brain to heal. Neurology wants to see her in a week to increase her vagus nerve stimulator. Other than that, they don't need to see her until June. They released her to go back to school. She will start back tomorrow. Yay Morgan! We are so proud of you. We give God the glory for all He has done and continues to do. He is fully restoring her and providing the miracle we have all prayed for.

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AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 5:51 PM
What great pictures!!! Makes me feel so wonderful and blessed. God is so trusting; we just have to keep trusting him to heal our Princess completely. Thank you Jeananne for keeping us updated. My love, Grani Ruth
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AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 8:21 AM
Jeananne, she's just beautiful! God had brought her SO far and He's carried you and the family right along with her. From my own experience with a brain injured person, it does take time for the injury/surgery to heal . . . more time than WE are happy with waiting through. However, God is at work in Morgan's brain and she will be EXACTLY as He wants her to be when it's all over with. That she's been released to go back to school is wonderful. God keep and protect and heal Morgan AND you and your family. May you all live daily in the wonder of God's love for you. Best regards from your former PT client . . . Nancy Coram (and Henry and Joseph, too!!)
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Morgan's Story

Our daughter Morgan turned five in December. She was born healthy and developed normally, at first. She began having seizures at the age of two. Since then, her development has halted, even regressed. She now cannot talk. She walks, but is uncoordinated which causes her to fall multiple times a day. She rarely smiles or laughs, since she doesn't feel good.
She is an intelligent little girl that just seems to be trapped in her body right now. Doctors said that the seizures and the medicine were likely holding her back from progressing. She has been on seven to eight different seizure medicines and continues to have multiple seizures daily and nightly mostly during her sleep. The medicines were also affecting her negatively. Some of them made her hyper, some made her so lethargic she couldn't function, and some made her kind of crazy. We tried multiple treatments to try and help her such as diet, supplements, and therapy. We would see fluctuating results. All the while, she just wasn't developing or learning and continued to have daily frequent seizures.
She has undergone multiple testing and seen multiple doctors. Last year, after three days of being in the hospital with video monitoring of her seizures, she was just put on some more medication. At that time, we were told she was not a candidate for surgery as her seizures were coming from different parts of the brain.
In the last couple of months, Morgan's seizures had worsened so much, that we were having to give her the emergency treatments and even called EMS. It was no quality of life for her. We had to do something. We had been so against surgery before, but finally my husband and I had decided we were ok with it and were going to ask the doctors if it was an option now. Well, we didn't even have to ask them because when we got to the appointment, the doctors had looked over her MRI again. After studying her case with a panel of specialists, they had decided that she was now a candidate for surgery. They said they thought they could remove or disconnect most of the areas that were causing the problems.
We are praying and believing that the doctors will be able to get ALL of these problem causing areas. We are believing that ALL seizures will be gone and never return, and medication will no longer be needed. We pray for a speedy recovery with no initial temporary regression( which doctors said was possible). We also pray for total restoration and the ability for her brain to catch up and to learn and develop.

With God ALL things are possible

Thank you all so much for your prayers.
Jeananne, Billy, Will and Morgan Johnson