Hey,
I saw this as a bulletin on MySpace. It is really laying heavy on my heart so everyone please pray for this little boy and his family.



http://www.myspace.com/kristyreynolds





I have included pictures and blogs of a high-school friend of mine, Kristy, that is going through a really tough time right now. Her 6 month old son is suffering horribly from Shaken Baby Syndrome! She picked him up from homecare about 3 weeks ago and noticed something was wrong with Kaleb. He was diagnosed with SBS. Please read her entries, and pray along with her. PLEASE!




May 19th, 2007
Great News!!!!



Kaleb was taken off the ventilator! He is breathing on his own! and also moving his right side!!!! Thank you for all of your prayers.



However Kaleb at this point is blind now... The doctors are unsure if he will regain his sight... please pray for his eyes.



May 21st, 2007
He's still in ICU.



I got to hold him yesterday for abouth 30min and that was awesome. I couldn't stop crying, I just completely broke down. I felt like it was the first time that I saw him all over again. I am kind of starting to struggle. It's been 2 weeks almost and all of the shock is starting to wear away and I am starting to feel EVERYTHING. I am so sad. I don't understand why this happened to Kaleb. My heart just hurts.... This woman gets out of jail on a $5,000.00 bond?!?!? What is wrong with our judicial system? A DUI bond is triple that... DUI's have the potential of killing someone on the street... SHE ACTUALLY TRIED TO KILL MY BABY! I am so upset over that.



Back to Kaleb. Last night he spiked a temp. But it has gone down now. Neuro Surgery has said that it is likely that they might remove the drain that is in his brain today.



The nurse told me that Kaleb is moving so much that they keep having to replace the leads on his chest that moniter his heart rate.



I just want Kaleb to look in my eyes again... I miss him so much.




May 24th, 2007

Well... All the news that I have been posting up has been good lately... However I don't have the best news now.



Kaleb has been in a coma for the last 2 days... He's completely unresponsive. The doctors are unable to give us a prognosis at this point. It's just a wait and see type thing. As of right now Kaleb has been able to still breath on his own ... but his tempeture regulator in his body is damaged. One minute he'll be running a fever of 103 and the next it will be 94. He is also very sensitive to movement, his heart rate DROPS any time he is moved the slightest bit.



They did a head tap and are sending it out to be cultured but initial findings show that there are white blood cells in his fluid which means that there is an infection in the spine or brain. They are treating him for that now.



The Catscan showed that there is brain tissue that is dying right now and that his brain is shrinking too.



This all sounds horrible I know... But the doctors keep telling us the babies are resiliant and that he could still pull through this.



Please pray... I beg all of you. This is my little boy... My ONLY little boy.... I just can't imagine life without him. God is still not done.




May 28th, 2007

Well he still is unresponsive and has been for the last week now.. They determined that he also has Bacterial Meningitis(Sp) Which for all of you who aren't in the medical field... This is the worst that you can get. He has the strongest strain too that is resistant to almost all antibiotics. So this is another battle for him to go through.



He also had a Grand Mal seizure on early sunday AM that lasted an hour and a half... So they have put him on stronger seizure meds. Since then he has had 3 more but small ones. He is still having problems regulating his body temp.



We celebrated his 6 month birthday yesterday because at this point we are unsure that he will make it to his first birthday. However we still have hope.



The doctors seem to think that Kaleb, if he makes it through this, will be a vegetable the rest of his life. I do not beleive and will not until I see it for myself.



Please keep praying for him... He has been in ICU for 3 weeks now and looks like he will be in there a lot longer.



I am so tired of seeing pts come and go out of ICU and my son is still there... God please give us a miracle

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I will be praying for this poor little boy and his loving parents. This is a parents worst nightmare!!!!! I don't know how someone could have hurt that poor little boy. I won't even go into details of what I think should happen to the person responsible for this. I am just sitting here crying and feeling so sad I can't imagine how the parents and family feel.

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I was looking at her profile on MySpace and she has pictures of him in the ICU. I was bawling It absolutely breaks my heart and I don't even know them. I just couldn't even begin to imagine what I would do if it was one of my angels. Another bad thing is the woman who did it is getting out on a $5,000 bond.

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I saw those pictures too how terribly sad and even if the baby lives his quality of life might not be what it could have been. If he will be as his mother stated a vegatable the rest of life I wish that the woman resposible for this should still be charged with murder. I know that is not possible but she stole what could have been from him and his family so sad.

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Oh wow, this just breaks my heart. I will pray for her, her family and her sweet little boy. I can't believe someone could do something like that to a little baby and then get out of jail so easily. What is wrong with people?

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This is just awful . That poor little boy and his family. I don't know why people would even think about shaking a baby. I agree, that day care provider should be put in jail - for life! At one of my baby classes I went to, they told us to not toss a baby up into the air, playing, either. I've seen so many people do that and I've always thought it seemed like a bad idea. The nurse said that that causes the same effect as shaken baby syndrome.

OMG how could someone do such a thing. I am in tears reading the post i just cant believe it. I will be praying for the little baby and his family. Just keep faith and he will soon recover.

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Praying......

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