Part V

Dear All-

We are waiting to figure out when they want to take him to the OR next, either later today or tomorrow. Be praying because the doctors have said that there is a very real possibility that we will be right back to where we were last Tuesday. I can't tell you enough how much the prayers are working, please do not stop! Continue to place him on prayer lists and with prayer teams whenever you can. Petition God earnestly for his life and his health, Avery can and will do so many wonderful things for the Kingdom, he has already started to.
Some have asked what they can do, and here's what we've come up with. Avery at a mininmal guestimation has had 10-12 transfusions of blood and 10 transfusions of platelets since Tuesday. Please donate blood but more importantly please donate platelets. The hospital and his nurses have told me that there is a HUGE need for platelets and seeing as Avery has and will need more, there is no bigger gift that you could give right now than that. Because Avery's main issue this time was with clotting factors after surgery, your donation could potentially of platelets could potentially save his life. Avery is B+ so especially if you have B+ blood and are willing to do a platelet donation, please call the hospital at 919-966-2370.

Even if you're not close to UNC Hospitals, please do go donate blood and platelets if your able to where ever you're able to and let us know. I will put it up at his bedside and let our team know. Our donors have literally saved Avery's life.

We will keep you posted on his progress. I haven't left the hospital since Tuesday and have no intensions of leaving until he is stable and off the oscilator/vent with his eyes open.

In the meantime I posted a new verse at his bedside, and it's brought me great comfort getting ready for the OR again. It's
Psalm 91:9

9 If you make the Most High your dwelling...
10 then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone....
14 "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him....

What strength you see in Jared, myself and AMAZING Avery is not our own. It is a reflection of a loving, merciful and wonderous God. We continue to be blessed to carry His banner in this testimony.
Love to all
Meg, Jared and AMAZING Avery