Merry Christmas! We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas. We hope you enjoy the pictures of our Christmas miracle! This hat came on 12 month old Christmas outfit that was given to us. My 2 pounder fits inside of it! We have had a day of ups and downs. As you can tell from the pictures, Zoey had to be put on oxygen this morning. Yesturday, she started desating. This means that her oxygen saturation level has started dropping. She has not had trouble with this before. She is still breathing on her own. The 'quality' of the oxygen that she is breathing on her own is what is dropping. This nasal canula is helping to give her quality of oxygen a boost. Even on the oxygen help, they have had a hard time stabilizing her oxygen level. The doctors don't seem to be very concerned because her heart rate is stable and she is breathing well. They said it is probably just due to the fact that her lungs are premature. They will be doing blood work on her either tonight or tomorrow morning. She has also been very lethargic today, which is very uncharacteristic of my fiesty girl. We are specifially asking for prayer that her oxygen levels will go back up. We are also praying that the blood work will have good reports. We continue to speak and pray her name "LIFE" over her. She is amazing and God has blessed us this Christmas with a miracle despite the ups and downs of today. Mark and I appreciate all of your incredible prayer support. We feel God's arms around us.
This year Chrismas has taken on a different hue for us. It has been anything but typical. We have missed being home, missed traditions, missed our family. We have seen God's hand, but it has still been emotional and hard. We read a devotion today and wanted to share it with you in summation of what Christmas has meant to us this year:
As the year draws to a close, Christmas offers its wonderful message: Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn't come to frighten us, but to show us the way to warmth and safety.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people. Luke 1 :68
We love you!
Mark, Macy and Zoey
Mark, Macy and Zoey,
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas. We have prayed all day that God would guide you to peace and comfort and that He would fill you with His Spirit. Zoey has the best source of oxygen in all of the earth and that is the Holy Spirit of God. We will continue to pray that His child will be filled with the breath of life. We know there will be ups and downs in the journey to bring her home. God is preparing each one of you and drawing you to His heart. He desires so much for you to each seek His kingdom and His will for your lives and to rest in Him alone. Nothing that has happened over the last two weeks has taken God by surprise. Nothing that happened on Christmas over two thousand years ago was without a plan by a loving and caring God. He still resides with us and your little Zoey is the constant reminder of this. We pray that you will find the way tonight to warmth and safety as you rest in Him. We love you, Pop Pop and Grammy