A very sick girl...

Emma is at Children's hospital in Oklahoma City. We have been here since Saturday. She has been admitted with a GI bleed, which is something very new for us. A lot to update on what has happened the last few days, will have to try to be as simple as possible.

We were admitted following a bloody diaper at home, she has had several since then. Over the last few days she has had 2 blood transfusions, an endoscopy and a colonoscopy, which are fancy names to say she has been looked at down her mouth and up her bottom. They found 5 ulcers in her stomach, which were not actively bleeding. They have medicated her to see if that helps, but today and yesterday she had bloody diapers again, so there is a chance some of the ulcers are in her intestines and they will have to go in and operate. As of now its all "wait and see if she has bloody stools some more" which is really frustrating to say the least. They did biopsies during the scopes but the results are not back yet, they don't expect them to show anything but they are done as a precaution

She had a central line placed yesterday because they are taking blood ever 6-8 hours and need to have good access. They tried to start a PICC line two times and could not. You can google those terms, if I just completely lost you. I am sorry I am just in hospital mode language right now.

We just want our girl well, if she could be home in time for Christmas that would also be great. No children under 12 can enter the hospital due to Swine Flu fears, so Ella and Derek have not seen their sis all week and I hate to think of them not being with her on Christmas, let alone how I will split my time between here and home.

I just found a wonderful room called the "Ronald McDonald Family room" here in the hospital where I have access to a computer so I will try to update as much as possible. I plan on daily updates, more if possible.

Our Church family has been great, with visits to see her the last 3 days and a group of ladies that will be bringing meals by to Daddy and the other 2 kiddos. Its nice to have them there for support, along with our family.

Immediate pray needs are 1. Make the bleeding stop 2. Let us get home for Christmas and 3. That her blood work and electrolites stay where they need to be so we can avoid more transfusions.

Will update as soon as we have some more answers.