I'm writing to ask you to pray for Jacob. He's just not doing well. They discovered a couple days ago that he has a staff infection (probably from one of his IV lines) and has been on antibiotics to clear it, which seem to be helping in some respects. But he's clearly not feeling well as he's still relying on the ventilator to help him breathe and he's become more sick. The biggest concern, however, is that he's been storing fluids. He's been gaining an inordinate amount of weight for the past few days - not real weight but fluid retention weight, and hasn't been peeing out the excess fluid as he should. The concern is why he isn't mobilizing his fluids, why his kidneys aren't functioning as well, and that the excessive swelling/puffiness will cause his very stretched skin to break down. They believe the root of this is nutritionally based, as he's had a number of diahretic medication treatments (which by nature flush everything out), antibiotics, surgery, not to mention not being able to get breast milk feeds for a number of days (related to surgery), etc. - all things that have thrown off his nutrition balance. They're trying to figure out the problem to then correct it, but each day it has gotten worse and consequently is a more serious issue now. (And they aren't even going to try to get him off the ventilator, which needs to happen, until he recovers.) So the big prayer request is for overall nutritional balance, that he'd mobilize all that excess fluid, and that his kidneys would start working better.
This is a bit scary for us parents and we're asking God to touch and heal his little body and ask you to join us in that!
Love,
Brad and Arja
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