The Abdelkarim Family

Amirah is now five months old, she still has a lot of mico preemie struggles mainly with her stomach. It's been hard on her mom and dad. Amirah's mom stays home with her and works hard at taking care of her. It hasn't been easy many sleepless nights. Bills have been piling up and all Amirahs dad got was to be home with her for a week.  This family is still struggling to make it. If you're able to help it would be greatly appreciated. 

Amirah went home last night!!!❤️ Her parents are so excited to have her home. Amirahs dad had already been running into problems with his current job. They won't give him even a week off to spend with his daughter who's been hospitalized for the last 102 days. He decide to apply for other jobs and put in his two week notice. Having a baby that eats every 2 1/2 to 3 hours is also hard on one person. Please help donate so this family. An be together. Thank you!!

Yesterday, Amirah turned 100 days old. She also hit a HUGE MILESTONE they weaned her off of oxygen!!!😮  We were told she will be trialing no oxygen for two days then she will either come home with out oxygen or come home with a low amount of oxygen.  We been busy getting everything ready for her homecoming. Right now we are just hoping we can get more donations to lessen the stress of financials of her dad being able to spend sometime at home supporting his wife and daughter. 

Amirah has come such a long way!!! She is now on 1.5 liters of high flow oxygen. She weighs 6 lbs 11.6 oz and is bottle feeding as of a couple days ago. Today we heard they will be getting rid of her NG tube. We are getting closer to Amirah coming home and 6 days away from her actual due date!!! This family really wants to be able to spend a couple weeks together with Amitabh when she gets home from the hospital!! Amirah's dad is hard working man but doesn't get pto at his job. Just looking for help to eliminate financial stress at this time so the focus can be on Amirah!!!❤️

Amirah had surgery on Thursday morning for her herniated ovary. They were able put it back into her abdominal wall. The surgeon also looked attacked other side and found intestines had herniated on the other side and repaired that also. Amirah had a hard time after the surgery and didn't wake up until  about 1 am on Friday morning. We were worried about her cause she was letting the ventilator breathe for her for many hours after the surgery. She finally woke up and was extubated at about 530 am. All weekend she has been pretty fussy but they been giving her Tylenol. We are hoping this little fighter feels better soon. They been trying to wean Amirah down on oxygen so she can learn how to bottle feed. Amirah turned 3 months old on the 27th. She has spent all that time in the NICU we hope she can come home sometime in the next 3 to 8 weeks. ❤️❤️Thank you, for your support for this family!!!

Amirahs family is yet facing another challenge. One of their family members is sick with COVID in the house they live in. This has been difficult for Serenity since she is not feeling comfortable going to see Amirah, until she knows for sure she isn't sick since being exposed. Of course keeping Amirah safe from illness is their number one priority. It doesn't mean it's an easy one. This is the longest Amirahs' mom has went without holding her and next week she has surgery. Please pray for this family. 

The picture was taking on Tuesday the 17th of May, last time Serenity got to hold Amirah. ❤️

Amirah's test results came back from the pulmonary hypertension tests, and they were normal. This is such good news!!! The Critical Care Team started working with Amirah this week. Yesterday, when doing an assessment on her they found a mass in her groin. They decided to do an ultrasound to figure out what's going on. They found that Amirahs ovary has herniated into her groin area out of her abdominal wall. Today, we heard from the surgeon and they are planning on doing surgery on Amirah next week. 

The Critical care team also thinks it's best do do a bronchoscopy to get a good look at Amirahs vocal cords and esophagus and lungs. She doesn't really have a cry and the sound that comes out is quiet and hoarse. They want to see what's cause these problems. 

This week will be a hard one for this family. Please, keep Amirah in you prayers. Thank you, for caring for this family!!❤️