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 that his spleen is enlarged, and they believe that he has Hemolytic Anemia. So he's had 3 transfusions and is going to be receiving continuous transfusions until his counts are up and hopefully then they will be sending him home and we will come in to the hospital about 2-3 times a week for a blood draw, and maybe a transfusion if he needs one. Write more later.

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 on May 7th and I got to hold my baby for the first time since he was born. Jacob started eating and had some difficulties so they did an x-ray and determined that he had very bad reflux. So they put him on some medicine. Jacob was sent home on May 19th, and we just had his first check-up with the surgeon. He seems to be doing very well.