[waiting4babies]

Hi everyone, I need everyone's prayers.

We have been home with our two children, our beautiful 2 year old daughter and our beautiful 4 year old boy, for six weeks now.

Our 2 year old daughter has had an upper respiratory infection since we returned. She has been to the doctor's office every week since we arrived home and has been on antibiotics and asthma medications because the doctor thought she might have asthma since she was wheezing.

Since the orphanage director told me that she has had bronchitis five times this year, the doctor decided to do a chest X-ray. Yesterday, during the follow-up visit, the doctor gave us the results of the X-ray and right now they do not sound good.

Apparently, the X-ray shows an enlarged heart, which is called cardiomegaly. In addition, the doctor said that her bronchioles are scarred and that the congestion has possibly caused lung damage and that as a result her heart is working on overtime, which the doctor stated will lead to heart failure. The pediatrician has decided to put her on another round of antibiotics to see if she can get rid of the congestion she has and in a week if the congestion still persists, he will refer our daughter to a cardiologist.

I am really scared and have cried over and over. We do not know what to do. We feel helpless. Other than getting her the care she needs, we do not know how to deal with the sadness this is causing. The only thing we can focus on right now is that the pediatrician did say that her heart sounds normal right now. He also said that it is possible that since she has viral pneumonia that the scarring found on the X-rays are just as a result of the pneuomonia and nothing more; however, he said, the only way to tell if in fact, she does not have anything more serious is to keep her on the antibiotics for another 10 days to see if the infection goes away. He also said that the enlarged heart could be temporary as a result of the breathing problems, but he will not know for sure until her next visit.

Please pray that all she has is just temporary bronchiole scarring and that she will be okay. She is a feisty little girl, weighing only 20 pounds. She does not appear ill at all other than the wheezing, so we really do not know how ill she really is because she is always so happy.

I thank God everyday for granting me the ability to bring her home and for granting me the ability to be her mommy. Please pray for our daughter that she will be okay. Thank you.