Dear Prayer Partners and Friends,

        Thank you for praying for Christa’s spinal surgery. She is recovering now and still needs many months of rehab before she can be like normal.

        Jan 24 she went into surgery at Stanford hospital at around 7:30 am. The doctor did not come out to tell me that everything is fine at 2:30 pm. The original schedule was for about 4 and half to 5 hours. I was really worried that something might have gone wrong. There was some spinal fluid leak and the doctor had to sew up the leak. That was why the operation was much longer. The first 24 hours she had to lie flat in the hospital bed. Then she can slowly tilt up to drink and eat. She had to have a lot of painkiller medicine to cope with her pain. They cause her to be hallucinated most of the time. Praise the Lord she got into a very nice room in the new hospital. It is a single room with a sofa bed so I can stay with her overnight. She stayed in Stanford hospital for 6 days and then was transferred to El Camino Acute Rehab Center. This is a reputable center near our home. However, she had to do physical and occupational therapies for 3 hours a day. It was very tiring but needed. Today is the 7th day here and we were told that she is cleared to leave in two days. Praise the Lord.

        Next 8 weeks she will get 3-4 times a week home PT or OT visits. Hopefully by then she can be back to normal. Praise the Lord she is slowly coping with the pain and get reduced dosage of pain medicine.

        Thank you all for praying for us. We give all glory to God.

In Him,                        
John and Christa

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