What a roller coaster...

Today Landon had to be put on Nitric Oxide on top of the Oscilator.  His body is still not oxygenating how it should.  He was on 100% oxygen on the conventional ventilator, now 100% on the oscilator and adding to that the Nitric Oxide.  He is still a puzzling case...the last urine culture showed the UTI is gone. (great news!)  The bad news is they think this infection could have spread into his bowels, his blood and possibly pneumonia.  He has sepsis.  He is being treated with a broad spectrum of antibiotics that should cover every kind of infection.  Now, the docs are not so worried about the infection (because of the range of antibiotics), but respiratory distress.  The new problem they are trying to figure out is whether or not he has Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ARDS (all the babies had Respiratory Distress Syndrome when they were born - this is a different kind).  This has been such a roller coaster of a week.  We are so incredibly proud of Landon - he is such a fighter!  He has been through so much and has scars and battle wounds.  We call them God's miracle marks. :)  When medicine has hit a dead end, God never fails.  We are praying for healing and comfort for Landon and comfort and peace for our family. 

The bittersweet news is Brennan's coming home today!  I'll write about that later - we're waiting for discharge right now.  It's just so hard mentally and emotionally to be so thrilled about bringing him home, when we know is brother is so sick.  Landon's in excellent care and so many are lifting him up.  God is the Great Physician and in that we put our trust!  We'll keep you updated on Landon - it's been hard to know what to update because things change so quickly.  We truly appreciate all your prayers and encouragement!