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Hardingers Home Sweet Homepage
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Steve, Marcy, Bethany, Jan and Hannah Hardinger
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As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, -Joshua24:15
We thank and praise God for meeting our every need, saving us and allowing us to serve Him. God has blessed us in so many ways. He has allowed us to be a part of a Bible teaching church that preaches the gospel from the entire Bible. Our purpose here on earth is to tell other's about Jesus so that they may spend eternity in heaven. God has blessed us with a precious family. We have 3 beautiful children. Bethany, Jan and our youngest daughter Hannah. They are a heritage from the Lord. Hannah is a "very special child". Through everything we give God all the Glory, Honor and Praise.
-Steve & Marcy Hardinger
Married 9 years.
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To see more pictures of the kids click on their link at the bottom of this site. Then from that site you may see their personal sites.
Steve and I have 3 precious children. Bethany age 7, Jan Stephen Jr. age 5 and Hannah 3 years old. Praise the Lord we are able to homeschool our children. They are so eager to learn. They are active at church and enjoy meeting at God's house. Bethany and Jan sing in the children's choir at church. They enjoy being outside and walking to our creek. They both have been taught by daddy to fish. They are better at fishing than I am. We have a full breed Liver Dalmatian. His name is "Teki" for short. He goes to the creek with us. Steve enjoys hunting, fishing, and sports. I must say he is a wonderful Christian husband and father. I enjoy being a mom, singing, directing our church choir and playing music, and computers. We all enjoy being together as a family.
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Bethany, Jan and Hannah
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Hannah
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Hannah is special. She is handicapped. My pregnancy with Hannah was very difficult. I was put on bedrest for the last trimester of my pregnancy in which wonderful family and church friends were here around the clock taking care of Bethany, Jan & the house. Hannah came on her own, on her due date, July 25, 1997. She weighed 8 lb. 15 oz. She was a beautiful little girl and at birth there were no known problems. Later that day we were informed that she had hip displasia. (dislocated hips) 24 Hours after birth she had her first surgery. She then was placed in a cast, from belly to knees. She then was placed in a hip spica brace until she was 1 year old. We soon became aware that she had congenitial nystagmus (shaky eyes) and esotropia(crossed eyes). She had her second surgery on her eyes for the esotropia. We had realized that she wasn't seeing. When she was 15 months, we then found out she had extremely poor vision. Uncorrected 20/600. She then received her fist pair of glasses. She looked so precious. The first time they were placed on her face, you could see the difference in her. You could tell she could see for the very first time. It was such a miracle that the newspaper wrote an article on Hannah for the front page. She now doesnt have depth perception. She at age 9 months began physical therapy, occupational therapy, and special instruction. Since then we have added vision therapy and speech therapy. We began taking her to Pittsburgh Children's Hospital when she was 15 months old. She is 3 years old. We then became knowledgeable about our daughter, that we were lead to believe was ok. We knew she was different. Her hands at birth were tightly clinched. Her Occupational therapist, Margie Orth, then began to teach me how to stretch her hands. She always cries while being stretched but God gave me the strength to do it and her hands are much better now. She had splints that she wore at night. She still doesn't use them fully, but can get them most of the way open. She still sees an orthopedic for her hips but there are doing well. She has had feeding studies performed. She nursed well for me and could eat runny baby foods but nothing with chunks or textures. She is doing much better now, she can have some textures and eat more adult foods. She has been diagnosed with dysphagia.(swallowing disorder) During infancy she had many wheezing spells, and uses a nebulizer, later to find that the fluid she was drinking was going straight to her lungs. I now thicken all her drinks with "thick it". She no longer chokes on liquids. He has been diagnosed with asthma. She takes breathing treatments every day several times a day. She also has been diagnosed with gastricesophageal reflux and 1/2 hour before all meals takes medication. Her hard palate is abnormal and as a result her soft palate doesn't vibrate. She has submucus cleft palate. SHe has been taken for study for 5 years for the cleft palate clinic in Pitsburgh. We have been told she may not speak, but we will let God decide that. We have been taking a sign language course and teaching her. Her ear canals are too small and she does have loss of hearing if any fluid is in the canal. She has had ear surgery to open up the canal and is doing great.I must update that last statement I made concerning her ear canals. We just returned from Pitt from staying a week. Hannah had another ear surgery on both ears. This is her 4th surgery total. Hips, eyes and ears. We were told that she no longer has the extremely small ear canals. Her canals are normal. Praise God. I know its another miracle. She is seeing a geneticist. The Geneticist is trying to pinpoint if she has a genetic syndrome. She believes that she does. She is working on a diagnosis. As of now she is noted to have a unknown rare genetic disorder. She has had an MRI done that showed the milation was too thin and damage spots in the brain. She has nervous system and muscular system damage. She is developmentaly delayed and attention deficite. It was unknown if she could do anything. She has done far more already than what anyone expected.She has many specialist that she sees at Pittsburgh Childrens hospital. We take her every month. She also has 5 therapist that come into our home each week. Hannah has been covered with prayers and God has worked many miracles in her life. God has performed many miracles in her life. She is now walking. At one year of age she was a vegitable. She wasnt suppose to be able to do anything else. SHe is the most determined person I have ever met. Her body doesnt allow her to do things, but her determination figures out the way. She is always smiling and happy. She is loving and precious.
She has taught all of us how to love. Bethany and Jan are wonderful with her. They help me with her therapy. They know that handicapped individuals are special and God has made them that way. Hannah has a very special place in all of our hearts and we praise God for allowing us to be the ones to take care of her. Praise the Lord!! -
Marcy@pocketmail.com
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