Brief Sick Update

This is a very short update... I am temporarily home from the hospital. Karla was admitted yesterday to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh due to low blood oxygen and difficulty breathing. It has been a very trying experience for all of us. They admitted her with pneumonia with complications then changed it to asthma then back to pneumonia WITH asthma and then at 12:30 this morning they moved us to an isolation room telling us they think she has tuberculous. They then subjected poor little Karla to a whole battery of probing tests from 1 - 3am. Fortunately so far her TB test has not reacted, but they appear to plan on keeping her in the hospital through Wednedsday (48 hours from the TB test at 1am today). She has responded well to the breathing treatments. She hasn't been on oxygen since she left the ER and her blood oxygen level has remained in the good range since then. She's getting breathing treatments every 4 hours but it still very congested.

Please pray for Karla - that she doesn't have TB (we don't think she does), that her breathing will get fixed soon and that she won't be too distraught and angry over all the tests she's getting subjected to.