Prayer Requests and Monday Happenings

Our 2 Mama's-to-be, Jessica and Mikki.

First of all, I need to ask everyone to pray for Jessica. She is a sick puppy as I type this.

Jessica woke up early Monday morning, during the night, really, vomiting. After several hours of nonstop vomiting and not being able to keep anything down at all, Jason made the wise decision to take her to the emergency room. She was severely dehydrated and they immediately started an IV to get fluids into as fast as possible.

After drawing blood and doing some lab work, the doctors determined that she has a particularly nasty urinary tract infection. She has fever, nausea, vomiting, the whole nine yards. After receiving 2 bags of IV fluids and antinausea drugs, they allowed her to go home with more antinausea meds and antibiotics, with orders to come back to the ER if she is no better or gets worse. She is also to take it easy for a few days, and no work.

Please pray for my baby girl and her baby if you are a praying person. I covet your prayers for them. I know many of you are already praying for them and for Mikki and baby Seth, and mere words cannot express how much I appreciate your love and concern for them.

As for Mikki, she is about the same, and still in the hospital. Cecil, Sue and I went to see her this afternoon and she had a fetal monitor on while we were there. How amazing to hear little Seth's heartbeat bipping away! He had the hiccups for a while and we could even hear that, and see Mikki's tummy shaking with his hiccups. How dear and precious it was.

You wouldn't believe all the medications poor Mikki is taking, trying to buy all the time for Seth that she possibly can. She is already on 3 blood pressure meds, and she is already taking the maximum dosages of all of them now, and that's in addition to several other medications.

As of Sunday her doctor told her if she goes into labor on her own they won't stop it. She will be 35 weeks on Wednesday and they hope to get her to 37 weeks if possible. Her doctor hasn't said anything about her going home, and we're thinking she may be in the hospital for the remainder of her pregnancy, however long that might be at this point.

Please keep praying for Mikki and baby Seth, and thank you again for your prayers on their behalf. I'm thankful for Christian friends who will help me lift up prayers for my loved ones.

Please don't hesitate to ask me if you or your loved ones are in need of prayer. I would consider it a priviledge to serve you as you have served me when I've asked for your prayers.Cecil, Sue and I were in Jonesboro today to celebrate Cecil's birthday with lunch together. We went to a local Chinese buffet and it was pretty good today. Of course we usually eat lunch out on Mondays when we're together anyway so we'd have probably eaten out even if it hadn't been Cecil and Donna's birthdays on Monday. Poor Donna had to work today, bless her heart.

After we ate our lunch we went to visit Mikki. Mikki is in one of the 2 hospitals in Jonesboro and Jessica was at the other hospital's ER at the same time. Thank God Jessica got to go home.

We only stayed a couple of hours with Mikki, then we came back to my apartment for an hour or so before we went back to Trumann for a ladies' meeting at my church.

That was the extent of my day. Cecil has to work Tuesday and won't be here. Usually Mondays and Tuesdays are her days off, but she has to work this Tuesday. I don't know if Jessica will feel like driving the 5 minutes here to visit with me and let me baby her.
My sister, Donna, posted this picture and I wanted to share it here. I was either 4 or 5 when this was taken. It's dated Nov. '68 but my family is notorious for taking their time getting pictures developed. I think this was taken in late Winter of '68 rather than November, which would make me 4 years old when this was taken.

From left to right, that's me, Sue's oldest daughter, and Cecil. Cecil was 3 here.

Believe it or not, I remember very well the day this picture was taken. That coat I have on was red with a black collar and it was wool. Scratchy wool. I absolutely despised it and was so glad when Mama decreed that it was too small and ready to be passed down to Cecil!

I think that's about all the news I can share right now. If anything new develops with either Mikki or Jessica I'll update here.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Love and blessings...