June 1,2009

For those of you who did not know, Hilton was readmitted to Children's Hospital on this past Friday. It appears that he had a sudden twist in his bowels which caused a bacterial infection to occur in his intestines. He had exploratory surgery of his bowel done on Friday. The surgeons left his bowel out to allow the swelling to subside in his abdomen. He had surgery this morning in the hopes of putting all of the bowel back in and also that parts of the bowel would not have to be removed due to death of the tissue due to the infection. Hilton came through the surgery very well. None of the bowel was dead and had to be removed and they were able to close his abdomen. He is back in the NICU and all of his initial lab tests and blood gasses look good. Please everyone pray for Hilton and our family. This has been a really rough road for us and we are all praying that Hilton will do well and we can return home as soon as possible. Hilton is such a strong little boy and we are so proud to call him our son.