A Kentucky pastor is calling on his community to assist the household of a two-month-old infant who stays hospitalized with rhinovirus (RSV) and croup.
Mom Brianna Halbert, who has already suffered the disaster of losing 2 newborns, was significantly fretted over the health of her infant child Grayson Cook when he was hurried to the healthcare facility last week, WYMT reports.
The baby displayed signs of health problem on December 21 and was required to Cabell Huntington Health Center. He was ventilated the following day and stays on the gadget over a week later on.
“Now we’re just type of here on the ventilator from RSV, rhinovirus, and the croup,”Halbert informed WYMT. The experience has actually activated some terrible memories for Halbert and Grayson’s dad, Trevor Cook.
“It revives a lot of memories,” she told WYMT. “We had two young boys with dwarfism. The very first one died September 6, 2018. He had a kind of dwarfism that wasn’t able to make it at birth. He took four breaths with the physicians and then died.”
Just two years later on, on October 8, 2020, the couple experienced countless heartbreak yet once again as their second child was stillborn. Halbert, a mother to two older daughters, sustained a home fire and flood following the terrible losses, WYMT reports. After immense struggle and distress, she discovered she was pregnant with Grayson.
“Losing the two kids and after that seeing him on the ventilator,” she remembered. “I in some cases seem like, ‘What did I do to get this?’ But then I feel like God would not put me through it if I couldn’t do it.”
She spent Christmas by her son’s bedside and has been unable to work or spend much time with family while looking after him.
“I had actually just been back to work two weeks from maternity leave,” she said. “And I’m here, so I can’t work.”
She took to Facebook to request for prayers from loved ones, which caught the eye of a total stranger, Pastor Ray Davis.
“He didn’t know me from Adam and Eve. He didn’t understand me, you know, personally or anything like that,” she informed WYMT. “So when he connected to me, I type of recognized my story had actually touched a great deal of individuals’s hearts.”
Davis is a pastor at First Assembly of God in Martin.
“I pastor this church, however I think that’s the function of the Church. It does not matter whether I know them or not. To connect and reveal that we are the Church,” Davis told WYMT. “We’re the hands and feet to do and go and to make a distinction in someone’s life.”
He developed a Go Fund Me on December 28 to benefit Brianna and her family. He shared the page on his Facebook and, so far, the Go Fund Me has raised $2,200 of the $10,000 objective.
“To assist somebody like this, in a moment that you understand they don’t have any answers? Man, to see the profusion like this is just it’s it’s great,” he informed WYMT.
Halbert told WYMT that her child has actually shown signs of improvement and said she feels blessed over his development.
“If you would have seen him a couple days earlier? I imply, I literally felt like I was losing another child,” she stated.
On December 28, Grayson had adequate strength to grab onto his mom’s finger, according to Halbert’s Facebook. She and her household hope that doctors can quickly begin to gradually take Grayson off of the ventilator.
Davis described we should never ever undervalue the power of prayer.
“You understand, oftentimes, God responds to prayers through people,” he informed WYMT.