Eric and Lisa

Sometimes life doesn't seem fair. It seems like some people have to go through more than a human being should be able to handle. Our friends Jeremiah and Laura Borke are two such people. They recently lost the lives of their two newborn twin sons. While the twins were in Laura's womb, it was discovered that they had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome -- basically that one twin was "stealing" a lot of the nutrients from the other twin. Through much prayer, the twins were able to make it several weeks past the 26-week deadline that the doctors had set for them, and last Monday (a week ago today), they performed an emergency c-section on Laura to deliver the twins. The first one, Taran, died only 8 minutes after delivery. If he had not lived long enough to be delivered, his brother, Tegid, would not have made it out of the womb alive. Tegid did arrive, though, because of his brother's heroism. However, his kidneys were not strong enough to support him yet, and on Friday at about 8pm, he also died. So after all this turmoil and worry, Jare and Laura have had to go home empty-handed. Our hearts break with them in this tragedy, and our prayers and tears are with them.