Update on Baby Zoey

For those who are praying for Steph & Greg Baker's 3 month old baby Zoey, here is the update they sent me:
for those of you who are unaware, Zoey had major abdominal surgery on Sept 5th. In order to get to the area the surgeons had to break her pelvis and she is now in traction.

Below is a photo of Zoey and her big brother (twin) Zak. I think this is about 2 months ago.

"Hi Everyone,
Here is the update on Zoey...

She was in surgery for about 7 hours yesterday and the surgeons were all pretty happy with how things proceeded. They broke both sides of her pelvis and moved the bones to properly close in the front and then repaired her bladder and reconstructed her lower abdomen that didn't form normally at birth. She was moved to the ICU after the surgery and we got to see her briefly last night. She was in quite a bit of pain, even with all the morphine that she was getting, so that was pretty difficult to watch. Overnight they decided to up the dosage and when we saw her this morning she looked more comfortable. Unfortunately one of the side effects to giving babies large doses of morphine is that they stop breathing, so she is intubated and has a ventilator breathing for her. She has a catheter in both kidneys and another in her bladder and a drain in her abdomen. She also has an IV in her arm, another in her head (another shaved patch!!) and yet another directly into her jugular, since they had run out of places to poke and still needed to give her more stuff. Both her legs are sticking straight up in order to get the pelvis to heal correctly and her whole body is bruised and swollen from the surgery. She is also on a feeding tube down her throat and they started to give her tiny amounts of milk this afternoon. Hopefully she is able to tolerate it and they can slowly up the amounts over the next few days.

She was scheduled to be in the ICU for only a day, but it looks like it will be longer as they won't send her upstairs to a ward until she can breath on her own. She will probably be in the hospital for about 6 weeks.

All in all, it was a long, difficult day and it will be a long, difficult recover, but as I always say, no matter how bad it gets, you don't have to look around very far at Children's Hospital to see kids that have it even worse, and that helps keep things in perspective.

Thanks for all your prayers and good wishes.

greg."

That's the update. Please continue praying for Zoey and her family (mom, dad, 2 year old sister Eliana and her twin brother, Zak)

Thanks for reading.