Well we though we were home free, a couple days after we all got home Taylor started to get worse. I ended up taking her to the hospital around 8:30 p.m., I had to drop her off since I had the two boys with me. They first thought she had sepsis. Fortunately the tests for it came back negative, but the pneumonia turned into a viral lung infection. So they gave her two rounds of antibiotics and pushed fluids. She called me around 1:30 a.m. and I loaded up the boys to go pick her up from the hospital. The next two days I had to stay home from work and take care of her and Silas. Taylor was not allowed to touch Silas till Wednesday because she was still contagious. Fortunately Wednesday she started feeling better. By Thursday Taylor actually played the piano for the first time in about 3-4 months which was awesome for her. It was good to start to see her personality start to come back after all of this trauma she's went through. Silas is doing well he had a slight cold from Taylor but he got over it in about 4 days. He is eating like an animal he is about 7.5lbs now. We are all trying to get into new schedules and sleep patterns for night feedings. We are doing better though. We thank everyone for prayers, meals, stop by's, and financial help. We keep trusting in God to get us the rest of the way through this season. 

We love y'all, 

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, Silas

We are home, and no one is in immediate danger is what I have to keep telling myself. It's been a rough go of it. We are trying to stay positive as much as we can. God has seen us through the toughest part of this storm. We are all completely exhausted sleep is still a commodity more valuable than gold to us. Taylor is really struggling with pumping and feeding twice a night, I do the other shift at midnight. Yesterday Taylor was diagnosed with a UTI, and bacterial pneumonia. They both came from the catheter she had to have after the hysterectomy. She is coughing a lot which is just causing her so much pain on her stitches. This form of pneumonia is contagious, so we took the boys back into the pediatrician to get checked out. Fortunately they both came back with healthy sounding lungs. Praise God for that we would have been in for a ride if Silas got sick at this stage. Silas is growing well he is now 7lbs 2oz. He is actually starting to hold pressure on is pacifier to keep it in his mouth. Overall he is doing well. Adaiah is still dealing with is cough from croup, he runs out of breath pretty quick. That didn't stop him from racing me to the elevator so he could press the button at the doctors. He won ;) , I blame it on the fact that I had Silas in the carrier with me jogging down the hallway. Taylor had some ladies from the worship team from church visit her on Wednesday which was nice. Up until about half way through the pregnancy she played piano at church, I know she misses it and wants to get back as soon as she can stand to sit upright for a while. Thank you again to everyone that has been praying us through this crazy time. We can use all the prayers y'all will give us. Please pray for healing of Taylors body, and no spreading of the illness to anyone else in the house. Please continue to pray for rest and restoration of body, mind, and spiritual for the whole family. 

We love y'all 

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, Silas

We are all home under one roof as of Friday the 28th. For a total of 30 days from start to finish. It has been a rough road through all of this. In these rough times have been able to see God work in powerful ways to meet our needs. It's been everything from Taylors mom watching our dog the whole time, my parents, and Taylors mom watching Adaiah during the week, a homeschooling co-op making frozen dinners and giving diapers, our neighbor taking care of our chickens when our house was empty, a couple guys at my fire department getting extra med training on how to deal with certain side effects of some of the medicines Taylor was on and staging a med bag at my neighbor's house across the street who is also on the department. There are so many more examples I could take all day listing them. Now that everyone is under one roof we can truly start that road to recovery. Taylor is truly exhausted from the multiple surgeries, and now we move into the stage of feeding Silas all hours of the night, so sleep is ever elusive for the both of us. Please be praying for rest and revitalization for us. Taylor is able to stand longer she can go for about 8-10 minutes which its getting a little long every day. She is struggling with the mental and physical trauma from three major surgeries in 2 weeks, and almost dying a couple times in there. Adaiah is really struggling with anytime we say anything about getting shoes or a jacket on because that means leaving. His schedule for the past several weeks has been my parents during the week then I pick him up Friday, come home then off to the NICU house on Saturday and back to my parents on Sunday. He currently really struggles if I leave the house. I am also very tired and worn down, with her last surgery it was a coin toss if I would be a single parent. The short of it is Silas is officially doing better than the rest of us lol. He's continuing to grow well when he left the NICU he was 6lbs 13oz the NICU gave us some calorie boosting formula to mix with his milk so he is doing well. He has had a couple bradycardia event since we have brought him home it never gets easier seeing him go through it but we are pretty good at getting him out of them. He has his first pediatrician appointment tomorrow. I have been lining up the days this week with people to check in or hang out with Taylor since I went back to work today. Again it is so amazing to witness the love and support from everyone during this crazy time in our lives. We are hoping next week really starts to be the new normal and start to settle down a bit. Through all of this we have got see God's grace, protection, and provision. Thank you all for everything.

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, Silas

Hey everyone, 

We got Taylor home on Monday, she is struggling with constant pain and exhaustion. Please be praying for restoration of her body, mind, and rest. Currently she can walk about 15-20 steps and is completely exhausted and in pain. We were supposed to bring Silas home today, then yesterday we were informed that he wouldn't be released till Friday. That was a little bit of a bummer. Our oldest Adaiah developed a little bit of a cough last night, this morning when he woke up it was very raspy, and deep. We took him to the doctors today, and found out he has croup. The doctor told us we have to keep the boys separated as much as possible for 3 days. We know this will be Adaiah because we have been hyping him up about being a big brother and seeing his little brother for the first time. Kids are not allowed in the NICU so Adaiah has not met Silas yet. On a positive note we learned that since Silas has been in the NICU longer than 30 days that Medicaid automatically covers the bill. That's is a big praise as of Tuesday it was at 292k. We are currently just navigating all of Taylor's reports, follow up appointments, and the billing with that. Through all of this we have been able to see how our family friends and community help us in ways we couldn't have imagined. We are so thankful to everyone that reached out to us to talk with us or just listen to us in this hard time. We ask for prayers as we try to have a new normal back home, Taylors recovery, Silas' immune system and hopefully he doesn't get sick from Adaiah.

