Here is a picture of our friends Joel and Judy Fitzgerald's baby boy Elijah. Eljah was born on February 6th. He is quite a fighter because he has already been through so much in his life. He came in the world in a usual way but started having problems when he as a few days old. He had a brain bleed and they ended up finding out he has hemophilia B and the most severe form possible. He had to be in the hospital for almost a month and then had an allergic reaction to the factor 9, which is the thing his body needs to make his blood clot. At one point the doctors sent him home to spend his last few days with his family. His parents have had amazing faith and believed God would take care of their little boy. Well he made it about a week and a half at home before they found he had fluid in his chest. So he had to go back into the hospital and have chest tubes and now an abdomin shunt. He had to go in for more surgury on the shunt on Monday and that is a picture of him as hes recovering. Please pray for Elijah and his family as his struggle continues. It has been a rollercoaster and his parents are so strong, but it has to be so hard. He will almost be 3 months old and have only been at home for almost 10 days of it. It is also hard because the hospital he is at is 3 and a half hours from here and they have been there this stay for almost a month. Plus, they still have to figure out how to handle his hemophlia day to day.
On Saturday, we actually took our Youth Group that we lead along with the Fitzgeralds down to Wichita to see them. They are staying at the Ronald McDonald house (which is such an amazing place) and Elijah was having such a greatday that day. Here is a picture of the gowns and masks the kids and us had to wear just to go in his room. The kids actually loved their gowns.
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