Good morning John! 

I know you only post letters on the Five Doves website once per day, but I have a very urgent prayer request and I earnestly ask that you would post it as soon as possible.
 

This is an URGENT prayer request for a little 17 year old girl! 

My daughter’s best friend, Amber is dying.  She has been ill most of her life due to kidney disease.  She had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant for a long, long time, and finally received a kidney transplant back in January.  Her surgery went well and everything seemed to be fine.  But in the last month or so, Amber has developed an infection in her brain and it has caused a lot of swelling and bleeding in her brain.  It is in an area of the brain that controls many organs in her body.  The doctors were not holding out much hope because there was nothing they could do to help her; but over last weekend they believed that some of the swelling was going away and tests that they ran on Amber showed that she had full brain activity.......so our hopes of her recovering were high.  They did another MRI on her on Wednesday and discovered that her brain is swelling and bleeding even more than before.  Amber's family met with doctors yesterday to decide what they need to do.  The doctors said that, basically, Amber's body is still alive but she is gone.  If there is still no improvement by Monday, they are going to disconnect all of her life support.

 

This is so hard......thankfully, I've never had to deal with anything like this.  It's one thing when an old person dies, and even though it hurts and we grieve over it, we know they lived a long and fulfilling life.  But when it is a 17 year old child.......how do you bear it…….I just don’t understand why this child has to die.  I feel so helpless......like I need to do something but I don't know what to do.  I am trying to console my daughter, but it's hard when I am doing well to console myself. I believe in a God that can and does heal people and I know He is a miracle-working God.  I know that everyone on Five Doves are praying people and they believe in the power of prayer…… so I am just asking for all of your prayers this morning........Amber needs a miracle and her precious family and friends need peace that passes all understanding.  Please pray for Amber and for all of us.

 

May the Lord richly bless all of you today.

    Mary Haas