"-Fernanda has not taken to the breakfast cereal well, very much asserting her authority to not eat when she wants to....which leads to vomitting....alot!!! It started last night and continued all day today. She didn't pee (again) for 18 hrs, but she finally peed before i left at 8pm. At one point in the day she seemed to be getting better and stronger, but tonight she only took 3 spoonfulls of cereal and vomitted 3 times and each times was tons! So now we're behind on her fluids. again. She's still not gaining weight. She's lost 2 lbs since arrival. Most of that was water/edema weight and is a good loss, but by now she should be gaining. Tomorrow she is starting on a super fortified formula with extra calories that will hopefully help. She still has a fever and I've decided that she is definately very sick with some sort of infection and is having trouble not vomitting up her antibiotics which is not helping. Please pray hard for this little girl. She should have gone to the hospital about 8 hrs ago, but I refuse to take her until she absolutely needs to go (And for the record....if we were in the States she would have been there 2 wks ago). The hospital will do way more damage then her staying here and she's only going if she needs: IV fluids, oxygen, or IV medications, otherwise, we're not chancing it as she's just to fragile!
-Cleita PRAISE THE LORD took a turn for the better at noon. This morning she looked like she was on the iffy line of going to the hospital and was still laying in the floor barely moving (as she had been for 3 days). I left and came back at noon and she was "grazing" all over the place, crawling and climbing and begging for water. This evening we couldn't keep her still and she was laughing and smiling and refusing to go to sleep cause she wanted to play. Her last dose of antimalarials was just a few minutes ago, but she'll remain on antibiotics for the next 6 days for her chest infection.
-Alberto is pretty unchanged. Happier and playing more, but still have respiratory problems. At least he only needed one real nebulizer tonight and 2 others simple ones (with just saline) to help liquify his snot. I'll be checking on him and Fernanda again at 10pm to see if they need more intervention before I head off to dream land. Pray he continues needing less and less help and NO nebulizers!
-Naftal surgery was cancelled for Monday as they are too worried about his heart. So they are going to do an echocardiagram to see what's really wrong with it....only took 2 wks to get them to this point. Though they still have not drained the fluid off his belly or given him blood and he's belly's getting bigger and it's harder and harder for him to breathe. On one hand, I'm thrilled at the fact that he's not going to surgery till the fix the anemia and all the fluid in his belly, but on the other hand, they aren't doing anything about it and the tumor need's to be removed and chemo started. It's a catch 22. Please pray for this little boy."
Just keep praying! Please and thank you!
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