Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Need some prayers

Lorena and I worked together as ER Techs while she was in nursing school and I was in paramedic school. We were weight buddies---we both lost, and gained, together. We finished school around the same time and ended up going our separate ways. She got hired as a nurse and I was hired by the fire department.

As it would be, Facebook brought us back together. I found out she had her ups and downs with her weight, as I did, but she did awesome and finally overcame her battle. She had successfully had gastric bypass surgery and it changed her life. Come to find out, she lives about 25 minutes away from our new place. She became pregnant and delivered a baby boy, Carson, at 8pm tonight.

Tonight should be the happiest night of her life, but her other son, Julian, who I think is 9, is fighting for his. Monday he was hospitalized. They think a virus attacked his liver and put him in septic shock. Right now he is on a ventilator so he doesn't have to work so hard to breath and he's on dopamine to keep his pressure up.

Please, please, please, pray for Julian as well as for Lorena (and family) to get through this all. She's already fought so many battles in her life, she'll get through this one too. Prayers can't hurt though.

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Oh, and the baby was a month early. But doing well....