Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Please pray for my friend and her baby

I want to invite anyone that can to pray for one of my closest friends. She and her husband (Bri and Jeff) had been trying for 4 years to get pregnant. I was able to be with her for a sonogram and we were able to see the baby and everything looked great (and we suspected a little boy). She was relieved that everything looked to be normal and progressing well. However, she went to a sonogram last week and the doctor found a concern and so they did some further testing. She sent me this e-mail this week:

I got some very unfortunate news from the doctor this week and our baby (a boy) has a problem with his heart. The fetal specialist and the heart specialist we were referred to (a sadly pro-choice bunch) gave us next to a zero chance that Smurf [affectionate name to pre-born baby] could survive, but my own doctor (who is more pro-life than I ever would have guessed) called me this morning to tell me that he thinks the two specialists are being too pessimistic.

Starting tomorrow I'm going on bed-rest and starting some medicines that they hope will be helpful while I work from home. Joe [boss at work] was incredibly kind about this which was a massive answer to a very sudden prayer. Still, even my own doctor says the chances are low no matter what we try, outside of prayer. Basically I need Smurf to grow another few pounds, last another six weeks in the womb, and not haveheart failure. None of those things are incredibly likely without prayer, but I happen to be one of the luckiest people in the world when it comes to finding prayer warriors quickly.

God is good, and he is a God of life, so no matter what happens, we'll all be fine. Feel free to share this request with anyone you know, the more the merrier.

Please pass this on to other prayer warriors you know,
Thank you,
Kelle

1 comments:

ASsquared said...

Strangely Bri & her pregnancy have been on my heart lately so I started praying for them. Now that I read this post I know how to better direct my prayers.