Well, Sefia is penciled in for surgery Tuesday afternoon.  Unless she gets bumped by a more urgent surgery (we were told this was likely).  It is more likely that she will have it Thursday afternoon instead.  We won't find out until Tuesday morning.  They will be removing the cyst from her abdomen.  It has probably been there for quite some time, but started getting much bigger in the last week or so.  It could have been congenital, or caused by a reaction to a parasite (the body will sometimes wall off a parasite in a cyst as one means of protection).  We still don't know if her anemia was caused by the cyst or is a separate issue.

 

Please pray for her and her doctors, especially Tuesday and/or Thursday.  There have been many many people who have been praying for us and offering support, and we are quite humbled by it.  Thank you.