Children's Heart Project

Samaritan's Purse has produced a new reality documentary of 3 Mongolian children whose lives have been saved by the same exact team of medical professionals who also have saved Chrissie's life.  The shows will be aired in San Antonio beginning this Saturday at 9PM on channel 35.  The Samaritan's Purse website also has a link to be able to view the series online, but the link hasn't been working for me.  I just wanted you all to know about this so that you, too, can "meet" the same team of doctors and nurses who I will be forever grateful to.   The cardiologist in the series is my beloved Dr. Mary Porisch (the one who is in Iraq right now performing heart catheterizations on children there...saving more lives around the world), and the cardiac surgeon in the video footage is Dr. Kupferschmid, the very man himself who performed this miraculous life-saving surgery on our Serbian Sensation!  The people working the heart/lung bypass machines are the very people who sat in Chrissie's room 24 hours around the clock, monitoring her ECMO machine, pushing blood into Chrissie, and staying on top of every single thing that could have taken Chrissie's life in order to save her.  In fact, if you visit that link above (or just click here), the lady on the website photo who has a mask over her face is Mary...she's the one who sped in to the PICU from across San Antonio to save Chrissie's life with the ECMO machine when Chrissie was dead for an hour.  Mary has spent countless hours saving Chrissie's life, even when her ECMO shifts had ended on several occassions, yet she stayed around to help Chrissie when she was fighting for her life and having several near-death episodes.  All of the doctors have gone above and beyond to help save Chrissie's life.  They've stayed at the hospital around the clock, sleeping here in many cases, just so they could be right here to help Chrissie as she struggled up and down the first two weeks here at Methodist Children's.  The video footage of this reality documentary is taken right here in the same cardiovascular operating room that Chrissie was in, in the same PICU that Chrissie is now in, being cared for by the same nursing staff and medical doctors that you'll see in this series.

God never ceases to amaze me.  I cannot believe He hooked us up with these amazing servants who perform His miracles on children around the world.  Please keep Dr. Porisch and her heart mission team in your prayers.  Dr. Porisch is spending countless hours doing heart catheterizations to save lives on precious children in Iraq.  She is such a gem.  A humble servant of the Lord, sent to our family by God Himself, hand-picked to lead us to this talented staff who work tirelessly on behalf of our princess!

Thank you Dr. Porisch, Dr. Kupferschmid, Mary, Bart, Brent and all of the AMAZING nurses and cardiovascular operating team members and PICU pediatricians who have all served selflessly to save our precious princess, Christyn Joy.  We are forever grateful, and words will never be able to express the gratitude in our hearts.