It happened ....

We just increased the feeding levels to 80ml per hour. This means Chris can now be free of his backpack and Joey Pump for about 8 hours a day now. This increase means that he will probably cut back on his prednisone and he will start to gain more weight and GROW some.

Dr Gates said that he will be back on the 21st to evaluate Chris to see IF the by-pass surgery is necessary. The doctor feels that it is most likely that he will need it BUT, we know THE DOCTOR and creator of our bodies. HE has all the spare parts we need and we believe that Chris will NOT need the surgery right away.

Please pray with us that Chris's healing is in process and he will healed of this CRAZY situation.

Oh yeah, one more thing. The 4 little "tabs" holding the stomach and abdominal walls together finally fell off. This is really cool because his Mic-Key button can move more freely now and it is easier to clean so the chance of infection is lower... God is so GOOD!

Mic-Key Button

Keep your prayers coming and keep in touch with your comments!

Chris and Dad and Mic-key

Coming Home Today - It's Official !!

Well, it's been a long journey so far and Chris will be coming home today!!!

Christopher has been looking forward to going to NO LIMITS at the Rock Church were he has been held up in prayer around the world. WOW! I personally have been contacted by people that do not even personally know us that have spoken Christophers' in their daily and routine petitions.

The belly laugh continues and his stomach is getting stronger. Kind-of-like being SHOT with a bullet... he actually has a hole in his abdominal wall and plugged with a piece of silicone tubing. Ouch! But... he is a tough young man and taking it all in stride.

We will be adding to this journal as soon as Christopher is at home and doing this for himself.
He is anxious to play football in a couple of weeks if he can. He certainly has come a long way.

God bless

Chris

Out of Surgery and the Mic-Key Button

My son Christopher is my hero. He is a trooper and is braver than I ever will be.

He has endured more in the past few months than most kids his age go through in their lifetime. We believe that GOD has a purpose in all of this and Christopher will be a mighty instrument in God's future plans.

His journey this time (the fourth time in the hospital since Jan 2, 09) was an eventful one starting again with a fever of 103.9 on February 19th. His head and back were throbbing and he was delirious with the pain. We could not offer him any tylenol for his fever since the doctor wanted to find the source of the infection. We suspected the PICC line that it was in his left arm artery connected to his heart and the culture tests proved this to be the source of STAFF infection. He was immediately set up with a IV and heavy doses of Antibiotics. The staff infection was destroyed...

Christopher then was told to "Ride it out" for the weekend until the doctors came up with a plan to insert a "MICKEY BUTTON". This is a WONDERFUL instrument for this ailment. His surgery went flawless on Tuesday Morning and the doctors said that the "Hand of God was with him".

Check out the MICKEY Button here.

Interactive FLASH VIDEO <---- This is COOL!


Since then, Christopher is coping with the pain, but is sure glad that he will be going home soon. There is a cute story about Christopher and his new "friend" Mickey! We'll tell you about that later

Please continue to pray for us.

We will keep you posted.