Alot has happened since the last post...Gracie is now eating cereal and loving it. She weighs 12 lbs and is 22 inches long. On Friday the 9th, she started a little cough. Nothing bad and so we didn't think much about it. Gracie and I went to Gatlenburg with my family for the weekend. As the weekend went on she started to cough a little more. She never ran a temperature, just coughing. We came home on Monday the 12th and I decided to take her to the doctor just to let him check her out. They swabbed her for the flu and RSV and both were negative however he did not like the sound of her right lung and her oxygen saturation (level of oxygen in the blood) was low. He said that we should take her to Vanderbilt to get an x-ray just to check the lung out. We got to Vanderbilt around 6:30, by 7:00 they had an x-ray and said that it was pnuemonia and they were admitting us. They started her on antibiotics and breathing treatments. On Tuesday the doctor told us that it would probably be her worst day since it was day 5 of the symptoms, boy was he right! Her breathing got extremly worse and they considered moving us to ICU so they could do more to help her breath. Each day after that she got a little better. Her immune system is very weak and will take longer to recover once she gets sick and this is why we are going to have to be very careful this winter. Each little cold or virus and we are going to be a Vanderbilt with a very sick baby girl. Please pray for us to have an sick-free winter.
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