Rallying together for Emma Searl and family

Hi, my name is Lacey Crawford and sweet Emma is very dear to my heart. After seeing everything her and her family have been through, I wanted to create this page to offer support in their great time of need.

Emma and I share a favorite Christian artist-Lauren Daigle. We were talking about her the other day and I can’t help but connect Emma with these lyrics:

When You don't move the mountains

I'm needing You to move

When You don't part the waters

I wish I could walk through

When You don't give the answers

As I cry out to You

I will trust, I will trust

I will trust in You.

Attached is a summary from her family: Emma had back surgery to repair scoliosis on December 11th. She spent a week in a Lubbock before she was discharged home. We had to bring her back for the surgeon to look at her incision the Saturday before Christmas. On January 2nd, we had a checkup in Lubbock and everything looked great. We made it back to Pampa but ended up calling the ambulance that night due to nausea and high fever. The ER diagnosed her with a UTI and constipation and sent her home on antibiotics. We then had a scheduled appointment on January 5th with her primary doctor. They got results back from cultures and found that she was SEPTIC and the antibiotics were resistant so they had not been working. They sent Emma to Northwest Texas Hospital that night. Her Surgeon wanted us back in Lubbock due to her infection not getting any better and her leaking from the incision site. Wednesday morning the Dr. wanted to take her back to surgery to clean it up in there and check hardware. The surgery went well, but the next day she slept a lot and had a horribly bad headache. Neurosurgery is now involved and running tests on her shunt that is in her brain that drains excess fluid off. We also found out the orthopedic surgeon is going to take her sometime between Saturday and Monday to go BACK TO SURGERY to do another wash out of incision.

On top of everything, they also found a BLOOD CLOT in her arm and possibly in her leg. She will be in the hospital until the wound vac stops draining, then will go home on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Oral antibiotics will follow for 6 months to one year.

This has been a very emotional and exhausting time. We are ready to have our Emma back to being herself! We appreciate the outpouring of love and support more than you’ll ever know.