Zachary the gastroschisis warrior

Hi family and friends!
I just want to start off by saying thank you so much for all the blessings, prayers, and positive thoughts. All of you have truly been a blessing to Michael, Zachary, and I. For you that don't know, let me tell you a little about our baby boy.

Zachary was born with a condition called gastroschisis, where his intestines were on the outside when he was born. He was born via C-section on September 17, 2016, he was a month early. His birth wasn't the easiest, he came out not breathing and they had to preform CPR. After they got Zachary stable, he was cleaned up and his daddy was able to finish cutting the umbilical cord. He was then transferred to Children's in Oklahoma City. He had a silo put in, which would allow his intestines to slowly move back into his belly. Four days later, we laid our baby in surgeons arms and he was completely closer up. After a month of waiting for him to have his first poop and for his repogal to stop pulling bile. He finally pooped (and let me tell you I never imagined being so excited for poop lol) and his repogal cleared up. Then came our next struggle, feedings. For two months Zachary struggled with feedings, he would do really good then hit a wall and start throwing up bile. After two months of a lot of tears and frustration the surgeons sat us down and gave us two choices. Choice 1: put a feeding tube down and start continuous feeds (but he would need surgery eventually for a gtube) or choice 2: do an exploratory surgery, where they would pull out all his intestines run their fingers along the intestines and look for blockages. This choice was not easy for us to make, knowing both had risks. Michael and I finally made the choice to do the surgery. The next day we laid our baby in surgeons arms for the second time. The 1.5 hour surgery turned into a 5 hour surgery. They indeed found a blockage. They removed 8 cm of his bowel and his appendix. Then came our next speed bump, the ventilator. They tried removing the vent but due to so much swelling he was unable to really breath so they had to put the vent back in. They were able to remove it the next night. But due to all the putting in and taking out of the vent, it caused a large band of scar tissue in Zachary's airway. So a few days later we once again for the third time laid our baby boy in surgeons arms to have the scar tissue removed. Once all this was said and done Zachary was doing amazing and we were set to go home on Jan 2nd until he starting throwing up bile color again on Jan 1st. So now its a waiting game of trying to figure out what caused Zachary's back track.

We really don't feel right asking for money, but things are starting to add up quickly.  So even if you can donate 1$, every little bit helps. And we have no clue how long we might be here.

We are truly grateful for all you have done.

Have an amazing day and God bless.