Update on Baby Zoey, Oct 2008 (2 parts)

Sept 3o (I haven't checked email until recently)
Hi everyone, Zoey is continuing to do well. She has just 1 catheter and a drain in her bladder left as attachments, and of course is still in traction. The plan is to remove a catheter tomorrow and likely take her out of traction on friday. She'll probably need some physio and monitoring and hopefully will be home 24-72 hours after that.Both Dr's and nurses have told me that Zoey is the favourite baby on the ward as she interacts and smiles with staff. She is usually in good spirits although sometimes in some discomfort from gas, particularly since she can'tbe burped. God has definitely answered our prayers for her to have angels of peace and comfort at her bedside. Hopefully the next email you receive from us will be of her homecoming :) Love, Stephanie & co.
ps. picture of her in traction on our album below http://picasaweb.google.com/gsebaker/ZachZoey


October 2

Hi everyone,Unfortunately yesterday when they tried to take out the catheter it twisted and when they pulled it snapped off inside. So now she will need another surgery under general anaesthesia to remove it. The surgeon said he's bookedup and will try to cancel someone else to get it done in the next week or two. She is still slated to come out of traction tomorrow (friday) and he thought perhaps she'd go home monday or wednesday and then we'd bring her back for the surgery again when there's an opening. We'll see. Please pray that the xray shows that the catheter is close to the skin andvery easy to remove and that zoey won't have any pain from that surgery.

Thanks for continuing to pray for little Zoey, her parents and her sibs.

Thanks for reading!