Update: September 28th

Thank You for all of your wonderful support.

Emmy has not crashed since 11:00am on Tuesday and we are hoping each hour that she continues to stay strong. She turned 16 months today and hopefully that will bring with i...t some new 16 month old strength to fight this. Emmy had a minor procedure done in the afternoon yesterday to place a vac on her opened stomach to capture and measure the fluid she excretes. She handled it very well and was moved to what the staff call the "princess suite" to allow them to monitor her better. She is continuing to thrive as they very slowly wean her off of her blood pressure medications.

We have read many many emails to her and love ALL of them. We cannot get enough. Please keep sending them. emersonroessler@gmail.com They have helped fill us with hope and many times laughter.

Emmy has now survived past the 48 hour marker. While she is still unstable and in critical condition, this is in itself a small victory. We are told that we hope to see her start to fight this thing in the next 48 hours.

Please pass this on to anyone we may have left out. You may receive this twice as we are having trouble compiling everyone's emails in to one email account.

Update: September 27th

We know everyone is concerned and thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

For those who don't know. Emerson was sick with what appeared to be just a common cold and took a turn Saturday evening into a very serious situation. Although the doctors are still not exactly sure what is causing the infection they a helping her battle it with all the resources they have. 

Emerson had surgery last night to drain the fluid that has been filling up in her abdomen and causing stress on her organs. The surgery want well. They opened her up, drained about a liter of fluid and pulled her bowels out. They left the abdomen open and her bowels will be out for a couple of days so they can continue draining fluid and give her other organs the space they need to do their job. They also put tubes in her sides near her lungs to keep the fluid draining up there. After the surgery she began to urinate which is a great sign for kidney function. She was also taken off a ventilator that breathed for her in very quick shallow breaths which is used when your lungs are sick and put her on a ventilator that breathes slow deep breaths. Getting her back on this ventilator is also a good sign. Also after the surgery the nurses were very encouraged that her blood work and gases looked good so it appears that her body is doing what it should.  During the night her medications were significantly reduced and is responding to that really well.  The staff there has been absolutely incredible, some working past their shifts.  This morning the head nurse, who came in on her day off, was in working on her and was holding her hand, reached away to adjust something and Emmy started grasping the air with her hand looking for something to hold.  It was an amazing moment that has given everyone much needed hope.  She is still very very sick and battling for her life, a battle that is going to take days and probably weeks, but she is on the right path right now.  Brian and Jess are hanging in there and celebrating the small victories.  We are very appreciative of all the prayers, thoughts and offers of help.

Thanks and we will try to keep you updated.  Please pass this on to anyone we forgot to include.