Janet is a girl that I met at my church about 5 years ago Janet’s project life is to try and save her life. This is what she looked when I first met her.
And this is what she looks like today, well Friday when my mom and I gave her the pray shawl. No there is nothing wrong with the picture she is really that yellow.
Janet has been battling Crohn’s disease since she was in high school. Due to some complications from a 2007 surgery, she has been in and out of the hospital. During that time she was placed on a ventilator four times and has only two feet of intestines left. Because her stomach can’t absorb nutrition, she is now on a 24-hour feeding tube.
Last summer she made a decision to call hospice. At 32 years old she had finally made peace with the fact that she was dying. After a lot of pray and before giving up completely, Janet tried one last option, which would be a small intestine transplant. It was defiantly a long shot, but after lengthy research she found a hospital that would give her an evaluation. That hospital is Clarion Hospital in Indianapolis, IN.
She arrived in Indianapolis on Jan. 27. The next day, Dr. Rodrigo Vianna, a transplant surgeon, gave her startling news. He could possibly cure her Crohn’s disease by doing a rare transplant surgery where she would receive five new organs: a new liver, stomach, pancreas and large and small intestine. That news left Janet speechless.
She officially will be placed on the transplant waiting list March 1.
That means she must live within four hours of the hospital so she is close by when her organs become available.
But there’s just one hitch, she needs a place to stay. She doesn’t have much money and her husband has had to take a lot of time off work so to say that they are struggling is an understatement. Her medical insurance will covers her medical expenses.
Now Janet is doing something she hasn’t done for years. She’s starting to daydream about her future - about what it would be like to take a walk, about living again, about getting to know her husband.
Oh I forgot to mention her husband. They were married in July of 2007 and she started have all of this medical drama in September of 2007. I was at their wedding and when they said their vows I never thought “for better or worse, in sickness and in health” was going to going to be their entire marriage.
Janet needs to move, without her husband, to the Indianapolis area by March 1 to wait for the call that they have her new organs. She needs a place to stay before her transplant and for almost a year afterwards.
I’m asking you to pray for how God can use you bring about a miracle. Janet is already beat the odds, numerous times.
If you want to send prayers I will get them to her.
Here is a link to the
newspaper article
