Avery

Wanted to give a quick update on Avery...
On Monday, we took her to the DR because she was bleeding heavily from her rectum.
After spending 2.5 hours at the DR's office, getting an xray, and having being told it could be anything from a milk allergy to a tear on her bottom (very minor things), we found out that it was much more serious.

The Dr looked at the XRay and had two other pediatric radiologists look at it and concluded that they thought it was NEC ( a very serious illness).. They told me specifically not to google it and that we were to rush her to Dell Children's hospital in Austin. I overheard her talking with the DR at Dell and talking about whether to send an ambulance and at the same time she exploded blood from her bottom, I was hysterical.

Cameron was already on his way to work (thinking it wasn't going to be a serious prognosis... and I was alone at the Dr. Thankfully one of my best friends works at Dell in the NICU, and she was able to talk me through a lot...

Cameron's dad was in town and able to take care of Dylan, which was an incredible blessing...

We took off for Dell as soon as Cam could pick me up and rushed her up there (of course at this time it was rush hour)

We arrived at Dell and took her up to the NICU and it was awful... Lots of Dr's and nurses coming in and hooking her up to machines, trying several times to get an IV started on her, and try to educate me on what was going on...

I was pretty much hysterical... The first things we were told was that I couldn't nurse her for the next 7 days and that she was not going to be able to eat... Pretty much at this point in her life, that is my job, so it was heartbreaking for me to hear. They also told us it would be a minimum of 7 day stay and explained what NEC was...

That was all day one... I was completely out of control emotions wise.. Cam was much more calm, but there is no way to feel like anything in the world is right when your baby is in the ICU...

Since then it's been a blur. We have had so many people praying for us and are convinced that is why things have turned out as they have.

Yesterday the DR came in and said they had ordered two more XRays since the original and now were not seeing any signs of NEC...

She was cont. to bleed quite a bit so there was still major concern, but the initial thoughts were worse than what they then were thinking...

There's much more I could write, but long story short, they are thinking Avery most likely got an infection which led to a low GI bleed. She has not bled for the last 16 hours... If she makes it to 24 (today), she will be able to go HOME!

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement!
Will keep you updated and pray she will be able to be home with us tonight!