Little Chase

This is a picture of my little nephew Chase, my sister Rashelle's littlest. He is about 3 months old and has been having a pretty rough time. Rashelle is a trained Respiratory Therapist and has been pretty concerned about his breathing since he was born. She has been taking him in regularly to try and find out what is going on and finally after a very severe asthma attack last week she drove him 4 hours down to Phoenix Children's Hospital to their emergency room. They admitted him and he is still there. He has undergone many, many test and has had good results from all of the scary and horrible scenarios. Currently, they know for sure that one of his lungs seems to have a development problem and it also has a very small entry hole that supplies air. For some reason he is also having large amounts of phlegm that keeps blocking this very small hole that allows air into the that lung. -So thus the oxygen tubes.

When I talked to Rashelle yesterday they were trying to ween him off of the oxygen but she was not real hopeful because in one of the tests they found pneumonia bacteria and so have started treating him for pneumonia and told her that they will probably have stay in the hospital for another 7-10 days. We are all praying that that will not have to happen. As well as that the doctors will be able to find out why he is having such trouble and how to fix it so he can go home.

Thank goodness for a wonderful family. From what I understand Claryce and her family have mostly been taking care of the three big kids that go to school and the little 4 year old Kyson is down in the Valley. At first he was in St. Johns but he was just having too hard of a time so he came down and stayed with Travis's brother and went and back and forth to the hospital to see Rashelle. Now my mom and dad have come and are taking him out to Maricopa with them and will bring him in to see Rashelle. That just started yesterday so I hope it works out well.