16 Days old

This morning the Dr's were really worried about his leg so they ordered an ultrasound to see the blood flow. The ultrasound couldn't find any arterial blood flow or venous blood flow so the surgeons and dr's got together and decided to bring in a vascular surgeon to see what he could do. At 1:30 they decided to do an exploratory surgery to see what was causing the blood flow to stop. Since Jake is in such critical condition they can't move him down to the OR, so they brought the OR up to our room! Tyler and I made them give us 10 minutes alone with Jake and we had a very sweet moment together. We told Jake it would be ok if he didn't want to stay with us, and wanted to go back to our Heavenly Father. We told him if he did stay it would be a lot of hard work and he would have to fight. But, if he did go back to Heavenly Father we understood and we would see him soon and he could learn how to throw a curve ball from Grandpa Dennison. It was a really sweet moment. When I pulled the curtain back for us to go outside the room, guess who was there??????????
DONELLE!!!!!!! I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!! It was completely unexpected, but sucha great suprise at the perfect moment! (Donelle is my best friend but currently lives in Texas and flew in to be with us as a suprise!!) She got to come in and see Jake and then they kicked us out to wait in the waiting room. It was a great distraction to have her in there sitting with us and waiting!!

After about 3 hours they came in and got us and explained that they could find arterial flow all the way up to the heart, but not past his groin area that had been damaged, so they put a catheter through is arterial vein and realized that the artery would spasm and block all blood flow. They gave him some medication directly into his leg, increased his heperin (blood thinner) and also started him on Flolan, something that helps to made the vessel larger to provide more area for the blood to flow through. Now we wait again to see what the leg is going to do. He will probably lose a couple of toes, but hopefully that will be all. Please continue to pray for him and his leg.

On a totally different topic, I have been pumping breastmilk since Jake was born and the hospital has been freezing it. They told me the freezer was getting a bit full so they gave me 2 bags of MY milk!! This is only from Feb 1-Feb 5th!! I must say, I was very impressed with myself!! I have never been able to breastfeed any of my kids very much, but with Jake, I am determined to give it my best shot! My sister already took home 2 other bags this size! Now we just have to get to the point that Jake can start re-feeding on Breastmilk!!

I know, way more than you needed to all know, but I am very proud!! Woohoo!!