BABY ROBERT!

A lot has gone on in the Week and a half that Baby Robert Elam has been alive. I appreciate all the prayers of my *very small* group of blog followers has given him! Here is what is going on most recently.

They tested Robert off the ecmo machine and he did well so they determined he was stable enough for surgery. Robert was originally diagnosed with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia which causes the internal organs to crowd his lungs so that they don't develop properly. When they opened him up they found that he had no diaphram at all so they built him one! (modern medicine is amazing) He came through surgery well, but his lungs began to bleed which filled his chest with blood and caused a clot in his drainage tube. They have taken him to surgery to remove the clot and add new tubes for him. They have gotten him out of surgery and off the ecmo machine, but he is being supported by other machines at this point too. The doctors have given him a 30% chance of survival at this point.

The many prayers for Robert have helped him SO much thus far and now he needs the prayers more than ever to overcome the odds and survive! Thank you so much to everyone and I still have prayer ribbons left if any one wants them!