Say a prayer for my little girl
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This is kind of hard to post, because the whole situation is so freaking complicated. But I thought I might let you guys know, rather than not. Here's the abridged version.
My daughter, 8 years old, got sick at the beginning of last week with some kind of virus. It started as a stomach virus that killed her appetite, and after we put her in the hospital for dehydration, she developed respiratory symptoms, which got progressively worse. She's in the Pediatric ICU now, and last night they had to put her on the ventilator. That's the machine that does her breathing for her. She's not in danger of dying now, but she's not better yet.
Now, my nuclear family (me + wife + son + daughter) are not strangers to the hospital. Both my kids are genetically immune-deficient, and get really expensive treatments every month (and each sports a cool intravenous port implant for that purpose). My son (11 years old) has had medical problems his entire life, and he was on the vent for two weeks and in ICU for two months about five years ago. That was just about the worst time we've ever had. We're old hands at this, but this is a return to some territory we'd rather not have seen again.
My daughter is in better shape than my son ever was at this same juncture, so we expect recovery... we just don't know when, exactly. She's got loads of chance, but the next few days are critical in the extreme. There isn't too much road between here and the end, if you get my meaning.
I'm not what you call religious, but I do happen to believe that directed positive (or negative) emotions have some influence over probability and other intangible routes of existence. "The power of prayer", they call it in church. We have crowds of family and friends pulling for us, but I thought that appealing to yet another community of mutual regard (the mighty Green and Black) couldn't hurt a bit.
So if you want to, send up a little bit of positive energy to your chosen Higher Power, or simply straight to my little girl. Her name is Jessica Marshall, and she's stuck in a hole that she's got to pull herself out of. She could use a little help from everyone reading this.
Thanks, everyone. I'll post updates.
/jzero
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My daughter, 8 years old, got sick at the beginning of last week with some kind of virus. It started as a stomach virus that killed her appetite, and after we put her in the hospital for dehydration, she developed respiratory symptoms, which got progressively worse. She's in the Pediatric ICU now, and last night they had to put her on the ventilator. That's the machine that does her breathing for her. She's not in danger of dying now, but she's not better yet.
Now, my nuclear family (me + wife + son + daughter) are not strangers to the hospital. Both my kids are genetically immune-deficient, and get really expensive treatments every month (and each sports a cool intravenous port implant for that purpose). My son (11 years old) has had medical problems his entire life, and he was on the vent for two weeks and in ICU for two months about five years ago. That was just about the worst time we've ever had. We're old hands at this, but this is a return to some territory we'd rather not have seen again.
My daughter is in better shape than my son ever was at this same juncture, so we expect recovery... we just don't know when, exactly. She's got loads of chance, but the next few days are critical in the extreme. There isn't too much road between here and the end, if you get my meaning.
I'm not what you call religious, but I do happen to believe that directed positive (or negative) emotions have some influence over probability and other intangible routes of existence. "The power of prayer", they call it in church. We have crowds of family and friends pulling for us, but I thought that appealing to yet another community of mutual regard (the mighty Green and Black) couldn't hurt a bit.
So if you want to, send up a little bit of positive energy to your chosen Higher Power, or simply straight to my little girl. Her name is Jessica Marshall, and she's stuck in a hole that she's got to pull herself out of. She could use a little help from everyone reading this.
Thanks, everyone. I'll post updates.
/jzero
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may the force be with you
(not religous, best i can do)
God bless,
-R
My youngest has been hospitalised twice in his 14 months short life but for nothing very serious but still I remember the horrible helpless feeling.
I'll be beaming positive thoughts accross the ocean these days.
I wish you the best of luck and loads of strength for you and your family to get through this.
Best of luck to your family and keep strong.
Good luck and get well cutie
I can't offer any prayers or spirital guidance, but I hope for nothing but the best for Jessica, and I hope that she can get back to her happy childhood as quickly as possible.
Thank you for sharing this with us jzero, I look forward to hearing when she has recovered.
Good luck and happiness to all of your family.
She'll be in my thoughts, she's clearly a wee sweetheart and I understand what its like when they develop 'serious' problems. I'll wish her all the best each day like I do with my own wee darling.
Chin up m8, things get better too sometimes.
I hope for the best for you and your family.
Thoughts and prayers with all of you..
Spark
I'm praying for your family man, and I actually do believe in prayer
Keep us posted..
hope she gets better