April 26th- 27 Days Old

Well our sweet girl is doing better! By Easter Sunday they had taken her feeding tube out! Yesterday we had the EEG monitor off.... but bless her heart we still have a lot of glue from the 23 electrodes that were glued on her head. We are working on the glue but it is not being cooperating with us! They have her on a seizure medicine which she will be on for a while and they will do another EEG in about 2 months to compare to the one she had last week. So now she just has her external drain and her regular monitors. She is doing much better and seems more like herself the past two days however there is a large amount of blood that is draining with her cerebral spinal fluid. We really don't know why this is and our prayers right now are that this will start to clear up soon. Last Thursday was the first final negative culture so if the fluid will start to clear up, she could get a new internal shunt as soon as a week from Thursday. She has also been very grumpy today. We are not sure if it is because of pain in her head or her belly. She has been on a large amount of antibiotics for the past week so I am sure that is hard on such a small belly. Overall she is better today than she was a week ago... and that is a blessing. I see blessings daily. I ask for all of you special people who have kept Samantha in your prayers to pray for a little boy named Carter who is in the room next to us. He is 6 months old and the doctors are telling his family that he might only live to be 2 years old. I can't even image what I would do if I were being told that about Samantha but once again I know that miracles happen every day and doctors are left scratching their heads. God is still in the miracle business and God answers prayers everyday. I am asking anyone who will... please pray for this sweet child and his family. Hearing about situations like this I can't help but feel so blessed by the fact that Sam is doing as well as she is. Being here is very humbling and if you just open your eyes.... you can see blessings everywhere. Again.... We so love you and thanks for your prayers and support.