Thursday, 2/24

It has been so hard the past several days knowing that I have to come up here and deliver sad updates to all of Dinky's friends and family. We so want to get back to last week where our main focus was how chubby our little boy was getting. Unfortunately the news today isn't good either. In fact today was the hardest for me and Martin, but especially for our little hero. While we were en route to the hospital the head nurse called to make sure we were coming. When we got there we were led past Dinky's room where there had to be 15 people gathered around his bed and everything that could beep or alarm was doing just that. I have never been so scared. The "working diagnosis", as nothing is definitive, is that Dinky's infection (probably sepsis but not verified) was just overtaking his little body. They were having a very hard time getting him stable from a respiratory standpoint. Finally, after hours, he seemed to stablize somewhat. The doctor had warned us that with sepsis things definitely get worse before they get better, we hope that today was our "worse" and that tomorrow will be our "better". Dinky is very sedated so is hopefully not aware of everything that happened today. It's so hard to see him like this. I long to see those little beady eyes and the wrinkles in that little forehead. Thank you again, and we cannot thank you enough, for all of your support.