Surgery!

Yesterday we woke up to an email from Oleg, our facilitator in Oksana's country, that gave us quite a shock. He informed us that Oksana had surgery recently. He had been to the hospital to bring her some goodies and had attached pictures. My first reaction was "WHAT?!?!". Then as I opened the pictures I realized it was a surgery related to her CP. I have emailed him to ask if he has details and I am waiting to hear back. I have a friend who was a nurse at Shriners Hospital in St. Louis and she gave me a good guess as to what the surgery could have been. I'm waiting for official word though. Here are the pictures he sent:

This is the grocery cart full of stuff that he brought to her! We are so thrilled that he took the time to visit her and have been very impressed with him just from our limited contact with him already.


This is Oksana at the hospital. Oleg thinks that she is back at the orphanage by now. My friend indicated that she may be in these casts for up to 2 months. Notice the 2 cookies in one hand, 1 cookie in the other, and she's looking in the bag:). What a precious girl!


We are, of course, still waiting on our clearance from immigration. We sent off 2 grant applications and are excited to see what comes of that. It won't be long!