Juanita's (the one who had the twins) older daughter Jade (who is 3) is in the hospital and very very sick. She has been sick for a few weeks but it started out just as a cough and fever. They couldn't get the fever under control and it turned into full blown flu. From there is just keep getting worse and worse. Even after several trips to the doctor they were unsure what was going on - but just assumed it was a horrible new flu virus. Juanita took her back to the doctor on Friday because she just wasn't getting better and was becoming very listless. The doctor checked her temp which was finally back down but listened to her lungs and directly admitted her to the hospital. They weren't sure at this point what was going on but figured it may have turned into pneumonia. Here she is Friday at the Corvallis hospital:
She wasn't getting enough air with her lungs filling up so they had to put her on oxygen. I was there seeing her for several hours and she never once came out of the listless stage she was in. Woke long enough to cry when she would cough and then right back out of it. They had her in a quarantine kind of room (because they aren't sure what she has) and you have to wear a mask and such just to go in. Here is a picture from Brayden visiting (they are BFF):
He really didn't want to wear the mask but decided he would cause he really wanted to see her. He would lay his head on the bed next to her and rub her leg and say, "Me's here Gee". It was so very sweet. He took her a stuffie (you can see the pink elephant in the one picture) and a snugglie. It was a brown and pink heart blanket that I couldn't talk him out of (man the kid has expensive taste).
Later that day her situation seemed to just worsen so she was taken by ambulance to a pediatric ICU (Doernbeckers). The nose oxygen just wasn't doing the job and she had to be respirated. She has a tub in her nose draining the fluid from her stomach and one in her lungs draining fluid from it (and lots of other tubes doing who knows what). At this point she is in complete sedation until they see some signs of progression. They were hoping to start tube feeding today but her poor little body just wasn't ready for it. They are really unsure what exactly is going on - or what has caused all this but they do know that the infection has spread to her blood stream. They are watching all her organs closely because of that and also because when her lungs filled up they were SO full it moved all her organs around from pressure. She has been having a few heart problems also - super high spikes then major lows so they have done several scans on it to. Here are some pictures from Saturday once she got settled into ICU:
Brayden is very upset since he can't go to the ICU right now to see her. If you are a praying person - please send some Jade's way. Also - prayers for her family...mom and dad are unable to have the twin babies with them right now and that has been very hard on them to. Thank goodness for the Ronald McDonald house who has put them up. They are hoping once she gets out of ICU they can bring the babies with them. Sounds like they are expecting to keep her there at least another two weeks. I will have another update tomorrow as I am hoping to make it back to see her.
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