Another Rough Week Ahead

I am not going to preface this post with a bunch of small details leading up to where we are currently.  Joey's health appeared to be declining the past two days and sure enough, we have another problem.   Joey was showing signs of an infection, and they have discovered that he's got something called Pneumatosis Intestinalis which is also causing infection of the blood.   Joey had been recovering nicely from the previous cardiac arrests from two weeks ago, but he's still a very sick baby.   The latest complication is now the 4th body system to be compromised due to his condition.(Cardiac, Respiratory, Renal, and now Digestive)   Just to put this in perspective, ICU considers the compromise of 3 bodily functions to be very critical, and we have 4.   Having that many issues is usually a early sign of the body shutting down.  Joey currently has been provided some aggressive antibiotics to counter the infections.   The antibiotics that he is on are pretty much our last resort for treatment in our situation.  Eric and I will spending the next few days praying for positive outcome while staring death in the face.

We wanted to wait till Joey was discharged from the Hospital to do a traditional Baptism for him, but given the severity of the situation, we decided to do so tonight.

Please continue to keep little Joey in your thoughts and prayers as we venture down this very rough path.