Eight Weeks Old

Joey is 8 weeks old today. He had a pretty decent day yesterday. No major issues, just a bunch of snot sucked out as usual. We had a meeting with the neurologist yesterday to get results of Joey's MRI and Joey has had a stroke in his spine. The doctors told us that in all their years of experience, they've never seen this. The most recent case study they can find is from 1988, so this doesn't happen very often. They are going to be sending off some blood for a study of Joey's clotting factors to see if he has some sort of blood clotting disorder that would have caused this, but we're not going to know when this happened, and if the blood tests come back normal, we won't know why this happened. Unfortunately, this doesn't change the outcome for Joey much, but at least we'd know what to test for in future pregnancies. They aren't giving us much hope that Joey will get any better than he is now and now he's dependent on a machine to breathe for him. We need a miracle, so please everyone keep praying.