Hannah and Manuel Update:
This is the latest update from Hannah in Peru:
It is hard to write an update about Manuel because the constant flow of information feels like drinking from a firehose. Information from the morning can be outdated by the afternoon.
So, here is what we know:
– More than fifteen tests and seven doctors have confirmed that Manuel did suffer a heart attack. – He shouldn’t be alive. – The doctors are speechless about that. – He has been kept in the hospital for monitoring and rightfully so. – There is heart damage and concern about blood clots. – The day before his discharge, his heart started having pain like he experienced before the heart attack, so he’s still under observation and monitoring. – He will need to go to Lima for more testing as hospitals in Iquitos are not equipped to do those tests.
What we don’t know: – Exactly what is wrong and what treatment will be. – When he will go to Lima and with who. – If treatment will be easy or open heart surgery (so many predictions have been thrown at us this week, it’s overwhelming!) – If his insurance will cover costs there or if we will be burdened with the bulk of the medical bills. We are told treatment there will require private specialists, not government insured care. – When our baby will come! Due date is January 25th. A c-section is scheduled for January 30th. – If Manuel could even be there for the birth between being discharged and having to go to Lima. -If Daniel, the new baby, and I will be able to go with him to Lima or if we’d have to wait until later.
People have asked how I am doing, and this is my attempt at answering that:
The unknowns of Manuel’s medical state and condition have put me on an emotional roller coaster. In a space I can’t even process is the weight of the unknown, including pending medical expenses in Lima. I don’t even know how to process what it all means.
As for having a baby any day now, I have been putting off packing my hospital bag because I don’t want to go into labor without my husband with me. I desperately want to share the joy of our son’s birth together. We have tried for 5 years to get pregnant and his birth is a miraculous answer to many, many prayers (ours and others). God’s timing is perfect and we are blessed, but it feels incomplete to welcome baby Timothy into the world without my husband with me.
Thankfully, Daniel is holding up with his health. He had been battling ongoing sickness and was scheduled to have his tonsils removed yesterday. I cancelled that a few days ago and threw it to some time in February.
I am grateful for the people God has surrounded us with to take care of Manuel, myself and our son, Daniel. We are not alone! My mom and sister are staying with me, and people check in on us all the time. It’s re-assuring to not be alone.
We are grateful for the overwhelming prayer support, concern for our finances, and support at this time.
There are still so many unknowns and I have be forced to slow down and stop planning weeks in advance. We can only take this one step at a time.
It looks like he will be released from the hospital in Iquitos Monday. Hopefully, the baby will be born during that time and then he needs to fly to Lima where there are better doctors and hospitals. There have been big miracles and now some setbacks.
Thank you for continuing to pray for and support us. We need it.
Hannah Baxter De Garcia Sent from my iPhone
This is the latest update from Hannah in Peru:
It is hard to write an update about Manuel because the constant flow of information feels like drinking from a firehose. Information from the morning can be outdated by the afternoon.
So, here is what we know:
– More than fifteen tests and seven doctors have confirmed that Manuel did suffer a heart attack. – He shouldn’t be alive. – The doctors are speechless about that. – He has been kept in the hospital for monitoring and rightfully so. – There is heart damage and concern about blood clots. – The day before his discharge, his heart started having pain like he experienced before the heart attack, so he’s still under observation and monitoring. – He will need to go to Lima for more testing as hospitals in Iquitos are not equipped to do those tests.
What we don’t know: – Exactly what is wrong and what treatment will be. – When he will go to Lima and with who. – If treatment will be easy or open heart surgery (so many predictions have been thrown at us this week, it’s overwhelming!) – If his insurance will cover costs there or if we will be burdened with the bulk of the medical bills. We are told treatment there will require private specialists, not government insured care. – When our baby will come! Due date is January 25th. A c-section is scheduled for January 30th. – If Manuel could even be there for the birth between being discharged and having to go to Lima. -If Daniel, the new baby, and I will be able to go with him to Lima or if we’d have to wait until later.
People have asked how I am doing, and this is my attempt at answering that:
The unknowns of Manuel’s medical state and condition have put me on an emotional roller coaster. In a space I can’t even process is the weight of the unknown, including pending medical expenses in Lima. I don’t even know how to process what it all means.
As for having a baby any day now, I have been putting off packing my hospital bag because I don’t want to go into labor without my husband with me. I desperately want to share the joy of our son’s birth together. We have tried for 5 years to get pregnant and his birth is a miraculous answer to many, many prayers (ours and others). God’s timing is perfect and we are blessed, but it feels incomplete to welcome baby Timothy into the world without my husband with me.
Thankfully, Daniel is holding up with his health. He had been battling ongoing sickness and was scheduled to have his tonsils removed yesterday. I cancelled that a few days ago and threw it to some time in February.
I am grateful for the people God has surrounded us with to take care of Manuel, myself and our son, Daniel. We are not alone! My mom and sister are staying with me, and people check in on us all the time. It’s re-assuring to not be alone.
We are grateful for the overwhelming prayer support, concern for our finances, and support at this time.
There are still so many unknowns and I have be forced to slow down and stop planning weeks in advance. We can only take this one step at a time.
It looks like he will be released from the hospital in Iquitos Monday. Hopefully, the baby will be born during that time and then he needs to fly to Lima where there are better doctors and hospitals. There have been big miracles and now some setbacks.
Thank you for continuing to pray for and support us. We need it.
Hannah Baxter De Garcia Sent from my iPhone
