April 15, 2008
· Filed under Family, Prayer requests, Travel
Luke and I and the three kiddos will be leaving Mississippi on Thursday morning headed for Texas in our overloaded minivan. Please pray for safety in travel, and that the kids will do well during the trip. Also, Luke will be flying out of DFW on Saturday the 19th for a mission trip to Mexico. He will be gone 8 days…..8 long days. We have never been apart for that long, and I am not looking forward to it. But I know it is for a good reason. Please pray for the mission team from our church and association as they minister physically and spiritually in Mexico.
I’ll try to update while I’m in Fort Worth. Until then….gotta get packin’!
March 27, 2008
· Filed under Pictures, Prayer requests
I would like to ask everyone to pray for a friend of mine, Heather Weed, and her family. They are in the process of adopting a beautiful little girl from China they have already named Hannah Grace. They are hoping to go in June or September to bring her home with them. Please pray for Hannah’s health, for travel mercies for Alan and Heather, and mostly, for God to be honored through it all.
March 27, 2008
· Filed under Family, Kids, Pictures, Prayer requests
Many of you know about what happened with our daughter Kyleigh when she was born. Actually it is the reason she and Riley were born on that day. During my weekly fetal stress test on that Thursday morning, Kyleigh’s heart rate was extremely high (about 230-250 bpm) so the doctor wanted to deliver them that afternoon. After delivery the doctors were unable to convert her heart to a normal rate and rhythm so she was transferred to a hospital down the street with a NICU. After several doses of medicine, they were able to keep her heart rate normal. The condition is known as supra ventricular tachycardia (SVT). The doctors at that hospital were in contact with a pediatric cardiologist at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on several occasions faxing EKGs and other test results. She stayed in the NICU for a week before coming home on daily medication. At that point, we were referred to the doctor at UAB for follow up and made the first trip on November 6 when she was only six weeks old. After reviewing Kyleigh’s previous EKGs and the one from that day, the doctor diagnosed her with Wolf Parkinson White syndrome or WPW, for short. That is a long name which basically means that her heart has an extra electrical path that caused it to race.
Today (Tuesday), I am actually typing this in the back of our van on the way home from our second trip to UAB. Kyleigh had another EKG and the doctor described it as NORMAL! Praise the Lord! He answers prayers! The doctor said that it looks like she is probably outgrowing the WPW. Although she will remain on a very low dose of her medication until she is one year old, if the next EKG is still normal, and she has not had any episodes of SVT, then we can discontinue the medication at that point. We are so grateful to everyone for their prayers over these last six months. Please continue to pray that Kyleigh will not have any episodes of SVT, and that she will outgrow this condition. We know that God is the Great Physician, and we give him all praise, honor and glory for this miracle!
Getting weighed
EKG time
