----- Original Message -----
From:
Scott
and Kathy Rosenow
To:
'joyce'
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: Your babies
Okay, Joyce. We will
continue to pray for the babies, for your heart, and for clear leading. But
I have to say that none of us thinks it is at all unprofessional for you to
cry on the phone---or anywhere else---about your babies. (Alison is here
visiting for our annual banquet next week, and we discussed this in our
living room when your email came in.) I would think that if you ever get to
the point that you stop crying about their pain, and crying out of
frustration about the brick walls you hit up against over and over again,
that would be the time to evaluate staying or leaving. I don't see how it
would be possible to do this without shedding tears for them. We can't do
it, and we are getting their stories through e-mail and pictures---you are
there holding their little bodies, watching them suffer, feeding, cleaning,
caring for, and loving them. How could you not cry. I think that He cried
for hurting babies when He walked the Earth, don't you? Please feel free to
unload to us anytime you feel the need. I only wish it could be done face
to face instead of always via e-mail.
Love to you tonight,
Kathy (and Scott)
************************
Scott and Kathy Rosenow
The Shepherd's Crook Ministries
P.O. Box 773
West Chester, Ohio 45071
513.844.8873
www.theshepherdscrook.org
Scott and Kathy Rosenow
The Shepherd's Crook Ministries
P.O. Box 773
West Chester, Ohio 45071
513.844.8873
www.theshepherdscrook.org
-----Original Message-----
From: joyce [mailto:joyce@hopefosterhome.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Scott and Kathy Rosenow
Cc: alison@theshepherdscrook.org; iaap@iaapadoption.com
Subject: Re: Your babies
Dear Kathy and everyone.Thank you for the emotional support.This past month has been a very rough time for me and last night my husband said that unless I am able to handle my emotions somehow , I will not be able to carry on with this work. He said it with greatest of love and concern for me but I don't know how to handle my emotions. It is so unprofessional for me to cry on the phone when talking to people over the last few days to move the 2 babies around trying to get the best care for them but just the thought of them not being given pain medication and clean water to drink in a major Chinese Children's hospital just devastated me and I could not hold it together. I even had to fight to get them out of that hospital. It seems to be such a battle to do everything here. I am hoping that these trials will continue to strengthen me in His eyes though my weaknesses disappoint me greatly.We meet in a few hours with the Beijing United Hospital Palliative Care Committee re Dong Yu and I will let you know the outcome but I think the decision will be to let her go.Thank you for offering to raise funds but right now I don't need any as the babies are being treated for free at Beijing United Hospital. If they decide on just palliative care for Dong Yu I think I will bring her home and continue treatment here as long a they will provide me with the drugs I need. This will save their foundation some money which will go to another baby when the need arises.If and when we need Tien to come back, we will look at the funding issue then. Our Father has never let us down.With all this going on I am also organizing for 4 kids in the next few months to go overseas for surgery, one to Australia ( Craniofacial defect) and 3 to Singapore ( cardiac, bowel and genital defects) Sometimes I feel like a lone traffic cop at a busy intersection, on 24 hour duty.Thanks for letting me "unload" on you guys. It helps.Much loveJoyce----- Original Message -----From: Scott and Kathy RosenowSent: Monday, June 27, 2005 2:38 PMSubject: Your babies
Dear Joyce,I am crying as I type this message. My heart is breaking for you and for these little ones. I don't know how do what you do day in and day out. I know from where your strength comes, because we have experienced that supernaturally ourselves on a daily basis, but your heart must be so very weary and war-torn. We have no surgery funds left, but if you are going to try to get funds together to have Tien come back and do anything at all, Scott and I would be honored to write our supporters and try to get more funds for these precious little ones. We feel so far away, but long to assist you in this fight on their behalf in any way that we can. It's not clear how that should be, but we want to help. Please let us know what we can do. We will drop everything and get a letter out right away if you want us to. We are anxious to hear the hospital's decision concerning little Dong Yu.Praying...Kathy (and Scott)************************
Scott and Kathy Rosenow
The Shepherd's Crook Ministries
P.O. Box 773
West Chester, Ohio 45071
513.844.8873
www.theshepherdscrook.org
and this just in today 29.6.05Dear all,
After my rather tensed conversation with Dr. Liu last night, I went to the hospital this morning expecting to see that he had done nothing. Promises often don't mean much here in China. I was overjoyed ( and that is an understatement) and Dong Yu's nanny wept. Liu operated till 2 am this morning and removed her VP shunt and she has an external drain. .I have called him up and expressed by deepest gratitude and we are friends again.
The Palliative Care and Ethics committee met again today ( a little bit in awe of the events that occurred in the last 24 hours) and they have agreed to continue to treat both the babies with heavy dose and appropriate antibiotics and hope for the best.They asked me how I managed to change Dr Liu's mind after he had decided not to operate. I said that I really didn't know .I thought that I was pretty mean to him on the phone.
I guess I have a "Friend in a High Place" whom I have to depend on when all the chips are down. The kids are still not out of the woods yet but my hopes for them have risen dramatically. I guess the next few days will tell.
Tien, assuming that all goes well, and in 2-3 weeks the infections are all clear, will you be able to come back with the medicated shunts? None of the BJU people want to send the babies back to Shanghai and they are trying to get you registered here in Beijing to operate at least for these babies. Deidre Daniel the Charity coordinator is going to try her best to swing it. If not you will be " assisted" by one of their registered surgeons ( Not Liu) and you will still be able to do it here.
Hope your schedule will allow it. I will keep you updated on their
condition. So far they are looking good.
Joyce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nguyen, Tien M.D." <TienNguyen@mednet.ucla.edu>
To: "'joyce '" <joyce@hopefosterhome.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: Dong Yu
> Strong work Joyce. I'm glad you're there fighting for them. I just called
> the shunt representative today and left a message about us wanting
> antibiotic shunts for Chinese babies.
