Baby Kavin Update #4- Surgery Scheduled

REFLECTION:

I overheard Jason talking with someone on the phone.  He said, “Having faith in God is not just for the small things, but for all things in life.  We trust Him in the small, we trust Him in the big.  Since we trust Him for salvation and eternal life, we can also trust Him with Kavin’s life.”  WOW.  My husband amazes me.  I am so thankful we are walking this road hand in hand.

In just over a month our church hosts “baby dedication”.  Jason’s mom mailed the outfit Jason got baptized in… it is sooo cute! I hope Kavin will fit into it.  I was thinking about the whole “dedication” on the way home. How easy it would be for us to stand up in front of family and friends and say, “We dedicate our child to the Lord and to raising Him up to walk in His ways.”  Yet, here we are, at the alter of Abraham offering Issac, His son of promise.  With full faith that God, some way, some how, would restore Issac’s life.  Here we are at the moment when Hannah dedicated her unborn child to the Lord… here we are where Christ is either our Lord… or we are false Christians.  To some He requires other leaps of faith and sacrifices of praise.  But for us, He has brought us to the threshing floor of surrendering our son.

Today as I took a break from the NICU, I asked the Lord for a scripture.  He led me to Psalm 27:1-2; 13-14 “The Lord is my light and my salvation, Whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?… I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.”

I want Kavin’s healing to come quickly… yesterday would have not been soon enough.  When I see him squirming around trying to put his thumb in his mouth, but his respirator is in the way, I just want to pull out all that stuff and hold him, shush him, and tell him everything is okay… but the Lord is calling us to wait upon Him.  I am so thankful we have His promises of faithfulness, purpose, and joy in the midst of trials (James).

The closer we get to surgery, the more faith and strength we need.  Please stand in the gap with us and see the glory of the Lord revealed through Kavin’s life.

MEDICAL UPDATE:

– Surgery tentatively scheduled for Monday at about 7:30 and should take a few hours.  Tentatively is because they need to make sure he is stable enough at that time to the best of their knowledge to be able to undergo surgery.- Please pray that the Lord gives Him breath and sustains him for surgery… or to heal him without!  Whatever would bring the Lord the most glory.

– We saw the x-ray today.  His heart is almost in the right place, just slightly pushed to the left.  His left lung is large, but not fully developed, they are unsure how big the right lung is, as the intestines are in that space, but suspect that it is very small.

Two most life threatening situations with this condition:

1. Pulmonary hypertension: where the pressure of the blood is so high and the openings on the lung tissue so small that the blood cannot get through, causing cardiac arrest because there is too much pressure on the heart.

2. Pulmonary hypoplasia: that the lungs are just too underdeveloped to support his life.

Other concerns:

1. That he will NOT have to go on EKMO or other drastic life sustaining machines, which can cause long term neurological problems and other side effects.

2. That when they place his organs back in the right place, it will be done in a way that makes them fully functional without the need for future surgeries.

3. That there is enough tissue in the diaphragm to be able to stitch up the hole instead of having to use synthetic materials.

4. There are a myrid “what if” situations and possible outcomes… including gastrointestinal problems, neurological, and pulmonary (breathing).  That none of these possibilities would happen and Kavin will be fully whole and healthy.

5. When ever there is surgery, infection is always a possibility. Pray for no infections!

Please pray against these things in the name of Jesus and petition for his life… and anything else the Spirit leads you to pray.

PRAISES:

– Heart is working well.

– Got accepted into Ronald MacDonald house so we can be close to Kavin Sunday-Tuesday.

– Got to touch his foot today!!!  It was a most precious moment :-).

OTHER PRAYER REQUESTS:

1. For God to lead in wisdom by the power of the Holy Spirit all the nurses and doctors that are working on Kavin.  Surgeon’s name is Dr. Applebaum and assistant is Dr. Lemus (in addition the rest of the surgical team, nurses, and doctors.)

2. For the armor of the Lord to protect Kavin from the flaming arrows of the evil one.

3. For the Lord to be the defender of Kavin’s life (Psalm 27:1).

4. For provision for us in all ways to be the parent’s Kavin needs us to be.

5. For the surgery to go smoothly, without incident, and for Kavin to recover quickly and come home! 🙂

6. When Kavin DOES come home, for wisdom to know how to take care of a new born with health issues.  Always asking for divine healing, but trusting for His best for His purposes.

7. For comfort and calmness for Kavin in the meantime. The more active he is, the more unstable.

I Corinthians 1:9-11

Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And he will yet deliver us, you also joining us in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

Thank you for your ministry of prayer!