Mr. Lucas

As I write this post, I am watching Kristen feed Lucas - at Children's Hospital. Little Lucas has had a rough past 5 days. I haven't posted anything about this yet, but a bunch of you have been praying about this and we REALLY appreciate it.

So, what happened? As the week we had Lucas home progressed, his reflux got a little worse and a little worse. On Friday, he started vomiting, and by Sunday, he kept nothing down at all and was vomiting very violently. We took him into the ER, and they saw something on an ultrasound that said he needed surgery. After transferring him down to Children's getting some fluids by IV (baby IVs are never fun to see put in, or just see period :( ) on Sunday night to battle a little dehydration, he went in for stomach surgery yesterday. The surgery went well, although it wasn't as major as they thought.

We are hoping and praying that the problem has been fixed/helped out a great deal by the surgery. Doctors think Lucas does have a good case of reflux, as many babies do, but that it was further complicated by what developed in his stomach.

Lucas just threw up everything again. No fun. Square one.

Hopefully, we will get this figured out, be able to take him home soon and put yet another crazy chapter behind us. While I know there are children with other things worse than Lucas, this is so scary to Kristen and I and very stressful. So this is what it is like to love a little person like this and be a parent, eh?! Holy cow. Not only is my hair going to be completely gray, but it is going to fall out! Thanks for the prayers. Please keep 'em coming.