Prayers for Jaouad

Last week was another challenging week for our family. My brother-in-law, Jaouad, was rudely greeted by severe chest pains Wednesday evening while hanging out with his buddies after work. Gratefully, one of his friends avoided listening to him say he would just go home to sleep it off & called 911 to rush him to the hospital. Cassie went to the rescue to go watch the kids & Rose drove Tina to the hospital. Thankfully, Rose was there at the hospital with Tina when she got the awful news that Jaouad had actually had a heart attach!!! The surgery that was supposed to last 15-20 minutes ended up taking over an hour. Jaouad spent the entire next day in ICU trying to recover & get his blood pressure back up. Many prayers from our family helped move the process along to get him home. He is now home with his amazing wife, my sister, Tina who is not only taking care of Jaouad but also doing her usual job of caring for their 3 kids. If you wouldn't mind keeping their family in your prayers it would be greatly appreciated. Mainly for the obvious, Jaouad's health. But a close second; financially this is going to be very difficult with the hospital bills, medication, & the fact that Jaouad will have to stay home to recover for quite a while they will have no income between the two of them for their family of 5. We are so blessed that once again God has answered the prayers of our family and brought Jaouad safely home.

The boys stayed the night on Thursday while Tina was still at the hospital. On Friday we started the morning off with some story time & when that wore off all the kids made a sweet card for Jaouad to take to him on their visit to the hospital.

***A little side note: This was the first time Isabella has written her entire name by herself. (A very proud moment for a mommy.) Of course the "b" is a little off... looks more like an "o" & "l", but for the most part I think she did pretty good. Jaouad, you should feel special. She did it for you.:)