Praise God for his might works!

Baby Veiyah has opened her eyes! The Dr. also took off her chest incision tape and the incision looks like it is healing very well! If you've read some of my previous post, you know that we have been praying for this little one, born around the same time as Jude. You can check out her story here. I am amazed by God's power to heal from apparently completely bleak situations. I am inspired by this family's complete reliance on Him to carry them through this trial.

Here is an except from yesterday from Veiyah's mommy, Ani:

"Veiyah is continuing to show us how powerful her middle name really is!

Jael "God's Power"

She survived 3 open heart surgeries in 6 days. She isn't even 11 lbs yet. She was supposed to die 6 hours after birth. We were then being handed her over to us to die in our arms only to stop all machines and drop every Dr's/Nurses/Staff/OUR jaws. She made it through her first open heart surgery 3 weeks after birth at only 33 weeks gestation. Her twin sister died from SVT, Veiyah slipped into SVT and we said to ourselves that it was over. She was healed and hasn't slipped back since the first day it happened. (some Dr's disagree with me on that, but i'll explain that later)

Bowel surgery came on December 15th. She was 2.5 months old. 2 weeks old gestation. Malrotation. She then 2 days later "coded" and was bagged and chest compressed back to a fuller life. We went home for 22 days. She was Life Flighted to UIHC due to low blood oxygen and was given an emergent balloon cath procedure that we were told she "may die during this procedure". She survived and then thrived and we went home a week later. We went home for 6 days. She turned blue twice that week that we were home and we admitted her to UIHC on Friday, February 6th. Wednesday February 11th, she underwent open heart surgery called the "Glenn" and had complications where they had to place and extra shunt to get through it. Four days of no real improvement later,Sunday Feb 15, Dr Davis made the decision to go back in and take down the original Glenn. While in there, cleaned it out and it looked fine, so kept her chest open to see how she'd do. It only spiraled from there. Monday Feb 16 emergency surgery was taken on a 3rd time to take down the Glenn and put an extra shunt in.

This baby that was predicted to die and her twin predicted to live, is ALIVE and is a living PROOF of our Most High King. If anyone wants proof of a miracle, I can send you the paperwork from the staff here that doesn't explain why she has made it thus far. Just say the words.

They took out Veiyah's chest tubes today. She is still intubated but they did a pressure test to see if she could handle being extubated soon, and she passed with flying colors. They are slowely going down on her sedation/pain meds to get her to a place where she'll be awake enough to remember to breathe when they extubate her. This will hopefully happen w/in the next day or so. Veiyah had 2 blood clots from after her pic line in December. They never changed, never moved, and they have NOW gotten smaller."

God's Protecting Hand

I've said this before on the blog: every morning that Jeff leaves for Gwinnett, I pray for God to protect him on the way and on shift. He's shown me once that He hears this prayer and He showed me again this morning.

Someone hit the Saturn from behind, rendering it completely inoperable (I'm talking both airbags, no more back seat inoperable) and then left the accident scene. The car was thrown from one side of the interstate to the other, but Jeff was completely unharmed.

Then as God would have it, a DeKalb County firefighter was driving by. He stopped and helped Jeff get all the stuff out of the car when another DeKalb firefighter came along and got the bumper and Jeff's gear bag out of the middle of the interstate. One of the firefighters took him on to work and the police said the figured they got the guy who hit Jeff a couple of miles up the road (possible a drunk driving thing).

So, if anyone knows where I can trade in a nice pickup truck for a couple of cheap cars:-) let me know. I figure it won't be too easy for fit two parents and a car seat into the Ranger.

Prayer Answered

God showed me in a very interesting way this morning just how He answers my prayers.

Every morning that Jeff leaves at 4:00am for Atlanta to go on shift (and when he was in the academy), I pray before I go back to sleep that God will keep him safe on the long drive. He always calls me at 6:15 to let me know that he has arrived safely. But this morning, he had a story for me.

We had thunder storms over night and it was still raining pretty heavily when Jeff left today. So, instead of going the normal 65 mph that you can go on that stretch of I-75, he was only going 50. Suddenly, he came upon a car in the middle lane that did not have any lights on and was driving maybe 35 mph.

Jeff swerved the car to the left to avoid this car, but the road was very wet and his car spun completely around, in the left lane, nearly hitting the guard wall.

In God's providence, there were no cars in the left lane at that time (odd that there would be no cars in the fast lane in Atlanta at 5:00 in the morning) and the car never stalled out, and Jeff was able to continue on, unscathed.

If there had been a car coming in that lane (or if he would have hit the wall) it would have torn right through our little plastic Saturn. I never dreamed that I would get such a vivid answer to the prayer I pray two - three mornings a week.

(Jeff said the driver of the other car finally turned on four way flashers after Jeff's 360.)