Archive for March 2, 2007

Friday, March 2, 2007

Back in the Picu

Ramona has been re-admited to the hospital and is back up in the PICU. They are doing a new echocardiogram to determine if she is still getting good flow where they opened things up during her surgery on Valentine’s Day. If the test shows that what they did is holding and working as [...]

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Friday, March 2, 2007

In The ER

I just spoke with Jane very briefly and they have taken Ramona to the ER. Ramona’s oxygenation is back in the 40’s and 50’s and the doctors are trying stabilize her. This is more than Jane and Andy can take care of at home. Please pray that if she needs more care [...]

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Friday, March 2, 2007

Possible ER Visit

We are now trying to determine if Ramona needs to be readmitted. She has vomited twice today her entire stomach contents and has been sleepless and sometimes inconsolable since we brought her home. Twice she has become so upset that she has had significant trouble breathing and has broken into a sweat, which [...]

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Friday, March 2, 2007

The Ugly Truth

On February 13th I brought my calm, smiling and, I thought, healthy baby to the emergency room to follow up on an ultrasound. Now the doctors have cut her open, stuck about a billion tubes in her, pumped her full of formula and returned to me a child I sometimes don’t even recognize.

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