I received this letter from Joyce:
Hello, my grandson, Dmitri, is 18 years old and may be facing surgery for Scimitar Syndrome. His mother, my daughter, just called me a few minutes ago and gave me the news. He has to undergo a MRA to confirm the doctors’ suspicion. Please pray for him because I know [...]
I received a lovely email from Samantha (“Sam”) whose son, Lucas, has a rare congenital heart defect called Truncus Arteriosus. Lucas is almost 3 years old–such an adorable age. On the 17th, he will undergo his second open heart surgery. “We are a Filipino family,” Sam writes, “and surgery will take place in Singapore.”
Like so [...]
In August of 2009, I connected with a lovely mother, Sylvie Stephens, through my Nathan’s Prayer website. Her baby daughter, Sydney, was a patient at Children’s Hospital in Minnesota. Sylvie and I exchanged long emails over a period of time as we hoped and prayed for Sydney to be healed as she battled a congenital [...]
I received a lovely letter recently from Taylor Lewis, mom of an adorable toddler named Riley Rae. She stumbled across Nathan’s Prayer and wrote that her daughter was also born with congenital heart defects. Riley Rae has double inlet, single left ventricle with transposition of great vessels, and pulmonary valve artesia. She had heart surgery [...]
Guest blog by Jenn Merket
Whenever I think of Valentine’s Day, my first mental image isn’t of a romantic candle-lit dinner for two, or of clinking champagne glasses or a bouquet of roses.
Instead, I am transported back to the early 1990’s, where I sit in a circle of school desks, bedecked in a red and white [...]
