Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Ethan Update-4/11/08
Here is an update from Kasey. Feel free to leave her comments here as she is checking this blog.
Wonderful Friends and Family,
We cannot thank you each enough for your continued emails of encouragment, your voicemails and MOST importantly, your prayers for our precious baby boy. Over the next several days, I am going to try to respond to each of you, but in the meantime, please accept THIS email as if I was writing it specifically to YOU. We have read your email, and we appreciate your words and the fact that you have told so many others about our son's situation. I am overwhelmed with emotion and humbled at the thought of all of the people nationwide that have heard and that are praying for our baby. God is so good in that way, and I can feel His strength and peace with me minute by minute.
I wanted to provide another update we received today regarding Ethan. Even though we will not have a final diagnosis until next week they are starting him on chemotherapy this evening. Waiting until next week for an answer before providing treatment puts his spleen at risk of rupturing, due to it's enlarged size, and that's a life-threatening just by itself. The spleen is enlarged because it's working overtime to fight off the cancer cells in Ethan's body... however, that's not really the spleen's job. The bone marrow is supposed to handle that aspect of one's body, but Ethan's bone marrow is not functioning. The chemotherapy will help ease the extra work the spleen is doing and help fight the cancer cells. The hope is that the spleen then reduces in size. He will be on chemo continuously for the next 4 days and begin the plan to look for a bone marrow donor. Then next week have a more definite diagnosis and we can start the rest of the treatment.
They have cautiously advised us that his cancer is more than likely what they call JMML (rare form of luekemia) and is very hard to treat. The have also advised that this will be a long road in regards to his treatment and that it will not be easy. Ethan is at risk every step of the way; however, I'm not limiting my son to those terms. He has been so wonderful throughout all of this so far. He smiles at us, he takes his bottle, and he acts just like he always has. Yes, my little boy (who's not even 3 months old yet) is very sick... BUT I believe he can be healed in an instant and I'm holding onto that hope every day.
Your prayers and your care help to quiet my anxious spirit. Even through the tears, I can feel a peace and a strength that's not my own and I know it is of the Lord. We truly cannot thank you enough for spreading the word of our son's condition and for all of the prayers that have been said because you sent our request to someone that you know.... it's truly amazing.
I was thinking last night as I laid here in the hospital bed about the story in the Bible where Jesus preformed a miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding. And I thought, if He cared enough about that couple's needs on their wedding day to provide a proper drink for their guests.... how much MORE does he care for a young, sick child. I am praying for a miracle here, and continue to ask for you to do the same.
I wish I could better express my gratitude for your love and support, but know that we are truly thankful for and continually encouraged by you.
I'll continue to be in touch....
Love,
Kasey
(from Linsey: Thank you for your prayers and please leave your comments and encouragement for Kasey.)
Wonderful Friends and Family,
We cannot thank you each enough for your continued emails of encouragment, your voicemails and MOST importantly, your prayers for our precious baby boy. Over the next several days, I am going to try to respond to each of you, but in the meantime, please accept THIS email as if I was writing it specifically to YOU. We have read your email, and we appreciate your words and the fact that you have told so many others about our son's situation. I am overwhelmed with emotion and humbled at the thought of all of the people nationwide that have heard and that are praying for our baby. God is so good in that way, and I can feel His strength and peace with me minute by minute.
I wanted to provide another update we received today regarding Ethan. Even though we will not have a final diagnosis until next week they are starting him on chemotherapy this evening. Waiting until next week for an answer before providing treatment puts his spleen at risk of rupturing, due to it's enlarged size, and that's a life-threatening just by itself. The spleen is enlarged because it's working overtime to fight off the cancer cells in Ethan's body... however, that's not really the spleen's job. The bone marrow is supposed to handle that aspect of one's body, but Ethan's bone marrow is not functioning. The chemotherapy will help ease the extra work the spleen is doing and help fight the cancer cells. The hope is that the spleen then reduces in size. He will be on chemo continuously for the next 4 days and begin the plan to look for a bone marrow donor. Then next week have a more definite diagnosis and we can start the rest of the treatment.
They have cautiously advised us that his cancer is more than likely what they call JMML (rare form of luekemia) and is very hard to treat. The have also advised that this will be a long road in regards to his treatment and that it will not be easy. Ethan is at risk every step of the way; however, I'm not limiting my son to those terms. He has been so wonderful throughout all of this so far. He smiles at us, he takes his bottle, and he acts just like he always has. Yes, my little boy (who's not even 3 months old yet) is very sick... BUT I believe he can be healed in an instant and I'm holding onto that hope every day.
