prayers for baby ricky

Some of you (Mom, Dad, Rochelle) know my friend Meghan. At the beginning of this past summer, she became a foster mom for a baby named Ricky. Ricky had been a patient in the neo-natal intensive care unit where Meghan is a nurse. He was born with scads of health problems, and it because apparent very quickly that the only way Ricky was ever going to leave the hospital was if someone with medical knowledge and experience caring for premature infants took him home. Basically, he needed a neo-natal intensive care nurse to become his foster mom.

So last March, Meghan took the foster parenting classes and became certified to be a foster parent, specifically so she could take care of Ricky. When he was born, he was only 3 pounds, 9 ounces and 18 inches long. He's been struggling to gain and maintain his weight since his birth. Tomorrow Ricky turns one. In the one year he's been alive, he's spent more time in hospitals receiving treatments and undergoing various surgeries than many people do during their entire lives. At this point the doctors are running out of options, and Ricky may have to have a liver transplant in Stanford if his situation doesn't improve rapidly and soon.

Ricky and Meghan need your prayers. Pray that God will work a miracle in Ricky's life. Pray that his health will improve and that he'll be able to go off his feeding tube. Pray that he'll put on weight and keep it on. Pray that Meghan will have the wisdom to care for Ricky and make the right decisions about his medical treatments. Pray that she'll have the strength to continue on, no matter what the situation.

Meghan recently set up a website for Ricky so that the people who know them can stay updated on Ricky's progress. You can get to the site by clicking here. If nothing else, please keep Meghan and Ricky in your prayers.