PRAYER FOR LYDIA
 
 
 April 5th - 7PM - An 18th month old little girl - 
 Lydia Fayette, accidently pulled on the cord of a 
 Rice Cooker and the whole Rice pot full of hot 
 boiling water and rice fell onto her whole face. 
  
  She is in a hospital in New Orleans and as of 8:00am 
 Thursday April 6th, she now has contracted pnuemonia 
 and they have put a breathing tube done her 
 throat.
  
  Please pass this request onto your prayer warrior 
 friends as she needs immediate prayer!  I will give 
 you an update when I receive more information. 
 
 
 UPDATE 4-10
 
 
 Update to: Debbie in New Orleans - Stemode@aol.com
 Please email Debbie if you want to still encourage the 
 Family of Lydia as she will forward them to the Family.  
 You will see in the last paragraph how they have helped 
 her through this.
 
 Debbie,
    It is Sunday - 4- 9- 00  -  9:45PM - I have a little
 information regarding 18 month old Lydia that was burned 
 after pulling the cord of the rice cooker and the boiling 
 water with boiling rice falling all over her head, face 
 and chest.  It has been 4 full days now.  I was with the 
 family at the hospital today at about 3pm.  Lydia is 
 still in a very critical stage and is fighting for her 
 life - she still has pneumonia - Lydia is basically the 
 same.  She has a lot of tubes & machines attached to her 
 right now, monitoring her, medicating her and feeding her.  
 She hasn't worsened.  Lydia's grandfather told me that 
 the doctors said the neck and upper chest area may be 
 the only places at this time that may or may not warrant 
 graphing.   By the seventh day the doctors may be able 
 to determine more about her skin.  (Seven, my number!)
 
    The mom, Laura,  looked very cradled by the love 
 and support of her family, today.   I'm sure the weekdays 
 will seem longer when a lot of them are back at work and 
 she's facing it with less of them to support her.   On 
 Friday the mom told me " the doctors won't let me hold 
 her".   I can't even imagine not being able to hold or 
 touch my child.  I can't begin to see myself in her 
 position seeing her child that way in that PICU room.  
 
    The prayers from the internet people are so wonderful.  
 The people's prayers address not only Lydia but the 
 parents and the whole family - THEY NEED IT!
 
    Laura came into the waiting room and sat next to me, 
 today; she'd just come from Lydia's room and she seemed
 drained.  She told me, "Thank you for the prayers; Oh I 
 see you have more".    She had a room full of family and 
 friends, of which some weren't even there when she'd left 
 the room and she started to read, whimpered a little, 
 soaked them up, was unaware of the talk and carrying on 
 around her.  She was engulfed in these prayers.  I saw 
 with my own eyes that she was more anxious than I to read 
 them; she couldn't read them fast enough.  She may have 
 only had a couple left to read, this being the second 
 batch I gave her, when she appeared to decide she should 
 maybe visit or acknowledge the people around her.  She 
 turned to me, putting the prayers beside her, and said 
 she'd finish them later. 
 
    Laura told me, "Tell all of them Thank you!".   
 Laura's sister had told me that the prayers really 
 seemed to help Laura.
 
 UPDATE: TUESDAY 4-18
 
 She is being taken off the ventilator today and see 
 what will happen - her burns are getting better so much 
 so they are now only going ot have to graft  the right 
 front chest area.  It has been 10 days and she is still 
 heavily  sedated but is doing much better - NO PNEUMONIA!
  - still a ways to go but she IS definitely out of the 
 woods now - they took the catheter out now and she is back 
 in diapers.  She still has not spoken in 10 days and the 
 parents are so worn out but.... GOD - the parents are so
 appreciative of the prayers  and have never experienced 
 "body ministry" like this.  Keep praying - God is 
 working a miracle for her.
 
 UPDATE: WEDNESDAY, 5-17
 
 Lydia is at home and is walking again with help - she 
 also has NOT had to have ANY skin graphs - Praise God!!!!!  
 She is doing better than they thought  at this stage - 
 so the parents are grateful for the prayers but they 
 do need to know the Lord in a personal way - we were 
 all hoping and praying they  would come to know JESUS 
 through this but......  Thanks for praying and we 
 have to believe that prayers will not return void.
 
 
 UPDATE: SATURDAY, 7-1
 
 PRAISE THE LORD!
 She is doing very well.  She had to have one section 
 of her neck grafted, she learned how to walk again 
 and talk again rather quickly after being taken 
 off the  medications.  Seems to  have no after 
 effects of this trauma.  Praise God and God Bless 
 You for your prayers.
 
 UPDATE: SUNDAY 8-13
 
 From: Heartseeker
 
 Re: Lydia
 
 I wrote in to check on Lydia.  This is the response
 I received.  Praise the Lord!!! 
 
 She is totally well -  thanks for all your prayers