4th Update

It has been a couple of days since my last update. Mom arrived here at Cardinal Glennon on Saturday morning, so I have been busy tending to her needs. Everyone got to hold Samuel for the first time last night. I sent Mom home last night (Sun) for a couple of days to hopefully get better sleep and to spend time with the kids. She is recovering well.

On my last update I asked everyone to pray specifically for Samuel’s breathing. Two days ago, Samuel stopped breathing on his own. The doctors told me that they did not believe he would regain his own breathing. My last update I also said they did not believe in miracles or the power of prayer. At 6:30 this morning, I was holding his hand and talking to him, when his respiratory number on the monitor when up into the 70’s. This has happened a few times over the last two days, but it has just been water in the lines or bad sensor reading. They cleared the lines and the numbers went back up into the 70’s. They checked everything and it was Samuel breathing. The doctor then disconnected him from the machine and he was breathing at a rate in the 40’s. She then reconnected him.

Samuel Ian’s name was given to me for a reason “God hears our prayers and answers graciously.” This is an answer to our prayers and I ask that you continue with us in this. Samuel is far from breathing without the machine, but he is farther from where the doctors said he was; which shows that God is in control, not the doctors. Please pray for continued improvement in his breathing…

I have a consult with his new doctor today and will try to send another update later today.

Yancy