Please Pray for baby Lenox

My good friend and co-worker, Senneca, gave birth to her son, Lenox, on Wednesday.  Lenox was born 1 day shy of 34 weeks, but despite only being 4 lbs, he got off to a good start.  However, in the middle of the night on Thursday, Lenox had to be rushed to CHKD for emergency surgery.  Senneca had a fair-share of her own health issues going on after birth, but she was able to be discharged early to go be with her little boy.  It turns out that Lenox had a condition that had nothing to do with his early arrival.  He had intestinal malrotation, which meant during his early development in the womb, his intestines had gotten tightly twisted around their blood supply and at some point had stopped getting blood/oxygen.  The longer they were cut off from oxygen, the more permanent damage that would occur, so I think it's already a miracle that he was born early and they discovered this. 

He is currently in the NICU at the Children's hospital and will have surgery again tomorrow morning.  During the first surgery, the surgeon untwisted things, but couldn't yet tell how much of the intestines would pink back up to life, and how much could have irreversible damage and need to be removed.  Please pray with us that when they go back in on Sunday, they will find that there is little or no dead intestines needing to be removed.  Also, please pray that this little guy will remain stable and healthy both before and after surgery.  He's already had to go through so much for such a tiny little boy, and there's a good chance that he'll have more challenges ahead. 

Senneca and her family are believers and are trusting God no matter what.  They also have a 3 1/2 year old little boy Lyric who has to have lung surgery at the end of this year.  They have a lot on their plate to say the least, but God is good and is getting them through.  Please pray for them...especially for little Lenox as he goes into surgery again tomorrow morning.