Pray for Stellan Tonight

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, please take time tonight to pray for Stellan. Really pray. Pray hard.

If you don't know his story, he was diagnosed with SVT in the womb. His parents were told he would not survive. He now is five months old and had been doing relatively well until the last month. Four plus weeks ago he went back into the hospital with SVT. After much consideration, he has been flown to Boston to a specialist and he will definitely be having an ablation (invasive heart surgery) tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST.

However, according to McKMama's twitter and most recent blog update, Stellan is back in a dangerous SVT and it's quite possible they will take him for the surgery tonight. She is in Boston, with her father, and her husband is back in their home state with their three young children.

Here is her prayer request:

Would you pray that Dr. A will have wisdom as to if he should move forward with the ablation after the esophageal study? If he does move forward, would you pray that he will have clarity of mind as far as how aggressive to be with the ablation in order to fix Stellan's problem without putting him at undue risk for complications. Would you pray that the tiny catheters the doctors use will not nick Stellan's coronary artery? Would you pray for peace for me and my husband?

Would you pray that heart block will not occur during the surgery? Would you pray that the extra pathways Stellan has will be located and successfully destroyed? Will you pray that, if they need to go through his septum, that it will heal as it should? Would you pray that in the days after the surgery (In infants, coronary damage sometimes doesn't appear for up to three days, so we'll be here for the rest of the week at least it looks.) we will cling to Jesus and not to fear?

Please join me in prayer tonight.