Thanks Y'all 

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, Silas

Hey everyone, 

So the 22nd Taylor went unresponsive, and they called a code on her. I was over at the Hope House (house for NICU families) getting a nap not in a recliner when the nurse called me off of Taylors phone and said I needed to get there now. I ran across the parking lot and got up there, and found Taylor in an almost combative state. They took her down for an emergency C.T. scan thinking she may have had a stroke. The scan came back negative for stroke. What we did find out is they pretty much overdosed Taylor on pain meds and they had to give her Narcan to bring her back. She was in quite a bit of pain the rest of the day. She was afraid to take any more pain killers. Towards the night she couldn't bear the pain anymore, and accepted some medicine in the ibuprofen family. We got a couple hours of sleep. The next day my mom, and Marlene came the next morning and helped Taylor and just hung out with her and talked. We were also informed that silas had small cardiac event the night before, so he had 5 days added to his stay in the NICU. We are now shooting for 27th for his discharge date. Taylor was discharged that evening. We got home and Taylor was able to sleep at the house for the first time in a month. 

Taylor just went unresponsive, they administered meds and she's awake; however, they're doing an emergency CT to rule-out a stroke. As of yesterday, Taylor's pain was elevated ... but they ruled out blood clots. PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY --- and please continue to donate. This is a much-longer road that they've already walked - and continues to be laden with challenges. God's already there ~ and He has surrounded Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, and Silas with beautiful friends and family to support them. Thank you :)

Hey everyone, today was pretty rough. I know Taylor wrote an update earlier today as well this is mine it has a few other details in it as well.

I was pulling into work when Taylor called me and said she was losing lots of blood and was going to the ER. I got to the ER with hearing an all call for room 11 which is where she was Monday night. They gave her 4 units of blood so I'm guessing that's what she lost. They sent in the Chaplin to comfort Taylor which has never happened to us before, so that made things a little more tense. I know doctors can't promise it will be alright but the way they all skirted questions, it seemed like everyone was on edge. She was in surgery about 2 hours. They performed a hysterectomy and took her uterus and cervix. The surgeon said her C-section stitching had busted. It was most likely weakened from the surgery she had on Monday for retained placenta. She got out of surgery and was moved to the ICU due to the blood loss and observation that would be needed for the next 24 hours. She was in extreme pain for the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon till the pain meds finally caught up. She slept on and off from 3:30p-6:30p. To think yesterday she had her 30th birthday. If y'all think about it keep her in your prayers she's had a rough go of it this past month and a half. Silas is doing extremely well I'm pretty sure he'll beat her to a release date. The doc said he's ready to go home. I talked to the doctor this morning about the situation, and he decided that "Silas wasn't progressing as fast as he wanted to see." Which made it so Silas couldn't be discharged for a few more days. So he could stay in the hospital with mom. We were very grateful to him for not just looking at the bottom line and getting one patient out to get another in. So now we can stay in the hospital together. My boss was gracious enough to give me the rest of the week, and next off. So I will be home taking care of things. Discharge date is possibly Saturday afternoon. Thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers. We love y'all.

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, and Silas

This morning around 4:30 Taylor woke up in bed covered in blood. She was hemorrhaging profusely and lost a half gallon of blood between there and the hospital ER. The stitching on her uterus busted and she was bleeding internally as well. By 7am she underwent and emergency hysterectomy. At 11:30am she woke up in immense pain. All the meds and nerve block didn't work. She will be in ICU for a few days as she was near death and had a Chaplin speak with her before surgery. She didn't know if she was going to live, but she told God she needed to live for her family; for her children, for her husband, for many people... for herself.

Please continue to pray for this family and if you feel compelled, they are in dire need of funds or food when they get home, as they have not been able to work through this all.

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of love, prayers, and support. We are truly blown away from the kindness of everyone. 

Silas is doing extremely well he is gaining weight at a good rate now he is 5lbs 4oz. Taylor is able to nurse him multiple times a day, and the nurses started him on bottle feeding as well. Currently the most he's drank of a bottle is 57%. The goal the are shooting for is a minimum of 90%. There is a good possibility he could reach that by next week. Tomorrow the nurse will start to ween him off off the nicu box. They will start clothing him and letting him try to heat himself. Once he completes that step he has a 3 hour car seat test. If he passes all of that we can get discharged. 

My parents, sister along with her family, Adaiah, and I all ended up with the flu either this week or last. Fortunately Taylor, and Silas did not contract it. Prayers would be appreciated in this we are all feeling really miserable. Adaiah is also struggling being apart from us so much so that is tough on Taylor and I especially Taylor because she sees him the least. Taylors recovery is going well though she battled a nasty infection for the first week after surgery, they had her on antibiotics and steroids. Fortunately I think those kept the flu at bay for her. She walks everyday from hopes harbor, where she temporarily lives to the nicu everyday. Everyday it gets a little easier it's probably around 2500 feet from point a to b. 

That is about all of the current news on us at the moment, again thank you all so much for the love, prayers, and support. Please continue to pray for a growing healthy boy, a complete recovery for Taylor, and the strains of everyone being under a different roof each night. It is not an easy thing.

We love y'all,

Kaleb, Taylor, Adaiah, and Silas