Nicholas

Nicholas is in need of everyone's prayers. This morning they took an X-ray of his stomach and noticed a little spot of concern. They decided to watch it closely and do another x-ray at noon. After that x-ray, the doctor called and informed me that there was a place of concern in his intestines and that they decided to keep him off foods and start antibiotics for seven days. When we got to the hospital tonight around 7, they did another x-ray, and the doctor on call came to talk to us.

he has a condition called NEC. Basically what happened is that his intestines were not mature enough yet to handle the milk and started to grow an infection. There is a spot on his bowel that has started to stretch very thin and has a high likelyhood of tearing. Should this happen, he will have to be rushed into emergency surgery.

We are hoping and praying that the antibiotics will get in him and stop the infection before this happens, but the doctor said that in his experience, it is very a high likelyhood that he will have to have the surgery. Please pray for little Nicholas. Please pray that he will be OK and that his little body will not have to go through surgery.

Thanks,
Mommy