Chase’s 7th Birthday

Thanks to all the Prayer Warriors who sent birthday wishes to Chase on his 7th Birthday this past week. We had a cake for him and Barbara blew out the candles after making a special wish (of course, as always, her wish is for Chase to be completely healed). It was a special moment for our family, although painful as ever to see our little champion remain unresponsive. Carol had a special treehouse / fort built for Chase right outside the window that his bedroom overlooks. Hopefully, this is giving him even more incentive to stick it out and continue on the road to recovery.

After a couple of months of amazing stability in Chase’s bloodwork, this past week his hemoglobin level dropped significantly. Fortunately, we were able to quickly diagnose the issue this time (a blood infection) before it progressed to critical levels. We’re administering IV antibiotics which will hopefully enable everything to get back to normal in another week or so.

What a difference a year makes – on Chase’s birthday last year, we fulfilled his wish and had a family campout in the backyard. Although Chase had developed some weakness in his right limbs, he was getting around, communicating with us, eating, drinking, etc. How we long for those days again – we could even tolerate a long, slow recovery as long as we had ongoing indications of improvements in his condition. Without this kind of feedback, it is becoming incredibly tiring and challenging for our faith to continue enduring this journey.

We’re praying that the Holy Spirit would descend upon us this weekend during the feast of Pentecost. We really need the gifts of His guidance, discernment, wisdom and comfort at this time. We truly appreciate all the ongoing prayers and support!

God Bless!!

John & Carol Sammut
Chase & Barbara Ann

A Difficult Mother’s Day

Well, we did our best to make Mother’s Day special for Carol - Barbara was particularly sweet with the little crafts that she worked hard on and took a lot of pride in. Despite the beautiful weather and loving gestures, this was probably the most difficult holiday to celebrate to date (certainly for Carol) since Chase’s diagnosis. It’s just getting extremely hard to enjoy anything on the home front while faced with Chase’s condition. Although he remains pretty stable and this has been a blessing in terms of reduced stress, it’s still extremely wearing physically, mentally and emotionally to see him unresponsive.

We’re doing our best to keep the faith and believe that God has a plan of victory for us – whether we can recognize it at this point or not. Nevertheless, it’s incredibly challenging at the moment. We need divine intervention and guidance to continue our journey through this challenge. Chase’s seventh birthday is coming up on May 23rd – we could really use something to celebrate in terms of clear progress with his recovery or a strong indication of God’s will for our family.

We truly appreciate all the ongoing prayers and support.

God Bless!!

John & Carol Sammut
Chase & Barbara Ann