A little of Mattie's background follows from Tracie's blog: "Matthias is now 2 1/2. We are blessed beyond belief with this treasure of a little boy. Mattie has Down syndrome and was hospitalized the first year of life. He is now home living with our family and loving life. Mattie has a tracheostomy, is on a ventillator part time, has a Gtube for feeding, and has had two heart surgeries.
Today his family shares the following update, following several recent hospitalizations for respiratory infections:
I have withheld the severity of Mattie’s most recent illness until we were able to talk with our older children face to face this morning. Last night was the worst night we have ever faced with Mattie. He became ill suddenly on Thursday night and went down hill with puzzling symptoms throughout the day Friday.
By Friday evening we were needing to increase vent settings at home and had him on the highest level of oxygen possible, his lungs started bleeding. We rushed him to the ER around 7PM. He was quickly transferred up to the PICU where even on the hospital ventilator, they weren’t able to get his oxygen saturation to go up.
As they continued to adjust settings, he crashed. And like a bad movie was taking place before our eyes, they resuscitated him and did chest compressions. This happened 4 times last night while they worked to put in central lines, arterial lines, giving life saving medications, and transfer him to an oscillating ventilator. He has bacterial pneumonia and is septic. He is as stable as is possible at the moment, yet critically ill.
Mattie needs a miracle. We need you to surround us. Pleas pray for us, our son, our other children, and for the medical team supporting our son.
We are clinging to the One who saves and delivers.
PLEASE PRAY for Mattie today! His life has already touched so many, and we pray that the Lord will again uplift his little body. You can read more about him at the family blog at http://tracieloux.wordpress.com/.
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