Sometimes because Madelynn is so far past her surgery,
I consider stepping back from the support group for heart families I am part
of. Madelynn had one of the less complex heart conditions. With today’s
technology and advances most children with her CHD are repaired without open
heart surgery. Granted Madelynn had a twist to her CHD and would have still had
to have open heart surgery.
The last few weeks I have really been wondering if this
is the path I should stay on or do I need to find a new dirt road to explore. When
I am truly unsure I will lie in bed and pray about it. I am one of these people
who need God to almost smack me in the head and say, “UM……Hello Chelsea…..is
this answer PLAIN and OBVIOUS enough for you?”
When I started posting for CHD Week Awareness I thought
of things I would write about for each day. Made a few notes about each of
these topics and set it aside until it was time to post. I work better this way
and sometimes by waiting find a better answer than writing it all in advance.
Today several things rang true for me about this process.
For starters I am going to continue to help support
families in anyway God presents it to me and sometimes it is in the oddest
forms. My “smack on the head” came when a family in Canada found my blog. They
are concerned about a family member who might have an undiagnosed CHD. I shared
with them about the pulse ox test, a few things we learned after Madelynn’s
diagnosis (we should have known before) and told them I would pray for the best
outcome.
The best outcome would be for there to be NO CHD.
However, it does not sound like that is the case. So I went to work sharing
with this family everything I knew and learned that might help them ask better
questions and hopefully find the right answers, hopefully without overwhelming
them. When I finished typing my response I thought, “Yes God, I asked you to
show me the answer and SMACK!! I get it LOUD and CLEAR.”
You just never know who will cross your path I will
always be ready to share. Please pray for this baby girl that her family finds
the answers they are looking for and they do it soon.
TTFN~
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