Monday, September 8, 2008
I was goose-bumpy tonight after a phone conversation with a complete stranger. Our wonderful pediatrician had a nutritionist friend of hers contact me about Evie’s “failure to thrive”. A pleasant South African lady called and introduced herself as Lere. She graciously offered suggestions in her beautiful manner (Ive always had a thing for accents) for how to increase Evie’s intake. After a helpful conversation, she explained that she actually knew us and had been praying for our little girl for months.
Bear with me as I try to unravel this one…
In Ukraine, we hosted a small group in our home on a weekly basis. Maria was a precious lady from South Africa and joined our group about 18 months ago. When all of the drama began with Evie in January, our small group in Ukraine began to pray vigilantly. Maria passed the prayer request along to her teammates Hene and Katie. They in turn forwarded prayer needs on to all their friends in South Africa and the States. (we’ve never even met Hene and Katie). So this woman Lere who called me today just happened to be friends of this couple and was receiving prayer updates on Evie…and was furthermore passing them on to her prayer partners, supporters and friends.
I stand in awe as the Lord gives me a tiny glimpse of His perspective of the “rippling effect” of prayers across the globe.
Intricate…
Complex…
Overlaping…
Intertwining…
A sweet offering of prayers before Him.
A beautiful thing!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
So this is her package. Morning and night, Evie takes:
3 different meds for reflux
Nystatin for thrush
A diuretic for fluid on her lungs
A capsule through a nebulizer for asthma.
…And this is paired down from when she came home from the hospital and was on different heart meds treating her arrhythmia’s.
Goodness! Gonna take more than a “spoon full of sugar” to help this go down:-) She is a trooper and tolerates them so much better than she used to. A bit of an irony when your child throws up reflux medicine…what then?
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Although it hasn’t been analyzed by the physician yet, we have a preliminary reading back. There appear to be no vascular abnormalities, tumors or reasons for the low oxygen saturations that she frequently has. Yesterday doctors told us they were looking for damaged lung tissue that may require invasive surgery to remove part of the lung. We are praising the Lord that this does not look like it will be necessary. Certainly a relief!! However, this leaves us again asking the question “why”?!!!
Our doctor friend who gave us the report was very gentle in her evaluation, but is advising that the next thing to test for is cystic fibrosis. Its easy to become overwhelmed by the possible “what ifs”. This precious child is a constant reminder to surrender fears and anxiety before the Lord. His strength…perfect in our weakness!
Thank you all for praying us through her CT scan today. Keep lifting her up as we seek to discover and treat her condition. How blessed I feel to mother this special little girl.
