Introduction

Our sons Charles George Fitzpatrick and Henry Michael Fitzpatrick were born prematurely on November 16, 2013 at a gestational age of 24 weeks and 1 day. Their "due date" was March 7th, 2014. We started this site on November 28th.

Both Aly and David will be posting to the site. While you will probably be able to tell who is writing by our writing styles, we will sign off on our entries with our initials so you will be sure of the author.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Henry is Very Sick, Charlie is Home

Today started with a call from the NICU telling us that Henry needed more oxygen. He has been on an increasing amount of support for over a week now. The diagnosis of pneumonia caused by him aspirating was not sitting well with us this morning and I decided to go in to the hospital and listen to rounds. 

The team were thinking the same. The antibiotics probably should be working by now so maybe it is a virus. Labs were taken and a full viral panel is being done. We are waiting to see what comes back. Tonight, the antibiotics were changed with the assumption that if it is bacteria, it is resistant to what he was on. 

In the meantime, he is critically ill and all we can do is try and support him. It is terrifying. 


Charlie is home. Everything went fine with his tests and he was released. As you can imagine, there was no party or ceremony. I drove him home, dropped him with my mum and headed back to the hospital. 

(D)

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  1. UnknownApril 23, 2014 at 10:49 PM

    Oh Henry Boy, little man, surrounding you with healing light strength and love. Sending you all strength. Tomorrow I have my monthly meeting with the angelic old ladies, they are good shepherd associates, we will be spending a lot of time on Henry xoxo

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  2. RaeApril 24, 2014 at 8:30 AM

    Know that there are so many people praying for Henry and you all right now. Holding him so close in thoughts & prayers right now.

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