Father's personal request...

[Slither]

I would like to ask those of you who are faithful to remember us in your petitions as we face a serious illness with my 11yr old son James. Without going into too much detail, he has been pretty sick for the last three months. After almost a month of on and off sickness and a few trips to the pediatrician, he was diagnosed with subacute bacterial endocarditis and immediately went into the hospital. He ended up on six weeks of antibiotics, which tore his gut up pretty bad, had a bad reaction to one of the drugs, and ended up in the hospital again.

Now over seven weeks later, he was scheduled for open-heart surgery on Wednesday this week, as the right side of his heart is failing, but he was diagnosed with a pretty bad opportunistic intestinal bug today (because of the previous antibiotic therapy), which caused a delay in a much needed cardiac surgery.

From day one they haven't even been able to handle his case around here, so he's been over in New Orleans for treatment each time and for the surgery. Just got back home from seeing him today. His spirits are remarkably good considering the situation. He is a little trooper, keeping his head up as best he can while getting jabbed and stuck as much as he is.

He is in the red shirt on my left in this photo... http://www.uniquecobra.com/forums/sh...cticing+future

Please, I'd be eternally grateful if you'd say a little prayer for him and for us... Thanks!