That poor precious baby boy. Val I lite a candle for your grandson and I pray he will recover from this infection. I can't even imagine what you and your
daughter and SIL must be going through. Prayer's coming for all of you to stay strong and think positive. Mikey be strong little guy we're all praying for a complete recovery.

Hugs,

Dear Lord please give this sweet baby strength. Prayin for your family.

What a beautiful baby! Thanks for the updates....again, many prayers and strength being sent your way. Come home baby Mikey!

Just in case everyone would like to see something special
 

Hi there,
This is something my daughter made up about Baby Mikey. This is a montarge forgive me if I spelt that wrong. I am a little tired here. Besides taken care of Babybear(the paralyzed pup) and worrying about Mikey I am working 7 days a week right now for the next month and have been doing this for two weeks now. So I hope I am getting everything right that I am posting.
My daughter made this up this past week and I thought all might enjoy watching this little slide show of Mikey. Please if need be grab a tissue. This is how she sent it to me. for me to grab a tissue. Please enjoy.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site...m_medium=email

Val, he is so precious, and you can tell he's a fighter :) Thanks for sharing those pictures and video with us.

Thank you so much for the update and the montage from your daughter. What a wonderful gift from God Mikey is! I will light another candle now and will be praying for him every single day. God bless you all.

He's a beautiful baby and so blessed. Your daughter and son-in-law love him so much. I'm praying hard for that special little one and the family.

He's in my prayers that he pulls through.

Lit another candle for Mikey and his family.....May the lord look after you.... :hands: :hands:

No Updates
 

Hi there everyone,
I just wanted you all to know I have gotten no updates since the one I posted last night. I have to go to work in about 20 minutes so if there are any updates they will have to wait until after 3 for me to let you all know. As soon as I open my mail when I get home I will update. Have a great day.
Thank you all again for praying and lighting candles for Mikey. It means the world to me. I am glad i am a part of a great community(family) of furmom's and furdad's.

I am so sorry to hear about little Mikey. I will keep him in my prayers.

I will keep Mikey, in my prayers and carry him close to my heart along with your entire family. He is so very precious. I will also be praying for the doctors and nursing who are treating him and I will especially ask the Great Healer to cradle little Mikey in His Healing Arms.

Hugs to you all :ghug:

Thank you for sharing this very special little boy and this very special video. I needed kleenexes -- a bunch of them :) Hugs and prayers to this beautiful family!

What a beautiful montage!

So sorry that this is such a struggle when it should be such a very happy time. Thoughts and prayers in abundance for you and your family.

...Just seeing this...Mikey sure is entering this new world w/ so many difficulties...thoughts & prayers for the entire family to pull through this....may they hear encouraging words today.... :hands:

What a beautiful little boy Mikey is. I have 100% faith that Mikey is going to beat this meningitis or whatever is keeping him down and he is going to go on and be a big healthy boy with no signs that this ever happened to him. I am keeping the faith and saying a prayer. Get well Mikey, we are all pulling for you.

Val I will certainly be Praying for Mickey and his family. What an adorable little angel you have there and a beautiful slideshow.

Prayers coming your way
 

I lit a candle for your grandson. My thoughts and prayers are with your grandson and your family.

Quick Update
 

I do not have much time, but I wanted to give you all a quick update like I promised. I have to run and do Babybear's therapies(water therapy, physical therapy and massage therapy). I am going to post my daughters update that she sent to me. I hope this explains some things.
Here it is::: hey everyone. sorry i didnt update you all last night. im extremely exhausted and just wanted to stay with my baby. he did well throughout the night. they are planning on slowly taking him off the respirator. they will keep the tube in and try a cpac to see if he will breathe by himself. if he doesnt, the tube will be there just in case and they can continue him on the repirator. but he is becoming a little more alert each day. they tried more iv's today and he was actually kicking the nurses hand away when she tried sticking him. this is a BIG leap from friday, when he was just laying there, doing nothing the entire time they were sticking him (which was close to 15-20 times). his blood culture has not come back yet and we are still waiting on that. he is having his EEG done right now. we will find out results a little later from that as well.
i did get a HUGE slap in the face though. i found out today that his white blood count from his spinal fluid was a couple thousand (which is SEVERALY high). so they said they will be needing to medicate him for 10-21 days. all of which he will be here for. i knew he would be here a while, it just finally hit me though when they said the amount of days. again, i will not be leaving him. and i will continue to update.
but i must get back to my baby. so i will update you all tonight when we have results from everything. thank you
becca
I will update again soon. And they you all for all the prayers and liting the candles again. I guess I will be holding the ceremony longer than I was hoping. But I keep the candles going until he comes home. Thank you all again.

Sounds like there is a little fighter there and he wants to get better so that will help him. I would kick the nurses too if they kept stabbing me with needles. Like I said before, he will get better I just know it.

OMG I'm in tears! He's such a precious, precious beautiful little boy. God bless him and his family during this difficult time.

I have been reading keeping up with your story, and it just breaks my heart to see the pictures and read the updates.


I will keep your family in my prayers. May GOD keep this sweet one in his hands and touch his little body.

Bless you and yoru family! I lit a candle for Mikey, you will all be in my prayers.
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Here is the latest update
 

Hi everyone,
Here is the latest update that my daugher sent me. I can not say it any better than her so I will just paste her post here. Thank you all very much for think, praying and liting candles. I will say this always.
hey everyone. i just wanted to let you know he tried the cpap again and didnt breathe. so he is still on the respitator. they will try again tomorrow. they said its probably cause he is still too sick to be able to breathe by himself still. other then that, the day has been pretty uneventful (which is good in the PICU). we still havent heard results about the EEG. however, i was able to see pics of his cat scan and saw the fluid build up the doctors in rochester were concerned about. the doctor explained that it is considered cystic hygroma because there is fluid build up around his brain now. there are no cyst, but the fluid obviously is not suppose to be there. they are expecting it to go away on its own, but will keep a watchful eye on it. mike was able to come up for a bit today, but is working tomorrow (which is a good thing!), and his car started to over heat again. so it may be a few days before he can make it up here again. its hard when the family is scattered everywhere. talk to you all later
becca

Continuing prayers for baby Mikey. That Montage was so touching. Your daughter is a very special person.

What a precious baby boy and bless his sweet little heart. I lit a candle for Mikey and have prayed and will continue to do so...for Mikey to be healed and strength for his family. He is so darling. I'm so sorry he's having such a struggle. *HUG*

I just seen this thread. My heart goes out to you and your family. I can't imagine what you are going through. Babies are so precious. I will light a candle too and be praying like crazy. May God Bless little Mikey!

Just checking in to see how baby Mikey is doing this morning. I hope they get him to start breathing on his own today. Get better soon Mikey.

Any news??