ANC Surfaces

Well we have an ANC (absolute nutrafil count - these are the germ eaters). It is not a big one but this morning when Simon woke up fussing and I accidently hit the wrong button on his pump and had to call the nurse, Bridgett came dancing in the room all excited pointing at the board where I ask daily counts be written saying we have an ANC. We were both really excited. This means the cells are coming back. YEAH!!!!! We are at day 13. It seems so soon to me but its in the normal time frame and we are hopeful they are Marrianas cells. They stopped one of the antibiotics today and will think about stopping another in a day or two once the white cells attack the g-tube infection and start clearing it up. So this is good news. We still are dealing with alot of diarrhea, vomitting a few times a day and he is not eating or drinking barely anything. Those things hopefully will come back with time. Its hard not to see your baby eat but I have faith that it will come back. It took me almost 9 months to get him to want to eat so I'll give him a few weeks to decide its okay to enjoy food again.

We wanted to ask for some extra special prayers this week. At this very holy time for many of us we ask that you pray for Simon to have the returning cells be all Marrianas and that they stay with him for the rest of a very long, healthy life. Thank you so much. God Bless Everyone. Love Tracy and David