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  1. Jacob's In The Hospital Again

    Jacob has been doing really good recently. But on Thursday he began vomiting. In total he vomited 7 times, and the last time it had blood in it, so I decided to take him to the ER. There they did some blood tests and found out that Jacob's blood counts were way down. It took about 6 tries to get an IV in and finally it had to go into his head. They started a blood transfusion which brought his counts up from 3 to 5, and 12 to 16, and then they did some ultrasounds and other things. They found out ...
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  2. Jacob Ray Hall

    My son Jacob Ray Hall was born on May 2nd 2008 at 11:13 A.M. He was 8lbs11oz and 22 inches long. He was born with an undiagnosed Left Sided CDH, and was immediately taken to Mass General from Maine by ambulance. He was intubated and had lots of IV's and other tubes leading everywhere. On May 4, 2008 Jacob underwent surgery to repair his hernia. The surgeons found that all of his bowels, his stomach, his liver, his spleen, where all in his chest cavity, and they managed to fix it. Jacob was extubated ...
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