Our family has been completely blown away by the blessings that the Lord has poured out upon us over the past couple of weeks. As you know, two weeks ago today my (Jill's) mom had a massive heart attack that nearly took her life. God saw her through it and she was in the exact right spot at the exact right time. Praise God. She's doing well and she's "trying" to rest and recover but if any of you know my mom you know how hard it is for her to stay put! Because of the multiple health issues with our family we felt that the Lord was leading us to come home for a little family time to check on everyone. Little did we know HIS plans were so much more than that!
Less than 24 hours after our long two day flight back to the States we received an email from Dr. Amanda Gosman from ConnectMed. Dr. Gosman is J's dr. (that we've only met over skype) who is bringing a team to Malawi in February to do cleft lip/cleft palate repairs on the children of Malawi. These are some of the best surgeons in our country and it's such an honor for them to be coming to our country and helping to change the lives of the children who need help in Malawi. Anyway, Dr. Gosman found out that we were in the States and emailed us asking if we were interested in having J's surgery while we were home. We immediately called her back and explained that our missionary health insurance wouldn't cover J here in the States. She assured us that this was a gift from a program called Fresh Start that seeks to help children with physical disabilities and birth defects. If we were going to do this we'd need to have J in San Diego by the next Wednesday (4 days away). Wow! Can you see our Lord at work?? Dr. Gosman and her team only have these free surgery weekends 6 times a year. And the Lord saw fit that our family would just "happen" to be in the States the very week of the surgery weekend.
We sent out an urgent prayer letter to family and within 2 minutes one of my amazing childhood friends emailed back and said that she and her husband would take care of our airline tickets to San Diego! Are you seeing how the Lord uses HIS body to accomplish HIS purposes??? We were speechless. Everything was happening so fast. So we took my mother and our other three children to Montgomery so that they could be with Jeremy's parents for rest and recovery of mom. Then the next day Jeremy, J, and I jumped on a plane for San Diego. We were picked up at the airport by Fresh Start and went directly to get J's blood drawn. We were then taken to the Ronald McDonald house at Rady Children's Hospital. What a beautiful blessing!
Thursday was a day filled with Dr's appointments and waiting in Dr.'s waiting rooms. We were able to finally meet Dr. Gosman face to face and the amazing Julie Breuninger (who has facilitated this entire endeavor). I started crying as I finally met these amazing ladies who have been such a part of our life since J was 3 weeks old. They've watched him and tracked his progress every step of the way. They told us that they were in our lives for many years to come and for that we're so thankful!!!! They wanted us to see an ENT to see if J would need tubes as well during his surgery. After meeting with Dr. Madgit it was decided that yes, J would have tubes inserted on Saturday as part of his cleft palate repair. Praise God for his provisions in this as well!!!
J is doing very well and he's just the happiest baby we've ever seen! We took him to Coronado Island to the beach today and then out for some yummy Mexican (well, Mommy and Daddy enjoyed the Mexican)! At 5:45am Pacific we will walk across the street to the surgery center at Rady's and J's surgery will be at 7:30am. He will stay overnight for observation and then we will have a few days of recovery before we return to Montgomery hopefully on Wednesday. Please pray for J's surgery, for the Dr's and nurses, for J's strength and health, and for Jeremy and I as we try to help him to remain comfortable in the next few days to come. But most of all please help us to give all of the praise and glory to our Heavenly Father who has worked this puzzle and plan out in ways that we could never fathom! We pray that everyone who hears this story sees that ONLY GOD could have done this miracle! Only God knew that when Mom had her life threatening heart attack that we would jump on a plane and that would enable our son to have the surgery that he needs in one of the best children's medical centers in the US! GOD is good!!!!
We will keep you posted as we learn more and I will email when J is out of the hospital. Thank you in advance for your prayers and praise to our Lord! It is through HIM that all things are done! Praise HIM for His mercies, grace, and blessings!
In humble gratitude and amazement,
The Kyser Family
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