Update on Baby William

First, I want to thank each one of you for your prayers and sup­port. I have received so many emails or com­ments on the blog from friends and peo­ple I don’t even know assur­ing me that they are pray­ing and sup­port­ing the Lane fam­ily. We are all extremely thank­ful. Yes­ter­day I received the fol­low­ing update on Face­book in the group “Sup­port William Christo­pher Lane”. Please feel free to join to receive fur­ther updates and see more pic­tures of the fam­ily. Jason, William’s uncle, gave this update that I wanted to share with all of you.

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Yes­ter­day Jan­u­ary 12, 2009, Ron­nie and Emily Lane informed the fam­ily that start­ing today Jan­u­ary 13, 2009, the doc­tors would start wean­ing William Christo­pher Lane off of the ven­ti­la­tor. By Fri­day Jan­u­ary 16, 2009, the doc­tors will have a pretty good idea of whether or not William will be able to breathe on his own. If on Fri­day William can breathe on his own Ron­nie and Emily will have to reeval­u­ate the sit­u­a­tion to fig­ure out the best plan of action for help­ing William. The doc­tors have informed us that because the major­ity of William’s brain has been killed by the swelling due to the infec­tion, William will never be able to see, hear, or feel, unless there is some kind of mir­a­cle that sur­passes all human under­stand­ing. The real­ity of the sit­u­a­tion is that the doc­tors give William a 1 in a 100 chance of being able to breathe with­out a ven­ti­la­tor and if he can­not Ron­nie and Emily have come to the deci­sion that on Sun­day Jan­u­ary 18, 2009, William Christo­pher Lane will be taken off life sup­port. This is a deci­sion that no par­ent should ever be asked to make and the entire fam­ily stands behind Ron­nie and Emily in their choice. Ron­nie and Emily have always put their chil­dren first and they’re only doing what they believe to be right for William and their fam­ily. Please do not give up hope or stop pray­ing for a mir­a­cle because our fam­ily needs your hope and prayers now more than ever. Thank you all so much for your sup­port through this extra­or­di­nar­ily dif­fi­cult time for our fam­ily. God Bless.

For any­one who is look­ing to make dona­tions to the Lane fam­ily 1st Finan­cial Fed­eral Credit Union has opened an account in William’s honor. 100% of the money raised in this account will be given to Ron­nie and Emily to aid them in pay­ing the ever mount­ing hos­pi­tal bills and help because Ron­nie is on emer­gency fam­ily med­ical leave from work with no pay. Thank You.

If you are in the St. Louis area you can visit any of the four 1st Finan­cial Fed­eral Credit Union loca­tions to make dona­tions. Just go up to a teller and say you would like to make a dona­tion to the William Lane Dona­tion fund. The infor­ma­tion needed is as fol­lows:
Account Name is: William Lane Dona­tion Fund
Account Num­ber is: 60108251409

The Four 1st Finan­cial Fed­eral Credit Union loca­tions are:
Down­town
1407 Wash­ing­ton Ave
St. Louis, MO 63103

Hazel­wood
5916 N. Lind­berg Blvd
Hazel­wood, MO 63042

St. Charles
1550 Coun­try Club Plaza Dr
St. Charles, MO 63303

Wentzville
1232 Wentzville Park­way
Wentzville, MO 63385

If you’re not in the St. Louis area or you don’t have time to travel to one of the four loca­tions you can send dona­tions by mail to the atten­tion of Nancy Lane at the Hazel­wood 1st Finan­cial FCU address.

Hazel­wood
5916 N. Lind­berg Blvd
Hazel­wood, MO 63042

All checks can be made payable to:
William Lane Dona­tion Fund

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Here is another pre­cious pic­ture of William Christo­pher. We all love you!