4 GENERATIONS

On Mother's Day we visited Grandma and Grandpa Morley and took some 4 generation pictures with they boys. They were'nt very cooperative for the camera.

HEMMORAGE IN MY HANDS

On Wednesday we took Riley to the Doctor's Office to evaluate his jaundice and get circumcised. They went over the information about the risks with circumcision before they did it. One thing they said was that there was a very slight chance that it would bleed lightly, but just to wrap it tightly and it should stop after 5 minutes. The doctor brought Riley back in the room after it was all done and said it was a clean cut and went well so there shouldn't be any problems. Well, Jill went into the waiting room and started feeding Riley and looked down at his foot where he had the PKU done and blood was oozing out of his foot where the bandaid must have fallen off. She went to the desk to ask for another bandaid and looked down again and saw blood pouring out of his diaper and said "I think I'm going to need more than a bandaid. I need the Doctor."

They brought Jill and Riley back into the room and wrapped it tightly and it didn't stop the blood, so they poured this brown powder on it over and over and over again and that didn't stop the blood. It had been 20 minutes, so they called for another doctor. Jill started getting nervous when they called for yet another Doctor 45 minutes after that. They had her leave the room-most likely because she was making them nervous with 20 questions. They put 4 stitches on him which in that office had only been done once before. That also did not stop the bleeding. Jill called her brother to come administer a blessing to Riley after the doctor told her they may need to get an ambulance to take him to Primary Children's Hospital. They allowed a couple minutes for a blessing and then checked Riley right after and the bleeding finally slowed down. We were so thankful. They allowed Jill to drive him to Primary Children's to get checked by the Urologist on call. He said the bleeding had pretty much stopped and that about 1 in 8000 babies have this type of hemmorage in that area-very rare, but that everything looked fine.

It was a really scary experience for us because we thought we were going to lose him. We are grateful for the priesthood that we believe stopped the bleeding and helped him recover quickly. Everything is back to normal now and we are just waiting for the last stitches to dissolve. Thanks to everyone for their prayers on our behalf and for the help.

JAUNDICE UPDATE

So we thought that the jaundice was taken care of yesterday when one pediatrician said it was okay to take Riley off the bililights, so when we had his blood taken this morning we were shocked when they told us that he had to go back on the lights. No one would give us the results until late in the afternoon (normally they let us know within the hour). We felt like we were given the runaround. One pediatrician couldn't give us the results because their computers were down and the other pediatrician didn't want to give us the results because they thought that we wouldn't pay. Each time that we got the results back they would tell us opposite things to do so it became very frustrating.