Remember the Relient K song on their Christmas album, “I Hate Christmas Parties”? My youngest, Joe, and his wife, Trisha, actually lost their firstborn child on Christmas day. I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember how many years ago it was, but I believe it’s been 8 years this Christmas. They had Nora, thank God, 6 years ago, and she’s such an amazing kid that their hearts were nearly healed; well, not healed maybe, but happy. Now Trisha is pregnant a third time and they just found out at their ultrasound yesterday that she’s carrying twins. Conjoined twins. Girls. They are sharing one heart. My son called us, sobbing, broken and confused. I went into shock. How could this be?! God, this isn’t fair. Haven’t they suffered enough already? How are we supposed to deal with this news?!
Google says that conjoined twins that share a heart are rare. They are usually stillborn or die shortly after birth. Their heart is usually, what’s the word?!!, Inadequate? Malformed? I can’t remember, but it wasn’t a good word to describe a heart.
First Billy’s MDS, now this terrible blow. God, how can we keep going?
I’m praying that God will help them. They’re waiting for a call from a special hospital in Cincinnati that works with conjoined twins.
Lord, help us
A Little Bit of Everything, With Love 