About Eddie's Fund

In 2006, our 10-year-old son had a bone marrow transplant. While recovering in isolation at home, he determined to do something to help a bone marrow transplant family we had met while in the hospital. Something to help his new friend, Eddie. We started Eddie's Fund that week, and seven years later, as Eddie continues his post-transplant recovery and waits for a double lung transplant, our family of five continues to raise funds for Eddie and his family. 100% of all donations to the Fund are paid directly to bill companies to help Eddie's family financially manage the intensity of Eddie's recovery. On behalf of Eddie and his family, we thank you for offering hope and help and joining with us to support our buddy, Eddie.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Eddie back in the ICU

Dear Friends,

I talked with Kori last night and again this morning; Eddie is not well. There is quite a list of things that are causing difficulty for Eddie, and these things sent him to the ICU again a couple days ago. He's still there today.

For now, delivering meals to them is going to be on hold until their life allows them to return home.

Please continue to pray for Eddie and for Kori. This has been an exhausting week for them both, and also very scary. Yesterday Kori and I talked about why good folks--and innocent children--suffer. We wondered aloud how we can bear up under so much pain. There are not answers to these things. But I was reminded of this past week's Feast of the Holy Innocents (a day within the Christian Church calendar to recall the slaughter of children by Herod at the time of Jesus' birth), and somehow comforted to know that evil, pain, and suffering have been a part of life for a long, long time. In the Christmas story we are reassured that even in the midst of horror, God comes to bring peace. This is unexpected peace--it does not right every wrong, it does not take away all pain. But it is real nonetheless, and good news for those of us who need hope and who can experience spiritual healing in our messy lives. I am praying that somehow, in the midst of such suffering, God will show up for Eddie and Kori in this peace-in-suffering kind of way.

Thank you all for standing with them in this time,
Melissa
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  1. JaneDecember 31, 2012 at 1:32 PM

    So sorry to hear this. Sending Eddie and his family prayers for peace and release from suffering.

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