Jayne, I'm praying for you guys. Please give Nicholas tender get well smooches. You & Mark hang in there too. Lots of love! Blessings, Chris (mama to Mari) Wright <jm.wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Well, Nicholas decided he didn't want to go to New York. The day before we were to leave for the conference, Nicholas started throwing up bile. So we took him to the emergency room and the next day he had surgery. He had a complete bowel obstruction. The surgeon had to cut into his bowel because it was kinked and relieve the pressure before he could place it back where it belonged. Then he found a huge abdominal hernia (we've been down this road before!). That boy just won't stay together. He's been in ICU since Sunday. He's on a ventilator and now they are suspecting pneumonia. He got a temp on Wed. and they took cultures of his urine, blood, and lung and the only one that came back positive was the lung. He's already on 3 antibiotics, so they will see which bacteria it is before giving him another one. They're giving him breathing treatments and had to hydrate him. One thing leads to another. As of right now, they are easing up on the sedation and he is starti ng to open his eyes. Hopefully, by Sat. or Sun. he will be transferred to the intermediate floor. They are trying to wean him off the ventilator today. I'm getting updates from the Cook Family on how the conference is going. We're just glad Nick didn't get sick on the way to the conference. Jayne - mom to Nicholas - T-13 - 10 years old Hudson IL "Land of the Free - Because of the Brave" Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line Chris (mama to Mari, full T18, dob 8/24/01) Tipp City, OH 45371 http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/misstippcity/my_photos http://home.earthlink.net/~loganfamily/id1.html http://www.benotafraid.net/story.asp?id=38 Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line