Prayers Needed

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS

I’m requesting your prayers for a little girl about to face a big surgery.



Let me introduce you to Eileen Elizabeth (aka Ellie).

Ellie was born on October 18th, 2005. She was born without a pulmonary artery and with a hole in her heart. This defect is called Pulmonary Artesia with VSD (hole in the heart).

There are currently only 2 doctors in the US that will do the aggressive surgery that Ellie needs, so on April 3rd, Ellie and her family will be heading to California to have the surgery performed on Friday, April 7th.

Ellie’s doctor will be Dr. Hanley at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

A little about Ellie’s surgery from her Mom:

“Dr. Hanley will do one of two things when he gets into the operating room…he will hopefully get to do a “complete repair”….which is taking Ellie’s two collaterals and making them one…connecting that to a donor Pulmonary Artery and closing the hole in her heart. This would be the BEST outcome because that would mean that she would only need to have the donor piece replaced every 2 to 5 years…depending on her growth…and everything going OK. If he gets in there and does not think he can close the hole right now…he will put a shunt in which would get more blood flow going thru her collaterals and make them grow bigger. We would then have to do the complete repair surgery at a later date. HOPEFULLY all will go well and Dr. Hanley can do a complete repair and a successful surgery.”

Please pray for GOD’s anointing upon this situation; pray for Ellie’s healing; pray for anointing upon Dr. Hanley as he operates; and pray for peace and strength for her family.

Thank you - and I will update as soon as I know something.

I John 3:21-22 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.