April 24th - Day 40

Hello all!

It has been a crazy roller coaster ride with Omari the last few weeks. Last week my wife and I noticed that Omari was not acting like himself. So we brought it to the attention of the Doctors and nurses, and they said it was nothing. Then last week I recieved a phone call from work saying that Omari stopped breathing several times. The nurse taking care of him noticed his faced was pail, and according to the monitors his breathing was really shallow. Well, I lefted work and my wife and I immediately went up there. The morning nurse argued and said that he was fine and that he always looked and acted like that. We argured continously with the doctor. The doctor then agreed to take some blood, urine, and spinal tap samples. Meanwhile give him a broad mixture of antibiotics. The bad thing was that the entire time they was getting samples, he was stuck with a needle about 15-20 times unsuccessfully. He simply was not crying, moving, or showed any life what so ever.

But later the next day or so, we began to notice some progress. BUT, the doctors said that Omari had Ecoli, then they changed it and said it was worse.... A staph infection. So he is currently being treated as we speak, and they will know if its gone in the next few days. They found the infection in his blood, and urine. They spinal tap came back negitive, they said the infection could be there as well, but just hasnt flourished enough. But as of now, he seems to be 100% better, and is more vibrant than ever. He is offically 32 weeks old, and is a WHOPPING 3.8lbs!