Pray for Isaiah

We have a big day today...see the email below that I sent out to friends and family yesterday. If you have a second, please say a prayer for our little boy today...

Hey Everyone,

We just wanted to send out an email to update you about our little Isaiah.

We got home from the hospital on Friday and everything was going pretty well. Then on Saturday we got a call from a doctor on call that asked us to come back to the hospital to re-run some lab work that had come back irregular from Iowa City. This test was for PKU, which involves the way he metabolizes proteins. We just heard back from Iowa City and he did test positive again so we have to go to Iowa City tomorrow morning to see the specialists. From what we know right now, he will have to be on a very restrictive diet, probably for the rest of his life. He will have a special formula we will switch him to along with a certain ratio of breastmilk. We will know a lot more tomorrow about the severity of his condition and what changes we have to make.

On Sunday we got another call from a different doctor regarding Isaiah's thyroid. We had to go back to the hospital again to have more lab work done. We talked to another doctor from Iowa City about the results of this test today and we had to put him on thyroid medicine right away because his test came back so high. This should just be manageable by a pill and they will recheck him again soon to make sure we figure out the levels.

On top of all this, our little guy is a little jaundice, so a nurse is supposed to be coming by with a billy blanket to try to take care of this. Shane is also running back to the pharmacy to get medicine for a little bit of thrush (yeast infection in his mouth).

We've really had an eventful few days and to say the least thoughts and prayers are welcome. We've really been enjoying our little boy and will enjoy it even more when we know more of what is going on and don't have to spend so much time in the hospital.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.