Urgent Prayer Request

I don’t know if anyone will read this tonight or in the morning before I get a chance to post again, but I had to post an extremely important prayer request.

Please, please, please say a prayer for our nephew, Eli, and his family. We don’t know a whole lot at this point, but he has been in the hospital since Friday. The little guy is a month old today.

What we know: His umbilical stump fell off a couple of weeks ago, but on Friday began bleeding uncontrollably. The pediatrician said it was a ruptured cyst that had gotten infected (or something like that), and sent them to the hospital. Since then, they have taken blood samples and cultures and all sorts of lab work, and we now know that it is a MRSA staph infection. There are apparently two types of this kind of infection: one of which is treated by antibiotics, the other of which would involve a more complicated procedure and a transfer to the nearby children’s hospital. We won’t know which it is until sometime tomorrow, at the earliest.

Please pray for him, his parents (Craig and Michelle), and his two older sisters (Jesse and Carlie). His parents are very concerned, tired, and stretched pretty thin while trying to take care of the girls and spend as much time as possible at the hospital. I’m not sure, either, how much the girls understand (they’re 4 and 3). Also please pray for Scott’s parents, as they fill in gaps where needed and take care of their daughter’s family as best they can.

Thank you all for your prayers. I’ll update when I know more.