We are crawling into bed tonight with sad and heavy hearts. One of the mother's we have become close to in the ICU lost her five month old little girl today. The mother is an 18 year old young women named Ning who we have grown to love. Her daughter had some serious issues with her little heart. This morning I sat and talked with Ning for about an hour. She was so excited because a bed finally opened up for her baby to move to a hospital in Chiang Mai where her daughter would be able to get surgery that she needed.
This afternoon in route to Chiang Mai we got a phone call that they didn't make it to Chiang Mai before the baby died. They had run out of oxygen, and in the process of switching oxygen sources the baby started crashing...the nurses gave emergency medications and CPR but were unable to revive her.
We spent this evening at the morgue with them as they bathed, powdered, and dressed her and wept with Ning and her mother.
Jesus...I know you are here in the midst of all of this pain...but can you please come a little closer? Please surround Ning and her mother tonight as they crawl into bed and weep themselves to sleep. Be with the other families with babies in the ICU who are hurting. Be near us...be all around us...give us your peace.
give Olive a peaceful night of sleep.
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SO MUCH pain and heartache in your world right now! Not only your own but all of the people you have met and are coming to love in the nicu. And, what a blessing you are being to them~ God is being so honored by you.
Thank God you were there to be with Ning! I can't imagine her pain.
My heart breaks for the pain you have been enduring and for the other families in the NICU. However, God is using you in the midst of these trials. Your friend was able to feel the presence of God's comfort by you being there. Your daughter is a beautiful child of Christ who has brought so many people together from all different walks of life. Her life is not in vain. May God's healing hands lay upon precious Olive Hope and his arms wrap around you and Rusty.
This story really touched me. God bless you for reaching out to others during your own pain.
God is near, Rusty and Lynette,
God's light is truly shinning through you, in this difficult time of your young life. In the letter's you share with us, and Thank you so much by the way. I am sure you are Letting God's light shine through you pain to reach the other parents in the ICU area. May God peace souround you In Christ alone Lu Deboer
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matt 11:28
Continue to rest in Him for He is your strength. Praying for a miracle for baby Olive Hope and for rest and peace for the two of you and for your families.
Don & DeeEtta Pullar
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