Smiling!

Jill's fever last night of 103 degrees subsided just after midnight. The new antibiotics that she was put on last night appeared to have cleared up a mild staph infection in her blood. Her stomach also appears to be digesting saliva and other stomach juices for the first time since her surgery. So the plan is to starting feeding her tomorrow. If all goes well, she could be home as soon as Thursday!



Jill finally smiled for us today. We had really been missing her smiles as she is generally a happy child. Not seeing her smile for nearly a week was difficult.


Please pray that the feeding goes well. We hear that once a baby develops an aversion to eating, drinking from a bottle in Jill's case, pain can still be associated with the act of eating even after surgery has been performed to eliminate that pain. If all goes well, Jill could have the feeding tube removed in as little as two months. Some children, however, can be left on a feeding tube for years. We're praying that Jill will get all of the nutrition she needs from eating solids and drinking from the bottle without any supplemental tube feedings.