Prayers for Emma

Emma could really use prayers today. For the past couple days Emma off & on has periodic breathing,lots of bradys, desats & lots of spitting. Well yesterday her skin would also not look good when this would happen. Today her nurse said this is still happening & she is also not acting like herself. So the doctors repeated the same blood work that they did yesterday. Dr.D said everything looks fine, but in preemies there are times when they have an infection, but it will not show up in their blood work until it has been around for awhile. They also did an X-ray of her stomach and lungs and everything looks fine there, no signs of infection. He thinks that she has a blood infection. They took blood for cultures, but those results take time. He thinks she got the infection through her PICC line. He said that often if this is the case the PICC line will not draw blood & this is the case with Emma. They have started Emma on antibiotics and will continue to watch her & wait for her blood culture results to come back. Dr.D said Emma's pulse & blood pressure have also been elevated at times which can also be a sign of infection & can cause weight loss due to the increased metabolic demand. Dr.D said he feels like this was caught early since Emma has not needed any additional oxygen & is still doing well on the CPAP. For now they have stopped Emma's feedings & he said they will restart them when she goes for a while without spitting up. They will likely only start at about 1/2 the amount first and go up based on how she tolerates it. Please pray that Emma is on the right antibiotics and that they wipe out the infection quickly so she does not have the problems she has been having. Pray that God keep Emma from getting any more sick than what she is now. Pray that they are able to restart her feedings soon and that she tolerate things better so that her PICC line can come out so that this does not happen again.