Your prayers and your care help to quiet my anxious spirit. Even through the tears, I can feel a peace and a strength that's not my own and I know it is of the Lord. We truly cannot thank you enough for spreading the word of our son's condition and for all of the prayers that have been said because you sent our request to someone that you know.... it's truly amazing.
I was thinking last night as I laid here in the hospital bed about the story in the Bible where Jesus preformed a miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding. And I thought, if He cared enough about that couple's needs on their wedding day to provide a proper drink for their guests.... how much MORE does he care for a young, sick child. I am praying for a miracle here, and continue to ask for you to do the same.
I wish I could better express my gratitude for your love and support, but know that we are truly thankful for and continually encouraged by you.
I'll continue to be in touch....
Love,
Kasey
(from Linsey: Thank you for your prayers and please leave your comments and encouragement for Kasey.)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Face for the Prayer
This is the Baby Ethan I have asked you to pray for...this picture was from Easter.
Ethan with his mom, Kasey "McMillan" Krawic
Ethan with his mom, Kasey "McMillan" Krawic 
Ethan with his daddy
Please keep them in your prayers. Ethan is getting blood transfusions and is on antibiotics because they do not yet know how to treat him. Things are not looking good, so please pray hard for healing, wisdom for the doctors, peace and strenght for his parents and strenght and healing for Ethan.
Please keep them in your prayers. Ethan is getting blood transfusions and is on antibiotics because they do not yet know how to treat him. Things are not looking good, so please pray hard for healing, wisdom for the doctors, peace and strenght for his parents and strenght and healing for Ethan.
Update on Baby Ethan
(please keep praying, I will keep you posted)
Hello again,
First let me say thank you to those who have sent us an email or a phone call. I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to respond to you individually, but PLEASE KNOW that your words have touched mine and Adam's heart and have been very encouraging for us. Word has spread of our precious baby's condition and the amounts of people praying are overwhelmingly touching to us.
One of the specialists on Ethan's case came to see us about what they know so far... and unfortunately, the news wasn't good. Ethan is a very sick boy - though you can't really tell by looking at him... he still looks just as cute and adorable as ever. But, internally we have a different story. His blood and possibly his DNA is just very diseased, and the rough news is that the most common form of luekemia found in children is NOT what he has. He has something that is very rare and uncommon. They have sent his blood work to the Mayo Clinic, a speciality hospital in San Fransico, Philadelphia and Boston. They are organizing a team of experts all over the country to help properly diagnose exactly what this is. The good news is that whatever treatment is determined, can be done here in this hospital, but we still do not know what that is right now. They've told us that we probably will not know exactly what strand he has until this time next week, which means they can't do treatment until they know for sure. In the meantime, Ethan will continue to receive blood transfusions and antibiotic. They are also watching his spleen since it's so enlarged.
We are trying to remain calm and be strong, and not let our minds wander. But we know that as of right now, things do not look good (they've been very honest with us about things). But, we've not given up on our little trooper, nor have we given up on the Lord and His plan. I refuse to let go of the peaceful hope I have that Ethan is in God's hands and the Lord needs this to happen right now because of a greater good He wants to accomplish. Knowing that, is a great source of encouragement to me, because I know God wouldn't allow this if it wasn't absolutely necessary. It's still hard of course, and the tears are sometimes unable to be stopped.... but I have hope.... we have hope.
I will update as we know more.
Love,
Kasey
Hello again,
First let me say thank you to those who have sent us an email or a phone call. I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to respond to you individually, but PLEASE KNOW that your words have touched mine and Adam's heart and have been very encouraging for us. Word has spread of our precious baby's condition and the amounts of people praying are overwhelmingly touching to us.
One of the specialists on Ethan's case came to see us about what they know so far... and unfortunately, the news wasn't good. Ethan is a very sick boy - though you can't really tell by looking at him... he still looks just as cute and adorable as ever. But, internally we have a different story. His blood and possibly his DNA is just very diseased, and the rough news is that the most common form of luekemia found in children is NOT what he has. He has something that is very rare and uncommon. They have sent his blood work to the Mayo Clinic, a speciality hospital in San Fransico, Philadelphia and Boston. They are organizing a team of experts all over the country to help properly diagnose exactly what this is. The good news is that whatever treatment is determined, can be done here in this hospital, but we still do not know what that is right now. They've told us that we probably will not know exactly what strand he has until this time next week, which means they can't do treatment until they know for sure. In the meantime, Ethan will continue to receive blood transfusions and antibiotic. They are also watching his spleen since it's so enlarged.
