Early Monday morning Nathan and Amber got a call saying that Jax's white blood cells were very high and he had developed an infection in his small intestine. Immeaditelly, doctors put him on several antibotics to try to stop the infection from spreading and from getting worse in his body. Jax was also put on a ventelator and morphine to help the pain and for Jax to relax and rest as peacefully as possible. The venelator was not because Jax was not breathing, his lungs are still very healthy, it's just to help him relax and not have to do as much work. By 11:00 a.m. x-ray's showed that the antibotics were not making anything better. At this time the decision was made to transfer Jax to Egleston at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
As soon as Jax arrived to Egleston doctors met with Nathan and Amber and surgery was performed on his small intestine. They ended up removing around 60% of his small intestine. The middle of the intestine is what the Dr.s removed, they had to clamp the other two ends together and sew him back up. On Thursday, July 22, Dr.s will go back in to sew the "middle part, so to say" of his intestines back together and to see if there are anymore infections in his intesine. The max that the doctors can remove of the intestine is 80%, they don't have too much left to work with.
Needless to say, Thursday is a big day for our strong little fighter and we really need all of your prayers.
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