Reinstating E-mail Updates

I hope everyone had a good holiday season; our family was very blessed that we were able to be home with Samuel. We went down to our Grandparent's house and enjoyed an afternoon meal with them.

When I took over the updates my Dad sent out an E-mail saying that he was going to discontinue sending out Samuel’s e-mail updates because I did not have e-mail access and it would make things simpler. That is no longer the case. I now have an E-mail account and wanted to give everyone the opportunity to be placed back on that E-mail list.

Many people have told me that they miss having the E-mails sent directly to them. Many people have said that they miss some of the prayer requests sent out because they don’t know when I have sent out an update. If I could e-mail them then they would get the update as soon as I have one done. I would just reinstate the old list, but my Dad’s computer started acting up shortly after I took over the updates and he lost the list.

So, anyone who would like to be sent e-mail updates can e-mail me their address at kaitlyn@contractcallers.com. Please don’t feel like you will be adding more work to my plate, all I have to do is add your E-mail to my distribution list so that when I hit send the E-mail will travel to you along with the few people who have still remained on his list. It takes absolutely no more effort for me to send you an e-mail than it does for the people I’m already sending to.

However, everyone may want to check the blog every month or so. I’m going to be adding a third DVD of Samuel before long. I’m also going to try to add some pictures every now and again. Thank you guys for all of your prayers.

Kaitlyn

27th Update

It has been a few weeks since my last update. Shortly after I wrote the last update Samuel came down sick and had to be put on antibiotics, steroids, a Bronchodialator, and nebulizing treatments. Samuel was very sick this round and it lasted about two weeks. During his illness he developed a wheeze in his lungs. The concern that this brings up is that when babies develop a wheeze there is a tendency for it to reoccur. He has recovered fairly well this time, and his 2 storming episodes were somewhat minor in comparisons to his previous ones, though they were much closer together than is typical. As you may have guessed, Samuel was unable to attend the family christmas part due to being sick and not able to travel.

Aside from being sick Samuel has continued to do well and has not had any major upheaval in his life or body. He is continuing to grow, in weight more than height. Though Samuel’s length is still in the tenth percentile, he has maintained this growth rate instead of continuing to decline. He now is 19 pounds 11 oz and wearing size five diapers, his two year old sister Elianna is still in size threes.

Samuel has a new speech therapist that he responded well for on her first day last week. He seemed very focused and tried to move his eyes and follow the lights she was showing him. We hope that he continues to do well with her and that he will strengthen his eyes which we believe are very hard for him to move and follow people with.

We continue to ask prayers for Samuel’s brain development and healing. In addition we would like to ask prayers for Samuel’s sister Elianna who has recently undergone her eye surgery and is in pain and discomfort. The surgery went as well as it could, and now we must just wait and see what happens.

May God Bless,

Kaitlyn

26th Update

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Samuel has just turned 6 months old and weighs 19 pounds 4oz., 25 ½ inches long. This week has been a pretty uneventful week for Samuel which has allowed him to have some down time that he needs to get more often than he does. Things have been going well and now we are just hoping that Samuel is not coming down sick.

On December the 12^th our family will be heading down for our family reunion on my Grandmother’s side. This is going to be a long day for Samuel, and is a two and a half hour drive, but we are confident that he will do well for this one day. We would covet your prayers on his behalf that day.

I have had several people ask me about how Samuel has done on the protein supplement we were going to add to his milk. I must have failed to let everyone know that the Doctors had decided against adding a protein supplement to his breast milk. Were we to add it this would throw off his digestive enzymes and he could end up with constipation or diarrhea. No one thinks it would be beneficial to add this difficulty to Samuel’s other struggles.

May the Lord bless you all as you go through your week and thank you for your messages of encouragement and support sent to our family. They are a tremendous blessing to us.

In Christ,

Kaitlyn