Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Update on my nephew, Caleb

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for Caleb. He just had his adnoids & tonsils removed this past weekend and everyone was hoping this would be the turning point in his health.

I received this update from my sister, Danelle, this morning:

"Just wanted you to know that I had to take Caleb in to the ER last night. He had had a high fever of 103.4 Sunday night. Monday morning we called the surgeon's office. They said to call back if it spiked again. He was already on acetemetophin with codein and the fever wasn't going down. Monday, early evening it was back up to 102.4 and we couldn't give him anything else. We called again, and, this time, they told us to take him in to the ER here. They didn't think it had anything with the surgery, and that something else was going on in conjunction with the surgery recovery. It turns out that Caleb has pnuemonia. We switched antiobiotics for him, and are watching him carefully. Thankfully, our ER doctor was very good. Sometimes ER doctors aren't. If we don't see improvement soon, we'll get him admitted (probably to the same place he had his recent surgery). This morning his fever was still 102. This is definitely a huge concern. Please pray for him. Overall, he's still fragile. I am also not looking forward to another hospital stay."

I appreciate all of you who have been praying for him during this ongoing saga. Please also pray for Danelle and her husband, Mark (pictured above). I'm sure this has been very draining on them.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Wow. One thing after another. All three will be in our prayers. What a precious little boy he is. It's nice that you posted a picture so that we can put a face to the "prayer."

Richelle Wright said...

have been and will continue to pray for their whole family.

James, Erica, Eliana and Landon said...

Thank you for keeping us updated on your sister's family. We will continue to lift them up in prayer.

Rebekah Downs said...

We will definitely continue to pray for the Lord's strength on their family. He looks like such a sweet little boy. I hate that he has to suffer so much at such a young age.

Keep us updated...