Please pray for my friend....

It's been the toughest week of her life.

My friend Emily, who is the new sedation nurse in our clinic and has become a very good friend of mine, is facing the hardest struggle that I can imagine.

She came in to work on Monday (20 weeks pregnant) and told me that she'd gained SIX pounds in one week and was feeling very swollen. We immediately took her back to a treatment room and checked her blood pressure: 162/102!!! We called her OB, who told her to get directly to the emergency room, where she was promptly admitted, then transferred to a larger hospital.

She had preeclampsia and her blood pressure was dangerously out of control and her labs looked very bad.


They had to induce labor 2 days ago to correct the preeclampsia, and the baby did not survive.


This is undoubtedly the most tragic time of her life, so please please please pray for her and her family at this time. She is doing much better, physically, but emotionally and spiritually she is understandably a wreck right now. There's not much I, as a friend, can say or do in this situation except sit with her, hold her hand, and let her talk, cry, and pray with her. I am so grateful that we caught the condition in time, otherwise Emily may have not survived, but I don't like to even think about that.

I ask that you all send up extra prayers for her this week that she can find peace.

I am reminded at this tragic time how very blessed I am to have such a wonderful family and healthy incredible children. I've been holding them very tightly the past few days, and giving them lots of extra love, as my heart breaks for my friend.

That's all. I can't say much else right now.