Update

Wow, we knew this was going to be a roller coaster ride and that we would have good days and bad days, but knowing it and living it were two different things until today!

Karsyn didn’t have a very good night.  All her levels were dropping and rising and fluctuating quite a bit and they were concerned this was due to a hole in her PDA (a valve connected to the heart that doesn’t always close properly in preemies).   They do an echo cardiogram (basically an ultrasound) on their heart to see if the whole is big, little, closing, and etc.  Her’s was very big and showed no signs of closing on it’s own, and since it seemed to be agitating her they decided to go ahead and do surgery to close it.  They went in a placed a clamp on the PDA, and the dr. said her blood pressure began to immediately stabilize and it appeared to have gone very well.   Jeff and I are struggling to learn what all these different valves and issues are and what these medical terms mean…please bear with me if I don’t always make things completely clear…..sometimes I just don’t know enough to be able to aptly communicate it on the blog! 

Today has been very stressful and emotional for Jeff and I.  I can’t explain how hard it is, even though we know it’s common, to watch your child struggle and to feel so helpless.  To not even be able to hold them and make sure they know you love them.  To have to walk out of the room knowing they’re putting your 2 day old daughter under anesthesia, to go in a close a valve on her heart – definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.  Needless to say we’ve gone through a couple of packs of  Kleenex (thank you lindsay!),  gotten a few strange looks in the halls, and have very swollen eyes and splotchy faces!  BUT we’re still here!  We know God is in complete control and we can definitely feel his arms wrapped around us and his hands holding our precious babies. 

Dr. Bloss is the surgeon that worked on Karsyn, and as he was explaining things to us he looked at me and said “pray for me, and I’ll take care of her as if she were my own”.  This was such a source of encouragement for me, to know that Karsyn was in the hands of a God fearing man was such a relief.  As he came out to tell us that everything went well, he said you know we don’t deal the cards we just play them and know God is in control.  It’s so amazing to us how people are coming out of the woodwork to support us and pray for us.  People we don’t even know.  We are so very thankful and are so in awe of our amazing and powerful God.

Please continue to keep Karsyn and Kaden in your prayers.  Specific things at the moment:

Karsyn:  The PDA is closed, but they’re not sure where the blood went.  Could be in the lungs which would be good news, but it could have gone to her brain which will have complicated things a little. 

Kaden:  His echo cardiogram showed a very small hole that they believe will close on it’s own with a little help from medicine.  So pray that he doesn’t have to have the surgery as well.  We should know in the next few days

Thanks again….we love and appreciate you all more than you will ever know.