My sister's struggles

I can't remember if I posted anything about my sister's baby, Miya, who was born January 14 at 30ish weeks gestation. She was 4lb and 17 in. This is a letter from Danielle. Dear Family and Friends and Total Strangers, Baby Miya was born via emergency c-section due to large amounts of fluid in the abdomen. Even now, after several tests, her illness still remains an enigma. Her platelets keep dropping, and difficulty breathing due to pressure on the lungs becomes greater every day due to a steady increase in the volume of fluid that is building up. Her own mother cannot take her into her arms to hold, and baby cannot even have the warmth of mother's milk running down her throat. Instead, there's a picc in her veins that needs to be moved around every few days due to a vein collapsing, and tubes in her nose, and wires hooked up all around her to monitor her progress, or lack thereof. Please, pray for this sweet infant. Pray to our loving Heavenly Father, the Great God of Israel, who created us all in his image, and knew us even before we were born. Pray that Miya be healed quickly; that she grow up strong in body, mind, and spirit. Pray that she may be comforted in this affliction that she's been made to suffer through so early in life, and that her family, extended and immediate, be comforted as well as they suffer emotionally from the pains of having to watch such a sweet baby girl go through something like this so early in life, even before she was born did this illness begin. And most importantly, pray that the Lord's will be done. Always the Lord's will be done. Thanks you. Sincerely, Miya's mother. As of now the baby is growing and eating from a bottle but they still don't know where the fluid is coming from. Her platelets are stable and the fluid isn't increasing but slowly decreasing. Once she can eat better she can go home. Danielle on the other hand is not doing very well at all. Here is an email I got from my mom 2 days ago... Danielle's appendix ruptured sometime this week. She thought she had the flu and had to undergo extensive surgery to cleanse her abdominal area and have the bad appendix removed. I think we almost lost her. If you would like to give Danielle a quick call. She is quite groggy from the antibiotics and pain killers, but I'm sure she would enjoy hearing from you briefly. Love you all, Mother I guess she thought it was her ovary giving her problems from the tubes getting tied so she didn't worry about it. When she was throwing up and diarrhea she just thought it was the flu. Then she started sleeping nonstop and my mom went to check on her and took her to the ER. Thank goodness for Mom!!! Danielle is now having a hard time recovering and will spend another few days in the hospital. I guess today they opened the staples and a bunch of fluid came out. I am sad for my sister...she hasn't even seen her baby in a week even though they are in the hospital together.