Hello Sunshine

There are no words to describe the last few days.  Since the last post we have run the gamut of emotions as a family and feel a little raw.  I never in a million years imagined after the road we walked with Brylee that anything could push, grow, and challenge our faith and fortitude more.  And yet here we stand.  I am not one to use the word miracle lightly.  Yet every time I have prayed the last many days I have had an overwhelming impression that I needed to pray big, bigger than I could humanly see possible.  Pray like I am watching a miracle.  And I am.  Every time I have walked away from Teagan's bedside I have been emotionally torn between rejoicing over whatever milestone we have hit, even if it was simply remaining stable, versus what major hurdle we have to cross.  We were overwhelmed Sunday to go from the conversation of what would we tell our kids if we didn't ever get to bring Teagan home, to seeing her move for the first time.  We knew though that while her brain worked enough at that moment for her physical body to function, that did not mean that her brain functioned at a level that she would ever know or be aware of who we were.  Each day since we have prayed knowing our wishes may not be answered, but we stepped out in faith and prayed big.  With big prayers, come big answers.

We prayed for increased brain activity and decreased dependency on oxygen.  We didn't just see a slight increase in brain activity, today we saw that her brain is fully functioning.  We didn't just see a decreased dependency on machines, we today got to see her moved off of the machine they use for babies that can't breath on there own at all, to a normal ventilator and then they decreased the oxygen she is receiving on that and it looks like in the next few weeks she will be off of it completely.  Y'all in three days we have gone from being told Sunday morning that it looked like Teagan was dying, to a baby that looked to be brain dead, to today a baby that is functioning!  She still has a long way to go, but the Lord has not just cracked but flung the door wide open for us to get there.  Y'all have been

praying big and we are seeing big answers.  We have been asked countless times over the last week 

what we needed and our answer has been to pray.  It seems like such a contrite response but the Lord 

is using every single one of your prayers in a mighty miraculous way.  The bible says in Matthew 18:20 "Where two or three are gathered in mine name there I am in the midst of them."  He is in the midst of this and we ask you all to continue praying with us.  Please pray as they run more test and scans tomorrow that the swelling in her brain continues to go down, for our three littles at home as 

they are struggling not getting to have there sister with them, and for us as a family that we remain strong in the midst of the road ahead.  We love you all

The Strattons