A Few Prayer Requests

I have some prayer requests for those of you who would like to pray for us!

1) Deklyn has started to have what they call snits, basically a temper tantrum. He gets very up set with the tube going down his throat and decides to clamp down on it so hard that he doesn't get air. He turns a very scary purply/black, they then need to what they call "bag him" which is basically attaching a pump to his tubes to force air into him and if that doesn't work or it is taking to long they have a medication that they spray in his nose that is supposed to get them right out of the 'snit'. He so far has only had one but we would really appreciate prayers that he never has one again, we are told that they are perfectly normal but we would still like him not to have them.

2) On top of that we would also like prayers that his tube doesn't come out again (until its supposed to!) They keep telling us it will happen again, as he gets stronger he could just move his head and it will come out but we are just believing it won't. We don't want him to have to go through that again or us for that matter!

 3) They did an ultrasound of Deklyn's kidneys and praise the Lord they are just fine! He is on a medication that is making him pee alot to get rid of his swelling, but in doing that alot of calcium is being brought through the kidneys which can be unsafe. But while they were doing the ultrasound they found a spot on his liver, so far it hasn't affected anything which is great. They are not sure if the liver got damaged when he was born when they put lines in through his belly button or if its a birth defect. They are not worried about it yet but they need to keep an eye on it. We are just believing and praying that it will be nothing or it will go away.

4) Last one for now! Deklyn is going to need surgery to have a line put in for taking blood, or if he needs any medication it can go through that so they don't always need to poke him with a needle. He needs stuff like that everyday so it is a good idea for a line to be put in. I would just like prayer for peace for Sheridan and I as it is never fun to have your child go through surgery, and of course also for it to go amazingly well and to have no complications. Right now we don't know when this will be taking place but it could really be any day.

Thank you to everyone who's praying and believing with us for Deklyn's healing! This whole situation would be a whole lot harder to go through without all of you! You see a lot of different situations in NICU and this last week we saw one family go through a very tough situation. I saw when their baby came into NICU and I knew this was a serious situation. Their baby got moved to the spot beside Deklyn for a few days so we got to talk with them a little. Their baby had been perfectly fine right up until he was about to be born. He went about 20 minutes without oxygen and that was enough to give him so much brain damage that he really wasn't going to have good quality of life and at that point the plan was to take him of life support. My heart is just broken for them, and I couldn't imagine what that would feel like. I really couldn't believe how strong they were, you really don't have to look far to see someone who's situation is worse than yours.