Please Help Us Support Natalie – Updated

Update: I’m sad to pass on the news today that little Gavin passed away earlier today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Natalie and we hope you’ll keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

I don’t normally use this blog to post about more personal things but as it relates to one of our much loved members of our writing team whose family is going through a very tough time I thought it would be worth posting in the hope that our community might be able to lend some support – after all, that’s what I started this site to do.

As many of you know, one of our long time writers, Natalie Norton, has an 8 week old son who is battling fiercly with a vicious case of Pertussis (Whooping Cough). On top of that, baby Gavin (pictured right) has developed RSV, pneumonia and most recently a blood infection.  

The severity of his case is compounded by the lack of medical research in dealing with this type of disease as it is particularly rare (though it has apparently begun to rear it’s ugly head in recent months). At this point he is definitely in need of a medical miracle. Happily Gavin is in one of the most reputable pediatric intensive care units in the United States, and he is being monitered and treated  by a dedicated team of doctors and nurses who are working around the clock to save her little son.

Natalie and her family are full of a remarkable level of faith and hope that their little boy will overcome, but obviously any prayers and positive energy would help! We are simply wanting to put this need out there to our community and would ask you respond in the best way you know how.
If that’s to pray – please pray. If that’s to send a message of support to Natalie – you can do so through Twitter or her blog (details below), if that’s to send some positive healing energy Gavin’s way – please do that. You can see updates on Gavin’s condition through Natalie’s twitter updates (www.twitter.com/natalienorton) as well as on her personal blog at www.natalienortonphoto.com.

Update: I’m sad to pass on the news today that little Gavin passed away earlier today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Natalie and we hope you’ll keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.