Tonight, the world feels smaller — drawn into one hospital room, one beating heart, and one desperate prayer. Eleven-year-old Jaiana, a little girl full of light, laughter, and love, is now fighting for her life.
Her mother’s plea is raw and trembling — a cry for help that no parent ever wants to make.
“Calling all prayer warriors!!!! My princess is in critical condition at Children’s Nebraska,” she wrote, her words pulsing with urgency and heartbreak. “She was flown out from Blank this morning around 9 a.m.”
It had been a terrifying morning from the start. Something in her mother’s gut told her that things weren’t right, that the hospital where Jaiana had been staying could no longer give her the care she needed. Within hours, a helicopter lifted her baby girl into the sky, bound for a higher-level facility.
But even then, nothing could prepare them for what came next.
“Once at Children’s and in her room, they tried intubating Jai,” her mom shared. “She coded!!!”
Those words — simple, devastating — describe the moment her heart stopped. The medical team immediately began CPR, fighting to bring her back.
“Fifteen minutes of CPR,” her mother wrote. “They immediately put her on ECMO.”
ECMO — a machine that takes over the heart and lungs — is often a last resort. It means her body needs help doing what it can’t do on its own. It means she’s in the fight of her life.
“She is now in the cath lab getting a procedure done,” her mom continued. “My baby girl has a lot of blood from the left ventricle. So they need to get the blood drained if you will. My brain is numb.”
Even through the numbness, her words carry a mother’s fierce love — the kind that refuses to give up, even when fear threatens to swallow everything.
Jaiana’s medical team worked around the clock, running tests, draining blood, and stabilizing her heart. But another wave of bad news followed.
“Her potassium was 8.4,” her mom explained quietly. “We were told a heart can stop at 8.”
Those numbers — so clinical on a chart — mean life and death in moments like these. The dangerously high potassium levels caused her heart to falter, leading to what doctors called an
AKI — acute kidney injury. Dialysis was the only way to help remove the potassium and give her heart a chance to recover.
“She also has to have dialysis to remove the potassium,” her mom wrote. “She did have another AKI. This is serious and scary!!”
It is every parent’s nightmare — the sight of their child surrounded by machines, their tiny body covered in tubes, their life depending on wires and prayers.
But amid the fear, one thing remains unbroken: faith.
“Please keep all of us in prayer,” she asked. “Grammy Cheryl and I have a lot ahead of us, but GOD’S got our princess!!!”
Those words — trembling but resolute — are a declaration of faith stronger than fear. Because even when everything feels impossible, this family still believes that God is holding their little girl close, guiding the hands of the doctors, and keeping her heart beating.
It has been a long, exhausting road for Jaiana and her loved ones. Every hospital trip, every setback, every sleepless night has tested their strength. Yet through it all, her mother has remained her fiercest protector and her loudest cheerleader.
“She’s our princess,” she said simply. And anyone who’s met Jai knows that’s exactly what she is — a girl who radiates kindness, joy, and courage far beyond her years.
Now, as she lies in the care of a dedicated medical team, her family waits. They pray. They hold hands and whisper her name. They lean on faith and the love of a community that has rallied around them before — and will do so again.
Because this little girl, this brave warrior, has already touched more lives than she will ever know.
So tonight, as monitors beep and machines hum softly in that hospital room, her mother’s words echo through hearts across the country:
Please pray for Jaiana.
Pray for her healing.
Pray for her strength.
Pray for peace to fill the hearts of the family who love her more than anything.
💜 Hold her close in your thoughts tonight. Because somewhere between heaven and earth, one small princess is fighting — and her family still believes in miracles.