Heart Surgery
Stressful, stressful, stressful. That’s how I would describe these past few weeks. I always dread Nathan’s annual checkup. I know exactly why I have a hard time settling down. Nathan’s heart surgery about five years ago was the most stressful event our family had ever faced. When we got the news that the surgery was [...]
In mid-August, Sam wrote requesting prayer for her son, Lucas, who needed surgery to correct Truncus Arteriosis, a rare congenital heart defect. I received an email over the weekend reporting that the surgery went well! “We were discharged yesterday and he is recovering quite well. I would like to share with you a photo of [...]
My friend, Bob Lopez, a chaplain at a hospital in New York, requests prayer for a little baby girl named Georgia. “She recently had major heart surgery,” Bob reports. “She has an ongoing heart condition, but she is very strong, and her family has much faith.” Prayers to Georgia and her family!
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 [...]
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 [...]
