That evening is when the praying really took over. It turned out that Mrs. Phillippe a natonal pastor's wife also gave birth on Heidi's birthday. However due to some serious complications she had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy just hours after giving birth. She had to then return again to the operating room for a second surgery the next morning to help control bleeding from the previous surgery. She had 7 blood transfussions over a span of less then 36 hours.
Over the course of the next week, she was up and down. We thought on Monday that she might be getting better. When Adie and I went up to the hospital we saw Heidi there visiting so we went in and Mrs. Phillippe was talking and seemed good other then it sounded like she had a cold coming on and her legs were swollen. Her son was good and seemed to be nursing just fine.
However, on Tuesday she took a turn for the worst and slipped into a comma. Randy, a missionary pilot with a plane and his wife an RN made a decision to offer flying Mrs. Phillippe from the hospital in Kara to an ABWE missionary hospital down south which is staffed by volunteer US doctors. Mr. Phillippe pondered the decision and after asking the local doctors they began preparing her for transport and gave her an additional 2 pints of blood bringing her total to 9. However, the next morning, Wednesday, the local doctors strongly advised against moving her and it seemed like she was might never leave. She was doing a bit better, awake and talking again but that might have had something to do with the blood. She had been very animic. Then Wednesday night came and she started slipping towards a comma again. She rambled and talked with out making and sense. The decision was finally made late Wednesday night that despite what the local recommendations were, that Phillippe would pull his wife out of the hospital and accompanied by Mrs. Alderman (an RN) and piloted by Randy, they would all head down for the ABWE hospital on Thursday morning.
This morning (Thursday), I got up about 4 am and headed up to Sarakawa where Randy's plane was prept and ready to receive Mrs. Phillippe. Around 5 am, Jon showed up with Phillippe, his wife and their son. We loaded them into the plane and around 5:30 am (local time) they took off on their 90 minute flight for the missionary hospital.
Eventhough the babe is in good health, Mrs. Phillippe is in critical condition. This flight cut a drive of 6 plus hours down to a 90 minutes. However, she isn't out of the woods yet. Please pray that the doctors down south will have the wisdom to diagnose her and that God will grant healing to here body so that she might be returned unto her family again. She is a precious and godly woman and it would be wonderful to see her with her family and church once more.
