It’s been a long time to live in crisis--over 450 days, I guess. Right now, my husband is at our baby’s regular baby check up and I have some time to think again. It has taken this long to finally feel like I’m mostly adjusted to my new normal. Having our child struggle with major health problems every day has been the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced....harder than moving and living in a foreign land, harder than losing the comforts of one’s own country, harder than not being able to communicate well in a foreign tongue for 8 years, harder than being on bedrest for over 100 days with the possibility of losing one’s baby... Read more...
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when our little guy was in utero, i had to get face to face with my theology of healing and God’s will. i had multiple problems with my pregnancy and the ultrasounds were showing a developmental abnormality in our baby’s digestive tract. had our son not been born in this first world country, he would’ve died a week ago. he was rushed into the OR for an emergency surgery of his trachea and esophagus that were malformed. right now he waits in the NICU for further healing until he is strong enough to have his next surgery, without which he will be unable to digest food. i am deeply grateful to God that we live in the US with all its advances in medical technology. had we both undergone his birth in a less developed country, we would have both died because i also had several life-threatening complications in surgery and in recovery. thanks to the sovereign will of God choosing LIFE for us, he and we now wait on the Lord for his healing so he can leave the NICU and finally come home to us. Read more... |
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