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Carter's family needs your help

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Hayle and 5 year old Carter need your help. I met them through a Facebook post about a blood drive for Carter. Hayle and I started talking and she has been telling me their story. At the moment Carter doesn't have insurance and they have no income. They are working on getting Carter's ssi and Medicaid started back. The father has never been there. Hayle can not work because anyone taking care of Carter has to take special classes. They had to move in with Hayle"s parents. Carter is about to have another surgery the beginning of April. This one to remove the part of the esophagus that they originally attached and reattach it. He will be on ice medically paralyzed for at least two weeks. Here are Hayle' s words to me....... Carter and his twin sister was born early at 31 weeks weighing 2.13 and 3.4 being so early they had to have feeding tubes down their noses well when they went to do carter his came back up so they called x-rays into nicu that's when we seen something was seriously wrong his esophagus wasn't connected that's when they had to call in all the docs to have a meeting he had to have a feeding tube gtune put in at 2 days old he already lost weight so he was under 2lbs he was in nicu for 8 months we got to come home we were home for about 2 weeks but every day he spit up this black stuff that smelled like death he only done it once a day so I called and was told to meet at the hospital they done another x-ray and ran die stuff and found a hole in the top part of his esophagus it was leaking his spit and stuff behind his right lung in a pocket which caused for emergency surgery his surgeon said he wasn't coming out of surgery until his esophagus was connected I didn't seen him from sun up to sun down he was in surgery all day we were then put in icu he was medically paralyzed for 2 weeks if not a little longer so I didn't get to even see his eyes open for weeks or any kind of movement on his own for weeks we were in icu for 9 weeks then finally got to go to the main floor where we stayed for another 4 or 5 weeks then we got to come home again. But while we were in icu he couldn't be fed through his gtube bc we didn't know if It'd go up his esophagus well when they did start his gtube feeding I noticed something cream color coming from his nose I jumped up grabbed a rag and it was formula so I called the nurse they cut his food off and called in the doc that's when we figured out he was going to need a jtube put in witch goes straight in is intestine and that's how he's being fed still to this day we've had to go every 2 weeks for surgery so his esophagus wouldn't grow up and we've been having to do these surgeries his whole life he's died on us dozens of times having to call code Stat back to back when we were in icu. Hayle also told me that Carter loves cards and if anyone would like to send this precious little boy a get well card the address is. 202 west Rd Greer SC 29650    

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Michelle Watkins
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Greenville, SC

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