Friday, December 12, 2008

update - Baby Samuel

I just spoke with Samuel's Daddy. Right now he is still at Children's in critical condition. He is on the "severe side" of this condition, but there are some pluses. He is 7 pounds 11 oz, and his heart is healthy. The diaphragmatic hernia is on the right side of his chest and his liver is moved up through to the lung's position. He is on a ventilator right now - was switched to an oscillator ventilator overnight and was responding better to that this a.m. The doctors are cautiously optimistic at this point, saying it may take days or weeks to wean him off his ventilator and then they will perform surgery to correct the defect. He is not out of the woods yet though. His two big sisters have not been able to visit him because visitation is currently limited to parents and grandparents. Greg said that things were very rough last night - that he was blue on the table after delivery and it took a full minute to get him breathing at all. He said that he looks like an angel from the outside you wouldn't be able to tell that anything is wrong.
Specific prayer requests are that Samuel has enough lung tissue to survive, and that he will continue to respond well to his ventilator and be able to come off it to have the surgery.

I am off to visit with Leyla now.
Thanks and keep the prayers coming!

3 Comments:

At 4:07 PM, Blogger CDHi Admin said...

Prayers for Samuel and his family. please let us know what we can do to help.

Dawn

CHERUBS - The Association of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Research, Awareness and Support

http://www.cdhsupport.org

 
At 6:42 PM, Blogger ftmomma said...

Thank you Dawn! I have passed on the info. I am sure that it will mean a great deal to them. It means a lot to me that you commented. Blessings. -Beth

 
At 1:54 PM, Blogger mhutsell said...

Oh please please please give them BIG hugs for us. Being pregnant right now makes the reality so real and I just ache for them. Glad you are there loving them. Thanks for the updates...M.

 

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