Prayers for little Bethany

We have a prayer request...remember me telling you about our friend who has brand new twin girls, Grace and Bethany? Well, she also has 3 other children for a total of 5 under 5 years old! Kady's struggle with life in general (getting sleep, getting 5 children ready for the day, enduring the day, then getting 5 children down for the night, as well as breastfeeding 2 twin babies!) has been amazing...now they have a new challenge.

This woman is AMAZING! The struggles she has been through, in her past and her present, as now her future...

Please read the email from Kady and PRAY!! Above are pictures of Cade helping me babysit the twins when they were 7 weeks old...

Hi Friends, I'm sorry that I haven't updated many of you on what's happened with Bethany. She has a very rare condition in infants called Mitral Arcade (or Congenital Mitral Regurgitation). She'll need Open Heart Surgery or possibly a transplant in months / years to come. Her condition is evidently "severe" or serious.. but the doctor feels good about her chances because of how hard she's fought thus far. We don't know how quickly she's been deteriorating so now we have a starting point to compare to. She is on 3 different medications at this point and seems to be tolerating them pretty well. We'll be seeing alot of the pediatric cardiology dept at Mayo and are thankful for their expertise and care. I'm planning on setting up a caring bridge site in the next week (hopefully).. in all of my spare time ;). Karl and I are confident that God's already got all of this figured out and His purposes are so much greater than anything we can imagine. Our prayer requests are for #1 a miracle if that's God's will, #2 her heart to grow stronger and last until she's a little older for surgery.. her chances are far better the older that she is. #3 that she won't have pain from all that her body is having to go through #4 for strength for our family and finally #5 for God to use her for His glory! Please feel free to share this with anyone.... the more prayer warriors the better :) In His Arms, Kady