We are trying to remain calm and be strong, and not let our minds wander. But we know that as of right now, things do not look good (they've been very honest with us about things). But, we've not given up on our little trooper, nor have we given up on the Lord and His plan. I refuse to let go of the peaceful hope I have that Ethan is in God's hands and the Lord needs this to happen right now because of a greater good He wants to accomplish. Knowing that, is a great source of encouragement to me, because I know God wouldn't allow this if it wasn't absolutely necessary. It's still hard of course, and the tears are sometimes unable to be stopped.... but I have hope.... we have hope.
I will update as we know more.
Love,
Kasey
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Please Pray
I received this email tonight. My eyes are tearful and my head is praying for that 2% chance.
Friends,
I am asking your help in praying for our sweet, little 11 week old son, Ethan. After taking him to the doctor yesterday for what we thought might be a cold or virus, we were sent to the local children's hospital for bloodwork. Everything that happened after that can only be described as indescribable shock. We were told that Ethan's white blood cell count was dangerously high, his blood platelats dangerously low, and his spleen was enlarged. He was in fact a sick boy, but this was much bigger that a cold or virus. After further tests, they called in a specialist to let us know that they were 98% sure Ethan has Luekemia. We were immediately admitted into the hospital last night and have been here ever since... as Ethan has undergone more tests (bone marrow, spinal tap, etc).
We are now waiting to hear back on the results from the tests he's taken today to confirm what type of Luekemia he has and what our treatment plan will be (chemotherapy, etc). Needless to say, Adam and I (as are the grandparents and other friends and family) are in a state of emotional shock. You think your precious little baby might have a slight cold, and you then hear the words CANCER. You just can't describe how you feel and what you're thinking because you're just overall... numb. We are extremely blessed to have our parents here and to have such a strong church family. Prayer chains immediately went out to everyone in our church and surrounding churces and I can honestly say that Adam and I can feel God's peace and strength even now as we wait to hear more about our precious baby.
I haven't had a chance to call all of you because there has just been so much going on, but I was able to get on email here for a minute and just want to ask you to pray for Ethan. Pray that they find out exactly what is causing the disease in his blood and that the treatment will be both effective and fast. They've advised that he will probably be here for a few weeks - possibly longer - but we know that God can change anything and we are praying for a miracle.
My most sincerest thanks to you in advance for your prayers. I will try to get online again soon and send an update when we know more. We can feel God's peace, but it's still a very sad time to see your baby go through what he's had to go through yesterday and today.
Please pray for my son....
Tearful, but hopeful hugs,
Kasey
Friends,
I am asking your help in praying for our sweet, little 11 week old son, Ethan. After taking him to the doctor yesterday for what we thought might be a cold or virus, we were sent to the local children's hospital for bloodwork. Everything that happened after that can only be described as indescribable shock. We were told that Ethan's white blood cell count was dangerously high, his blood platelats dangerously low, and his spleen was enlarged. He was in fact a sick boy, but this was much bigger that a cold or virus. After further tests, they called in a specialist to let us know that they were 98% sure Ethan has Luekemia. We were immediately admitted into the hospital last night and have been here ever since... as Ethan has undergone more tests (bone marrow, spinal tap, etc).
We are now waiting to hear back on the results from the tests he's taken today to confirm what type of Luekemia he has and what our treatment plan will be (chemotherapy, etc). Needless to say, Adam and I (as are the grandparents and other friends and family) are in a state of emotional shock. You think your precious little baby might have a slight cold, and you then hear the words CANCER. You just can't describe how you feel and what you're thinking because you're just overall... numb. We are extremely blessed to have our parents here and to have such a strong church family. Prayer chains immediately went out to everyone in our church and surrounding churces and I can honestly say that Adam and I can feel God's peace and strength even now as we wait to hear more about our precious baby.
I haven't had a chance to call all of you because there has just been so much going on, but I was able to get on email here for a minute and just want to ask you to pray for Ethan. Pray that they find out exactly what is causing the disease in his blood and that the treatment will be both effective and fast. They've advised that he will probably be here for a few weeks - possibly longer - but we know that God can change anything and we are praying for a miracle.
My most sincerest thanks to you in advance for your prayers. I will try to get online again soon and send an update when we know more. We can feel God's peace, but it's still a very sad time to see your baby go through what he's had to go through yesterday and today.
Please pray for my son....
Tearful, but hopeful hugs,
Kasey
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