Hand

My sister called me this morning asking if we have any blood disorders in our family. We don't.

Apparantly at 10pm last night her right index finger really started bothering her. She thought it was from an accidental needle stick at work that day so she ignored. This morning she woke up and her finger was blue. She went into work (she works at a Dr office) and they looked at it. No pulse and no circulation at all and it is starting to spread to her hand and the connecting tissus. She is at the hospital right now waiting to go into surgery. A Vascular surgeon is going to look at it and see if he can't find the problem. If they can't figure out what is wrong with her they told her they will have to remove her finger.

Could you please spare a prayer that my sister get through this? I told her even if she loses a finger that is much better than losing a whole hand. I just want her to be okay.

Thx girls.

Update
My sister is still in the hospital. It will be a full week tomorrow.
She is going in for sugery tomorrow morning and it's pretty serious. In addition to what is going on with her hand she has a blood clot right now that is traveling through her body and on it's way back to her heart.

They plan to do two things during surgery: (medical gals if I explain this wrong pls correct me - she is telling me this after she's gotten her seizure meds and they tend to make her a little loopy)
First they are going to insert a cardiac catheter to break up this clot in order to prevent her from having a stroke or mini stroke. Second, they will insert another catheter through her groin, up through her hip joint, through her subclavian artery and down into her right arm stopping at the wrist. This is b/c they have found 4 clots in her right hand which is causing the lack of circulation that sent her to the hosp in the first place. They aren't even sure if they can save the first finger and they are telling her that she may lose more as they are turning blue too.

There are a lot of risks to this surgery and she is really scared. She keeps telling me she doesn't want to die. She is only 29 yrs old and I just can't believe all of the crap that has happened to her in the last few yrs healthwise.

I hate being so far away from her - I feel so helpless. If you could spare some prayers for her I would really appreciate it.