Friday, March 6, 2009

Isaiah prayers again

Please be praying once again for the Baier family and their son Isaiah. He is in the hospital again with his 3rd bout of meningitis. They caught it real fast since they are now pros at spotting it. This confirms for them and the doctor that their son is among one of the rare people that somehow has a hole in his brain that is causing the repeated meningitis. This requires locating the hole and brain surgery, which sounds horrible, but would be better than fighting meningitis repeatedly. The doctors also think something else may be wrong, so once Isaiah is strong enough to be released, they are going to travel to another city where there is a CAT scan that will not damage or draw interference with his cochlear implant in order to try to locate the hole and also see if something else is causing his many sicknesses. On top of the meningitis, he has gotten pneumonia and had a deadly reaction to an antibiotic. He was only off antibiotics 2 days when he started showing symptoms of meningitis again. The parents are taking it all in stride, but they are very tired. I can't imagine having to fight this off time and time again. Pray that the CEO will bring healing and direction, either miraculous or at the hand of the doctors, or both.