Baby Sila, a one-month-old girl with a truncus diagnosis, reached Sheba Hospital at around 2PM. She was hustled out of her ambulance and into her hospital room, and for the next hours she was surrounded by doctors and nurses as test after test after test was performed on her tiny frame.
Sila was diagnosed in the womb with her condition, but her health didn’t deteriorate until after her first couple weeks. We were put in touch with her family shortly after her first trip to a hospital, when she was about twenty days old. It took around ten days to work out the details of her transfer; but particularly for children with this condition, time is of the essence. As her doctor performed her first echo at Sheba, he lamented to me that she couldn’t have gotten there earlier: “each day makes a difference.”
Sila’s mother, despite her evident fears for the safety of her child, conducted herself with quiet dignity and determination, trusting what we had to say and waiting patiently as Sila was examined. Afterwards, she went to stand by her daughter’s side. Her husband, delayed due to crossing the border in non-emergency transportation, joined them later, though I haven’t met him yet.
Sila will have a difficult road ahead with her. In the coming days she’ll have a CT scan performed, which, God willing, will pave the way for surgery next week. Please pray for her! She’s so new to the earth and to life; we want her to be healed and to taste the fullness of what God has prepared for her.
Please pray for this precious girl and her family, that God will be with them and that his Spirit will comfort them even as he brings healing to Sila.