Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Please pray for Susannah

Susannah is a little girl in China with a cleft (like Noah and Tao Tao) and a heart condition on top of that. She is gravely ill. She was to meet her family in Kunming, China yesterday to start her adoption. Instead, they met her in the hospital where she is gravely ill.

God has already worked several miracles for this little girl: getting her to an orphanage when she was abandoned, preserving her life until a family was found for her, getting this family to China ASAP to adopt her (their original travel was to be a month from now, but He intervened and there was an earlier apppointment opened up which allowed the family to be in China, now, as their daughter is fighting for her life). They need even more miracles to get her home and treated.

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Here are the family's prayer requests; please include them in your prayers:

1. We need to get her to the US ASAP. (this is going to require God-sized mountain moving) We need to get her out of China.
2. We need the local police to expedite her Chinese Visa. Normally we would be required to go there with her to take photos and they take one of her. (The orphanage director is there now "negotiating" with them to allow a photo of us in the hospital and one of her in the hospital to suffice. MAJOR BIG DEAL. Never been done accd. to orphanage director and our guide. Again, only God moving in the hearts of these people.) This normally takes about 5-6 days
3. We need her to be stable enough to move.
4. We need the quack of a doctor at the hospital to let us take her. (She was the only chinese person who was mean, inconsiderate and rude. She has to sign off on her release. Her teeth are black, she smokes and knows nothing about Susannah's heart though she tried to say she is an "expert." She didn't even use her stethoscope.)
5. We need God to literally carry Susannah on the wings of angels home, for her pulse ox to stay in the 70s or above. Her pulse ox was varying between 60 % and 90 % while we were there. Thankfully we brought a pulse-oximeter with us thanks to some friends from church. They did not even have one on her when we got there. It should be in the 70 % range accd. to Dr. L in order for us to bring her home on the plane.
6. That we can have a supernatural peace; it is very hard to leave her in that hospital but right now we have no other options. We desperately want to just close our eyes and be at Vanderbilt.

2 comments:

Mommy said...

Thank you for posting this. The more prayers the better.

Mommy said...

Did you read the good news last night?