Part sixteen: A fighter to the end

Think Positive

It is confirmed that Kriss has an infection...gram negative bacteria. These bacteria are extremely drug-resistant.

Despite advances in healthcare, neonatal sepsis, and especially that caused by Gram-negative rod bacteria, is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among preterm and very low birth weight (VLBW).

The specific organism infecting Kriss will be identified in a couple of days. 

The other two babies with infection don't look good. One of them is so skinny you could thread her through a needle and the ribs bones extremely protruding. She barely moves. If Kriss is infected by the same organism suffered by the other two...It really scares me to even think about it.

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At the moment he looks tired, but he looks better than yesterday. He has started taking 8ml of baby formula every 3 hours.

I had my chest x-rayed, thanks to Dr Eeson of O&G. If he leaves it to the Oncologist, I’d probably be in the long list wait which like it will never happen. I took a look at the film...the left lung doesn't look good. In fact, it looks pretty bad...

For most cancers, the grade is a measure of how abnormal the cancer cells look under the microscope. The grade is usually assigned by a number from I to IV. The lower the number, the more the cancer cells look like cells from normal tissue. Cancer staging will determine the severity to which cancer  cells has developed by spreading to other normal tissue.. 

It  Stage lV of most cancers patients is when the cancer has spread or is at a point when it cannot be successfully treated or cured in most people. But sometimes a successful treatment can be found, so a person with cancer should never give up,

I hang on to my husband for strength. He is absorbing the whole situation better than I do, thinking positively most of the time. He truly believes that the antibiotics will work well for Kriss, and chemo will do wonders for me.

...do pray for us