Good-bye Hope

I just talked with my friend and she said little baby Hope passed away around 3PM. They also said thank you for praying. Please keep this family in your prayers. This can't be an easy time for them, especially with it being Christmas and the holiday season. I hope all of you are having a better day.

Hope and A Prayer

Hello everyone! I have not blogged in quite a while because I have been quite busy with school work and life in general. This is a good time for me to return to the blogging world. I was thinking about the word "hope" today. Hope can be strong to some people and seen as a weakness to others. Hope also leads to some uncertainty, but in an optimistic sort of way. Having hope reminds us that we are only human and are unable to predict what will happen to us next. This year, there has been some things in my life that I hope would happen and it did. At the same time, some things that I hoped for did not happen either. Hope is expectations. So why do we hope? Well that is a question that I cannot answer for you. For me, it has always been because of what I had my hope in.

"And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You." ~Psalm 39:7

Right now, there is another Hope I want you to think about. The following comes from a friend who has a prayer request for a baby girl named Hope and her family who still has some hope.

"Hope is doing a lot worse than they originally realized. Her heart, kidneys, and liver are not functioning as they should be. She is still on a respirator, and there is still no sign of brain activity.

I got more info as to what happened earlier. I guess that once Nita's water broke the baby was sideways and she delivered the umbilical cord first. When that happens it is difficult to keep the cord from pinching, so they rushed Nita to the hospital for a cesarean. Unfortunately, they cut her E to W but in order to get the baby out they needed to cut N to S - so she ended up getting cut open both directions. No fun. In any case, they finally got Hope out and realized that her lungs were full of liquid. To help them drain they placed tubes inside her lungs. Unfortunately, the tubes were not working correctly, and they did not realize that her lungs were still filled with liquid. It was at least twenty-five minutes before they realized what had happened. Hope ended up going into cardiac arrest - they were able to revive her and they have put her on a respirator/life support and have to give her a whole bunch of different enzymes due to her organs not functioning correctly.

So that's basically where they are now. It's really not looking good. Hope probably will not make it, unless God steps in and performs a miracle. Please pray for Nita and Mark and their five children (Jj (Joseph), Grace, Luke, John, and cocoa (Cosette!)). They're all really struggling with this and rightly so. We haven't been able to get a hold of Christopher (who is overseas with the Navy) yet, so he has no idea what's going on with his family."