A Late Night Update

To those that have loyalty clicked over to check in on us, I greatly apologize for not writing sooner. I see my view count on the blog is at the highest it has ever been. Don't think for one moment that I take it for granted that we have so many that care deeply for our little girl and we can seek your prayers through our updates! You all are such a blessing to us. With heartfelt emotion, we thank you!

I feel as though the wind has been taken right out of me and finding the ability and strength to type is just not something I have right now. It's just been an incredibly long, scary day.

Mike has been posting quick little updates on facebook, bless his heart.

And bless all your hearts for covering us in so many prayers! God is with us. I can feel it. He's been our dwelling place.

I'm not sure who all has gotten the texts or facebook updates so I'll go through a quick bullet point summary of the day. I apologize if it's not a smooth read but it's about all the thinking ability I have right now.

• In the middle of the night Cayman woke up vomiting.
• In the early morning we noticed fluid accumulating around her shunt.
• We packed our bags and headed out the door for Ann Arbor, suspicious of this being a shunt failure.
• We got only a 1/4 mile outside of our little town and Cayman was struggling to breath.
• I urged Mike to turn around and head to the local hospital instead.
• Just as we turned into the hospital's drive Cayman lost consciousness and turned blue from head to toe.
• Mike ran, I mean ran, moved like I have never seen him move before, carrying his precious little girl's lifeless body through the E.R.'s doors.
• She had no pulse and was not breathing.
• For what seemed like an eternity but in reality was "only" 45 seconds, they performed CPR until Cayman's heart began to beat again. ("Thank You Jesus!")
• Cayman was life flighted to U of M hospital.
  
• She was stable but very critical.
  
• She was taken to the operating room where they externalized her shunt.
  
• She'll stay like this til Monday and then we'll have a meeting with all the doctors involved to decide the best placement for the distal end of her shunt. We need many prayers about this as the answers are not very clear. There are so many risks.
• Right now Cayman is in the PICU. She's stable but not out of the woods yet. She is breathing on her own. She's no longer sedated but sleeping continuously.
  
• It won't be until she regains some strength and rest will we know if any of this has caused further damage to her brain.
  
• For one brief moment we saw our little Cayman reappear when she attempted to sign "sleepy" which is what we call "night night". But other than that she remains lethargic and her little perky personality has disappeared.
  
• God is watching over her, I know because He gave me a clear sign of that today. And when I am running off of more than just 1 a.m. brain power I will sit down and tell you all just about how amazing God has been to us today.

Please keep the prayers coming!

**On a side note, I turned on the time stamp at the bottom of the posts. Now you'll be able to see what time my updates come through in the day. Hopefully that will make for more clear communication.

And thank you all again, seriously, thank you for the prayers! I feel as though we are wrapped in grace. It might partially be shock but mostly I count it due to your prayers. We serve a God who's love endures forever.

Don't think for one moment that it seems gloomy for us to be sleeping in the PICU tonight. Trust me, it's not especially when I consider what could have been. I feel much contentment and count myself lucky to be right where we are. It could have been so much worse. So. Much. Worse.