Prayers for Eloise – in St George’s hospital

We would value prayers for Eloise. After last week’s blog, Eloise is again in hospital. This time, straight after Eloise doing her first nativity play we went to the doctor (Wednesday) who told us to go straight into the Royal Surrey Hospital.

After 24 hours of tests (normal urine, stool, blood cultures etc) and chest X-rays etc at the Royal Surrey, Eloise was transferred to St George’s in London. She is still there and at the moment we haven’t got to the bottom of what the issue is.

In short, something still isn’t right. Her bloods aren’t right but doctors can’t locate an infection or see many clinical signs. She’s been up and down for over 2.5 weeks and ‘hasn’t been right’ but clinically she seems a little better after having had 3 days of IV antibiotics. Last night at 9pm as we thought we were about to be discharged when we were told her respiratory rate wasn’t right and we need to stay in. It appears we still haven’t got to the bottom of everything. As we understand, more tests are now going to be done..

For those that pray:

• Please pray for our darling Eloise who again is being a superstar. Pray for her health. Pray for her to not be too bored and/or lose too much strength etc whilst in hospital. Pray for continued patience for her as ‘more gets done to her’.
• Pray for wisdom for the doctors. Pray the doctors can get to the bottom of whatever is going on. Pray for real clarity and for ‘things to make sense’.
• Please pray for Anna. The uncertainty of the past week and disruption has had a big impact – with it being so unpredictable and with St George’s so far (traffic is dreadful at the moment) she’s had lots of disruption, late nights, limited food etc. Anna wants to be with Eloise and us where she can.
• Please pray this is ‘just an infection’ that she will recover from quickly and ‘nothing else’. We don’t know what the latter is, but we’d be grateful for you to pray that this isn’t anything serious.
• Give thanks that clinically Eloise has done better for a couple of days – better than she’s been for a few weeks. Pray this continues.
• Give thanks thanks that doctors and nurses are taking this seriously and wanting to get to an answer and get Eloise well again.
• Pray for strength and resilience for us. Uncertainty, unpredictability, sleeping on hospital wards/moving around and always changing logistics is rather exhausting.