Kelsey needs your prayers

Kelsey is getting bigger and bigger and not just in her belly. Her little face (and body) is so puffy it doesn't even look like my sweet baby girl any more. The doctors aren't sure what's causing this or how to fix it. Right now they are still hoping by not putting the drain back, her body will find the balance for dealing with this fluid retention on its own. Again I'm learning so much about how the body functions. As best as I can explain it, your blood vessels are suppose to absorb this fluid and then you pee it out. But, Kelsey is doing the opposite. Her blood vessels are leaking fluid into her body and so it's swelling up. Why is Kelsey doing the opposite???? They aren't really sure but think it's just a lot of little things working together to create this big problem. Little things like a sick liver, an inflammatory state from open heart surgery, poor nutrition from diuretics, damaged cells including her blood vessel, abnormal thyroid and several others I can't remember. Individually they wouldn't cause this much trouble but together they are causing Kelsey a lot of problems with this fluid balance. They still haven't put another drain in because that would only perpetuate the problem. They are holding off hoping this fluid balance will fix itself. If the balance of fluid pressure outside her blood vessels is greater, then hopefully she will start reabsorbing the fluid into her blood vessels and then to the kidneys to be peed out like it should.

Please pray this will work and Kelsey can start doing this on her own!!!! As long as her breathing is fine and her kidneys are fuctioning they will try and wait for Kelsey to balance this out. It just brakes my heart to see her like this. I thought she looked bad yesterday but today it's even worst. I was reminded of a verse I clung to several months ago today in a birthday card from my sweet friend Sue. Romans 15:13 "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Right now I have to put my hope in God and trust Him to heal my baby girl. Sometimes it easier to say than to do. I just have to getting reading it over and over.

Thanks for your prayers!!!

Patti