Dear Friends,
Sunday evening R and J discovered that Sierra Rose has an infection at the incision site for her feeding tube. The e-mail update they sent out has more information; it is below. If this infection has spread internally, it could be really bad for Sierra. Please pray that the infection is only minor and will respond well to the antibiotics. Aside from this infection, Sierra Rose has been doing really well. We thank you for remaining faithful in your prayers.
--MK
This evening we found out that Sierra has an infection where the incision from her surgery is. The nurse practitioner is checking her blood count and getting a culture. Her white blood count was normal which is a good thing. If it had been dropping they would have been concerned. Her platelet levels were also good. They will not have the results of the culture for about 2 days. They want to make sure that the infection has not spread to her blood. He didn’t think that it had but he wanted to test as a precaution. They are also starting her on antibiotics.
As far as her feedings, Sierra is doing very well. They are increasing her feedings by 1cc every three hours. As of today she had reached 15cc’s per feeding. Her suck is still very weak and she takes a long time, but so far, she has been able to take all of her feedings by bottle. Once they get to be larger she will probably reach a point where she is not able to keep up with it and therefore will have to be fed what she can’t take through the G-tube. The goal is for her to be taking between 45 and 70 cc’s every three hours.
We covet your continued prayers.
PRAISES
She is doing well with her feedings
PRAYER REQUESTS
That the infection would not have spread to her blood
That her body would be able to fight the infection and get rid of it soon
That her stomach would be able to tolerate the increased feedings.
--R and J
Monday, October 29, 2007
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