Things Don't Always Go as Planned

Teri has been planning for weeks for our Celebrating the Family get together with Cole's Birth and Adopted families and friends. She found some very cute party supplies with a Zoo theme and has been putting them together for days. She spent most of Saturday morning popping up a bunch of popcorn for the party and we bought two 6 foot sandwiches for the party. Also we know that Tami had put a lot of energy into planning for this event and had a lot of family and friends that have loved hearing about Cole's adventures and so much wanted to see him. All was going well until . . .

About 10am Saturday Cole threw up a few times within about 30 min. That in itself is not too concerning as he does have reflux that occasionally results in throwing up. However, he was quite fussy afterward and was having a hard time being settled. We went to the park and began setting up and he was still fussing. Family and friends began showing up and people held and soothed him and he seemed to be calming down, but still was not his happy self. We had taken his temperature about 11:30 and it seemed to be normal. We took it again about 1:30 and found that he had a temp of 1o2.2. We felt so bad about needing to leave in the middle of the party, but the vomiting and temperature are both signs of a shunt infection. We went up to Primary's ER and the took a sample of his spinal fluid and began trying to get his temperature down. They found infection in his spinal fluid which means 3 things will happen over the next 2 weeks. They externalized his shunt Sunday Morning and it will stay that way for weeks. They are fighting the infection with some pretty heavy duty antibiotics. And when his fluid clears up they will reinternalize his shunt and we will go home pretty soon after that. We actually had a trip planned to Bear Lake for that week - we will be trying to reschedule that tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support. We love you all.