Another prayer request.

[MississippiBoy]

Some very good friends of my wife and I, a couple named David and Chelcie, are going through a pretty rough time right now. Chelcie is pregnant, and everything up until Tuesday was perfect, when she went in for a regular ultrasound checkup. They saw a couple of things that worried them, so she went back Wednesday for an MRI. They discovered that the baby has 3 separate conditions, 2 not so bad and 1 that could be bad, or maybe not...
First, the baby has clubbed feet. Not sure of the severity, but they can fix that with therapy, braces, and maybe minor surgery. She also has bilateral pylectosis, which is a swelling of part of the kidneys. They say this will usually resolve itself after birth, so they'll just keep an eye on it, but it's not something to really worry about.
The big one is something called "agenesis of the corpus collasum." The corpus collasum is the bridge between the two lobes of the brain, with 200-250 million connections that let the two hemispheres communicate with each other. "Agenesis" means that this structure either did not develop at all, or just not as much as it should. This means there will most likely be some level of mental retardation, but there's no telling how severe. She could grow up to lead an almost perfectly normal life, with maybe just some delays in learning to crawl, walk, talk, etc, difficulties in complex problem solving and social interactions, and other fairly minor things. Or, she could have some significant retardation...they won't know for years how bad. There's also a chance that she might have some kind of syndrome. There's a whole list of them associated with this...they're doing an amniocentesis (sp?) today to determine if she does have a syndrome, and it usually takes about a week to get the results.
I'd appreciate all the prayers you can give, both for the baby and for her parents. They're in the "Why me?" stage now, but hopefully they'll be able to accept it and learn how to deal with it soon. Thanks, everybody.