After a month plus of near death experience and hospital stays, Colette is back in the states. On Feb 8, we got a call that Colette was very sick. What followed was a scary time where Colette's temperature rose drastically, she had many seizures, some that made Jenna think she had died, she went to a close by hospital where they thought she had cerebral malaria, then she was transferred by plane to Abijan down south where they tried to get her non-functioning kidneys to work. She was then transferred to Paris with the rest of her family where they gave a diagnosis of HUS a rare reaction to severe e-coli. She was in a precarious state of health and her story is amazingly detailed, but she was able to travel to Dayton where a wonderful Nephrologist took on her case.
We are so thankful to see her sweet face and to spend time with her. Holding her for the first time was such an emotional experience after spending hours and hours praying that God would restore her health.
She is an amazing answer to prayer. Micah would pray, "Thank you for my God (how he starts every prayer) that you heal Colette." I love that his pray was said in the positive and I used it as an example in how I pray. Why not pray as if He has already done it!
Aria needed lots of prayer as well as she watched the ups and downs of her sister's health and her parents' reactions. So glad to have them close for a while.
