Bill's brother, Ethan and his girlfriend, Coral are having a baby girl soon, Alaxa Skye. We request prayer for her, the parents and the family.
We recently learned that she has been diagnosed with a diaphragm hernia, which I believe is a birth defect called CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia). It basically is where the diaphragm didn't close properly early in gestation and so abdominal organs were allowed to move into the chest cavity. It is life threatening because the lungs and/or heart are prevented from fully developing because of space constraints from the other organs invading the chest cavity. She has been given a 60/40 chance.
There is a surgery that can be done after birth to rearrange the organs and repair the hernia, but the real key is getting the lungs and heart to work properly.
They are in Montana and are going to come here to Seattle's UW Hospital for delivery and then Children's hospital for surgery, healing, etc.
We first request prayer that God's will is to be complete healing for Alaxa Skye. We also request prayer for new Mom & Dad as they go through the tough road that is to come, emotionally and physically. Also pray for their situation logistically. Ethan seems to only be able to be here for a really short period of time due to work obligations, which then leaves Coral by herself recovering from delivery (c-section maybe) and baby in the hospital. Pray that we can be a support to them all since we are in the area. I have never met Coral, but want to be as much support as I can and show God's love.
Coincidentally, I was following a blog in April/May of a friend of a friend going through the same situation. They are very strong in their faith and continually showed that in their daily blog posts as they were with their daughter for her 20 days of life. Looking back, I may have been lead to follow that blog to prepare me with words of comfort for my brother in law and "sister in law". Ethan is a young 22 years old.
Thank you. I will post updates as I know them.
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Sadly this must becoming a new thing because the girl who does my hair, her little sister is pregnant with her first baby, a girl too, and found out the baby has the same thing. It is so, so sad. I cannot even imagine becoming pregnant for the first time then finding out this. They gave her baby girl only a 10% chance. So incredibly sad! I will surely keep them in my thoughts.
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