To ICU and back

First off, I'm so sorry for the lack of updates. Secondly, I'm currently writing this on my phone and for some reason it won't let me upload photos but once I can get to a computer I'll add photos.

The last week has been somewhat of a blur. As noted in the last blog Reece got an infection. Well, that infection (bacterial blood infection), led to another infection (C-Diff) which led us to the ICU and another virus (Rhino Virus). And well,  you can see how blogging would be on the bottom of this totem pole.

Note to everyone out there, when you think you're life is rough please visit the pediatric ICU, boy will you feel dumb for ever complaining about your life.

I'm not going to re-live everything, but just know in the past week Reece has had as high as a 104.2 fever, heart rate as high as 180, breathing so fast to the point that doctors said the hardest part about this is that they know his body can't go on much longer with this fast of breathing (what does that mean?!? Is he going to just stop), Reece so lifeless that the word tractor doesn't even perk up his ears, and last but least having to go through c-diff (I'll spare you the details go ahead and google it but don't say I didn't warn you).

Rodney and I have literally been going through hell on earth. We heard that he would be going to the ICU last Friday at aroun 10:30. When I heard ICU (hello, it has the word critical in it) I just started balling and talking to Reece. I kept telling him in his ear all the way down to the ICU, "keep fighting Reece, you are so strong and tough and hard headed, you have to just keep going. No matter what, never give up." His little chest was going up and down and up and down so fast I didn't know what to do. I told him, "just like dory, you have to just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." The days following were so hard on us, wondering what going to happen, staring at monitors with so many numbers, seeing our little boy on oxygen.

With all that being said, after being in the ICU for 6 days, I am happy to say Reece is as strong as ever and we are back in the 9b unit of the hospital.

Not only that, since being back all of his counts are going up and get this, THEY ARE SAYING WE CAN EVEN FLY HOME (yes our real home - tejas!) THIS WEEK!!!!!!

Again, I'm so sorry for going incognito for the past week, but hopefully this helps explain why. We have found out that on average, kids going through chemo for AML get an average of three infections (thanks Taylor for always keeping us informed on the latest research). So we know this was our first scare, but it could happen again in the future. So please all you prayer and good though warriors keep them coming for we know this is a marathon and not just a fast sprint.

Thanks again for all the encouragement and support. We love you all.