Prayer for Ella..

Yesterday I received a message from one of my best friends and one of the most precious woman I have ever met and I just have to introduce you to her a bit. Yvonne and I met at UK in the NICU, she was a pediatric and medicine resident, which means she was double boarded. And I'm going to stop here too and say she was at the TOP of her med school class. Yvonne was not just smart she was real...I adored her from the moment we met, we instantly connected and one night when she was on call as I cared for premi-babies, and she wrote orders, we became fast friends racing through our lives in conversation growing tentacles of friendship that would ever endure. When I flipped and rolled my SUV on the highway with Hunter aboard (he was 4)surrounded by broken glass and twisted metal...I called 911, then I called Yvonne. She met us in the ER and cared for Hunter as he was treated. I will never forget the comfort I felt when she walked in the room with Hunter on her hip. He was in his T-shirt and his spiderman skives. She had his head covered with gauze where he soon receive stitches. I remember as I tearfully touched his arm and asked him if he was OK, she comforted me by saying every rugged handsome man has at least one face scar...I so appreciated her in that moment....and as she walked out she promised she would not leave my son...Yvonne ended up finishing her residency and getting married to a fellow physician (a talented vascular surgeon). Their life took them to Michigan and after settling in she had one boy, then another, then TRIPLETS, and recently they added the sixth addition to their family. She has one precious daughter Ella, and Ella was born with a heart defect which was going to acquire surgery in the "future". Ella is one of her triplets, her only daughter, precious to her siblings and her Mommy and Daddy, 3.5 years old, with a mop of light brown ringlets that cover her head. This is the message I received from Yvonne yesterday....

Lori,
I know your faith in God is strong. I was wondering if you could pray for my little girl Ella. She is 3 1/2 now and will be having open heart surgery on July 15 for Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries. It is a huge surgery and a very tough recovery.I so appreciate it. To say the least, I am scared. She will be having it at U of M in Ann Arbor by Dr. Bove.Thanks Lori, you have been with me through so much.

This is Miss Ella


Saints prayer works...and I ask each of you to dig deep and pray for this child and family. God is her creator, He knit Ella in her mothers womb, He makes no mistakes. Ella was born in a country where she can have surgery to help correct her heart defect and give her a long future. Please pray that the surgeons hands are exceptionally skilled that day, that there are no complications, that Ella has easily managed pain and recovers astoundingly. Pray for the peace that passes all understanding for her parents. Saints we walk not by sight, and not by fear, but we walk with a sound mind understanding clearly God is good, and He miraculously heals. He is the one who works all things together for good.

Saints please intercede with me for this family...and confess the good outcome with a glad heart. I will keep you updated, and if you would like leave comments as Mama visits my blog...