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Arrangements

A Funeral Mass will be held for Carter on Friday Feb. 15th at 5:30 pm at St Henry on Dixie Hwy in Elsmere.
Family will attend his burial on Saturday morning.

Goodbye Sweet Boy

It is with a tearful heart that I have to tell you that our beautiful son Carter passed away last night in our arms. We know he is in a better place and pray that the angels take care of our little man. I will post information about his services when they are arranged.

Still waiting for a wet diaper

We are still waiting for pee. To be honest with you he looks awful right now. The Drs say if he doesn't pee today or tomorrow that will be it. We are going to camp out up at the hospital for now. We pray the next post will be good news.

He's hanging in there

Carter is trying to hang in there. He is having blood pressure problems again so yet again he isn't peeing. He REALLY needs to pee. He is very puffy again. He can't even open his eyes his face is so swollen. His blood pressure has been rising slightly (with help from meds) so we are getting some drops of pee. Hopefully by the morning we will have some full on wet diapers. They are still treating him with an anitbiotic and antifungal. He has the fungal infection in his blood now too so they are working to get that wiped out.

When it's bad it's bad, and this is worse

Carter is having a really rough time right now. He had a total of 3 times yesterday (one I told you about early in the morning) where he dropped his heartrate and had to have CPR. Luke and I went in to see him about 5:00 pm after he'd had his second episode. The Dr's were very concerned but we still were very postive. When he did it again at 7pm and the Drs came to talk to us again, it finally hit us that our beautiful little boy might not make it through the night. We had the Chaplin come visit and she baptised him for us. It was the hardest thing we've ever done. We spent the night there with him and thankfully he had no more episodes. His ventinlator settings are still very high but he seems to be doing ok. He is trying so hard to hang in there. His little body is just tired from fighting off infection after infection.

There is good news. Daddy got to hold Carter late last night. I have a ton of pictures and I will post them as soon as I have time. "Aunt" Danielle and Lauren also got to sneak in about midnight. They'd brought us some clean clothes and against NICU policy were allowed back to see him. I guess when your child is that fragile they let you do whatever you want.

Thank you too to Micah and Kate who helped with letting Danielle in the house and taking Nacho over to his Grandma and Grandpa's. Thank you everyone who reads this blog. If it weren't for your love and support I think we'd have had a mental breakdown last night. Please keep praying for Carter. One of our friends said "There are a lot of people praying for Carter and God wouldn't let that many people down." I pray they are right.

Still infected...with something

They took him off of one of his antibiotics yesterday and today his white blood cell count shot up, so he is back on a new antibiotic along with an antifungal. (preemies are prone to getting infections easily) He is also back on his blood pressure medicine b/c he was dropping his blood pressure and starting to take on fluid again last night. This morning he is succuessfully peeing again. He looks great, but you can tell he is pretty sick. He just lays there and looks around when he is awake, but most of the time he just sleeps. It's been a few weeks since i've seen him really active, probably b/c of all the crap he's been going through.