God's Healing Hand

The reason we are in the hospital is because Caleb is not gaining much weight, he's breathing fast, about 60 respirations per minute, the norm is 40, and because he has been vomitting. He has been diagnosed with relux and is on a medicine for that. He is not vomitting so much now.

The biggest concern is that he still has too much blood flow to the lungs, hence his fast respiration rate. We were hoping that he would grow into his shunt and his blood flow to the lungs would decrease to a normal level. This hasn't happened yet. The doctors want him watched closely. They will be doing an echo on Sunday. They have also called for a chest x-ray and blood work. They will discuss his case in their conference meeting on Wednesday. It is likely that they will want to send him to the cath lab to investigate further before they decide on whether or not he needs another surgery.

We were expecting that his second surgery (the Glenn) would take place at 4-6 months. Now it's possible that it could happen during this hospital stay. He's still pretty small so that makes the Glenn more difficult and the risk greater.

We are hoping that he won't need surgery. We are hoping that he will start gaining weight without vomitting and start breathing at a normal rate. We know that nothing is too difficult for the Lord. He is able to do immeasurably more than all we could imagine or ask. Lord, stretch forth your hand to heal.