A favor, please?

My friend Katie who suddenly lost her mother last week is heading to the hospital this morning with her son. Jake is 8 years old and he weighs roughly the same as KayTar. He gets his feedings through a j-tube, but it hasn't been working well. He has lost 6 pounds in the last month. He needs surgery on his j-tube site, but because he is now nutritionally compromised, they cannot operate. They will be putting in a PICC line today at 1pm, to attempt to get him nutritionally stable and build him back up enough for the surgery he is in need of. Yesterday, his nurses at the care facility had to start him on oxygen because the whites of his eyes were going gray and his oxygen levels were falling between 63-83. Katie was in the hospital with Jake at this time last year, too, and it was so very difficult for all of them. I can't imagine having just lost my mother and having to face what lies ahead of them now. They know for sure he will not be out before Thanksgiving, but they don't know exactly how long it will be. Jakie has 5 siblings who just lost their grandmother and now have their brother heading to the hospital for an extended stay, please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers.

Katie is strong, but no one should have to bear the weight of all of this. If you would, please, leave her a few kind words today. When we were in the hospital, and all of you stopped by from jen's it was such an incredible comfort. In that moment, I felt much less alone. I wish that I could be there with Katie today, but since I cannot, I'd love it if we could all stand beside her in spirit. And please, send all the spare thoughts and prayers you can gather in her direction. She needs to be lifted up today, because the weight she is under is truly too much to bear. No one should lose a parent and wake up the next day in mortal fear for her child. It is just too much.

Katie's blog
Jake's CaringBridge


Katie and Jakie on Mother's Day.