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| Clockwise from top: Isaac, Will, Marcie, Seth, Gracie, David |
Jemimah did a fantastic job on this article of our crazy, grace-saturated story! In the UK it's published in an actual hard-copy magazine. I wish they sold it in PNG so I could get a copy! They don't ship out of the country.
There are a couple of details that aren't exactly right, but it was my fault in the interview for not clarifying.
It was 8, not 9, years (thank God) before we had a successful pregnancy.
Also, my miscarriage was before my ectopic rupture by 4 weeks - it was twins, one in uterus, one in fallopian tube, which later ruptured.
We didn't go back to the USA to do fertility treatments, but we did take advantage of our regularly-scheduled furlough - after a solid three-year stint in PNG - to try to conceive and then prevent a miscarriage. My body wasn't doing well on its own!
Gracie and Marcie (not Seth) were the two smallest, but Marcie was only half-an-ounce smaller than Seth. The problem was that he came out after Marcie, and he was a "wimpy white boy," as they say in the NICU. [White baby boys do the worst for some reason. Will and David were great, overall, but last-born boy Seth not so much.]
Gavin does indeed do wonderful, needful medical flying, but his primary role is flying Bible translators and church planters in and out of the bush. 💕
