Hundreds of prayers are thanking God after a seven-week-old child who underwent a coronary heart transplant continues to indicate indicators of enchancment.
Based on CBN Information, Mark E. Joubert posted updates on his son August Elliott Joubert, higher referred to as Gus on social media, final week to chronicle the kid's journey by way of surgical procedure.
“My son is at the moment present process surgical procedure. He got here in round 1:00 p.m. The previous coronary heart is out and the brand new coronary heart goes in. We solely spent 11 days on the transplant checklist. Thank God for the household that determined to donate. It was an extended day. We’ll in all probability not see him till 8 p.m.,” Joubert he wrote on X the sixteenth of January.
My son is at the moment present process surgical procedure. He got here in round 1:00 p.m. The previous coronary heart is out, the brand new coronary heart goes in. We solely spent 11 days on the transplant checklist. Thank God for the household that determined to donate. It was an extended day. We’ll in all probability not see him till 8 p.m.
The Lord is our refuge. pic.twitter.com/V5OHYAfQpE
— Mark E. Joubert (@mark_joubert) January 16, 2024
“The Lord is our refuge.”
Nonetheless, regardless of the profitable coronary heart transplant, Joubert posted an replace asking for prayers as Gus' coronary heart was having bother beating.
“We now have dangerous information. After a profitable transplant, our son's donor coronary heart stopped beating. He’ll go on ECMO (coronary heart bypass machine) for just a few days in hopes that it’s going to begin beating. In any other case he’ll die. Please pray for us all. Could the Lord be glorified.” Joubert he wrote.
We now have dangerous information. After a profitable transplant, our son's donor coronary heart stopped beating. He’ll go on ECMO (coronary heart bypass machine) for just a few days in hopes that it’s going to begin beating. In any other case he’ll die. Please pray for us all. Could the Lord be glorified. pic.twitter.com/MGMyTY2oiQ
— Mark E. Joubert (@mark_joubert) January 17, 2024
Two days later, he wrote that his son's coronary heart had began beating once more and thanked those that saved him in prayer.
“It's weak and incomplete, nevertheless it's a strike! It lasted and grew all day at present. Please maintain praying for Gus!” he he wrote is John 18.
Within the newest replace, Jourbert famous that Gus skilled problems after being taken off EMCO, however that was as a result of his coronary heart was “re-energizing.” Nonetheless, the kid was put again on EMCO as his blood strain “continued to plummet”.
“He stabilized final night time for some unknown purpose. We loved just a few hours of reduction, however at present at three o'clock within the morning, his situation worsened once more,” he mentioned he tweeted Wednesday morning. “This time it introduced him to the brink of loss of life and we needed to put him again on ECMO. Thankfully, our staff acted shortly and he was efficiently introduced again on ECMO. He’s largely secure now, though he’s struggling to discover a good steadiness together with his fluids. What triggered this cussed blood strain drawback stays unsure.”
He additionally famous that the emergency needed to cope with a clot that had shaped throughout an ECMO check.
“Even when it didn't enter Gus as a complete, it may have despatched 'microclots' into his physique. From the X-rays, it seems like his proper lung carried it. Our staff believes the harm to his proper lung led to an inflammatory response that affected how his vascular system is retaining fluids and thus how his physique maintains good strain. The one possibility he had this morning was to return on ECMO within the hopes that it might give him the soundness his lungs want for just a few extra days to heal. Within the meantime they are going to administer the remedy , to take away inflammatory markers from his blood.”
As well as, Joubert identified that Gus's different organs, such because the liver, kidneys and mind, “didn’t undergo important harm.”
“So right here we sit: take just a few extra days on ECMO to permit the lungs to get well and scale back the irritation whereas sustaining good strain, monitoring him neurologically, and defending his different organs,” he added. “Pray with us that God will give knowledge to our medical doctors. Pray for Gus's lungs to get well; that this time on ECMO can be with out problems and provides him the time he must free himself and at last take off.”
Photo courtesy of Twitter/@mark_joubert/
Milton Quintanilla is a contract author and content material creator. He’s a contributor to Christian Headlines and host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and biblical fact. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
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