Prayers and Support Needed for Little Wyatt

Do you remember Little Wyatt Lynas, 3, from Viola, Idaho?  Wyatt was featured in last year’s year end newsletter. This week, Wyatt’s parents learned he will need to return to Children’s Hospital Boston for another major heart surgery on October 23, 2009. Wyatt’s mitral, tricuspid, and aortic valves have been leaking, and need to be replaced.  Doctors in Boston plan to replace his mitral and tricuspid valves with mechanical valves. In addition, they’ll also to perform the Ross procedure, which involves taking the pulmonary valve and making it into the aortic valve and then using a cadaver valve for the pulmonary valve.  Without this surgery, Wyatt’s valves could give out at any time and put him in a more critical situation.

The Lynas family are requesting your prayer support as they travel back to Boston. They are so thankful to the Foundation and all the wonderful people out there – people that they’ve never met - who are willing to pray for their sweet little guy. Prayer is what has gotten them this far; and they are thankful to everyone who has supported their family along the course of their journey.

Monique, Wyatt’s mom, says, “I have met several kiddos and parents with mechanical hearts waiting for a transplant; and that is a long hard road.  We just pray to get through today and try to remember that broken heart or not, none of us are promised tomorrow.”

You are invited to follow along directly with Wyatt’s progress via his Care Page website:

http://www.carepages.com/carepages/Wyattlynas/updates/2386192?client_code=chb&ipc=mur