Wow. Today has been a whirlwind of emotion. Josh and I truly appreciate all the prayers from everyone and all the encouraging scripture that you have left us to read. We got 311 emails today, tons of text and lots of tweets. I thought it was best to update everyone on here what is going on with our daughter Chloé.

Wednesday is when Chloé started acting a little weird but I just thought she was possibly going through a growth spurt. She was abnormally fussy. Thursday night she began to eat less at each feeding then after Church she started screaming uncontrollably like she was in horrible pain. Josh and I went home to take her temperature. It was 100.9 so we called our Doctor and the local emergency room on what we should do. They instructed is to give her Tylenol wait an hour then if it her fever was still there to go straight to the emergency room. An hour came and went and when I took her temperature a second time it read 102.1.

We immediately took her to the emergency room. The next few hours were the worst moments of my life. I think I was crying just as hard as Chloé. Seeing your precious baby being pricked with needles and strapped up to monitors is scary. After repeated times of trying the nurses where unsuccessful in getting an IV started in her little veins. When the doctor came in he looked her over, found her ear was a little red but said he knew there was something more because babies just don’t act like she was acting over a sore ear. He instructed us to do a Spinal Tap to test Chloé for Spinel Meningitis. Our hearts broke. We didn’t want to do it because we couldn’t even imagine her having something like that. He told us we couldn’t wait. We had to do it or her life could be at risk. We decided to do it and an hour later the Doctor came in and confirmed they found bacterial Meningitis.

They were not happy about their findings and wanted to get her to the Pensacola PICU asap because of her age. So they rushed her there. Josh went with Chloé and I had to drive. The longest hour and a half of my life not sure what it all meant and what the outcome would be.

When I got to the hospital. Josh and Chloé were already admitted. They had to put an IV in her head. She was still very fussy after all she had already been through. The Doctors came in and confirmed they found Bacterial Meningitis on her slides. Once she got in to PICU the gave her antibiotics to fight the Meningitis. Chloé was put in to Isolation. We had so wear mask, gloves, and gowns to be able to see her.

After all this happened, we prayed, had you all pray, and constantly read scripture over her believing for a miracle to save our baby girl. A few long hours of being in Isolation the doctors came in and said that they checked the slides again that had once shown the bacterial infection and there was no bacterial infection to be found. They were not sure what happened. This was so exciting to hear. What the did find in her culture was the viral strain of Spinal Meningitis but that is a much better diagnosis than having bacterial. The doctors were more pleased with that finding. When we first checked in they said 14 days in the hospital at least, but now they are telling us as soon as her fever is gone for 24 hours we can go home and recover there.

We are believing she will recover wholly from this and are so thankful for all your prayers. We love you!

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