As many of you know I help support a group called Mission:Change, who is currently ministering to a little boy named Easton Blanchard and his family.  To read more about Easton, go here.

Below you will see the latest update I received from the Blanchard family.  Please read and then pray for this amazing little boy and his family:

Today, well yesterday, has been a very hard and trying time for Easton and us all. As most of you know, Easton started going through rejection about a week ago and they said that things were starting to look much better. Easton was feeling and looking better. Last night about 5:15 PM they took him back in to surgery because he was having some draining from his belly. They got in and saw that the small bowel was very sick. So sick that they had to remove the entire transplanted small bowel. They say that the next 2 weeks will be very critical for him. He is septic.

This is the strongest little boy I know. He fights with everything he has everything time. I it so hard to know that he has wanted this for over a year now and he can’t have it. The only thing he has from it is the mark where they cut him, pain from after and the memories he doesn’t want to keep.

Time and time again I ask myself what am I going to tell him, How is he going to feel when he finds out and what is he going to say?  There has been many tears cried and wiped. I am sure there will be more to come. Right now he is stable and is holding his own. 

Please visit his caring bridge site at www. caringbridge. org/visit/eastonblanchard.  If you look in his journal at some of the other things that have been posted, you will see and address. That is the address for Easton at the hospital. Please take a little time and send him a card or just a note to say that you are behind him and thinking and praying for him. It really means the world to him to get mail and hang it in his room.
I’ll try to update again later. Thanks for the support, thoughts and prayers.

Love,
Brian & Heather Blanchard

I know that most of you don’t know Easton or his family, but it would mean a lot if you would send him a card or at least visit his Caring Bridge site and leave a note there.  If you would like to make a contribution, visit Mission:Change and buy something, and to help tell Easton’s story you can download the song, “Pittsburgh” from my website or from The Writer’s Closet.

Thanks everyone!  Now pray, pray, pray!