My poor friends. I miss them so much and wish they were closer. This is her story:
So we were discharged from the hospital and on the way home on 17 south. A small plane carshed right in front of us and we were hit by all the debri and jet fuel. We are all ok...What a crazy week! I thought we were all about to die Here is the Gianna Story... I am so happy to have my baby home and in her bed. All I can say is, I cannot believe how quickly things can go down hill. Thank you to everyone that has kept Gianna in your prayers. We appreciate every one of them! So here’s the story…if you wanna read...its longFriday night, Gianna started having a fever, Saturday I gave her Motrin and she was fine. She woke up from her nap and she started having the “croup” cough, sounding like a seal kinda cough. She was having a little noise when she was breathing in and out so that concerned me and I decided to take her to the ER. I went to one that I normally do not go to…thinking that it might be a shorter wait time. I got there at 5:30 and didn’t get seen till almost 8:30. I was taken to the back where we sat in a chair for almost an hour before I had to call the nurse to have her check her oxygen level because I thought she was not breathing right. She was sleeping. But snoring really loud. She doesn’t normally snore at all. Well her oxygen was fine. They eventually gave her a breathing treatment (one that is normally given for croup, not like asthma) And they tried to give her a steroid by mouth and she may have swallowed a fourth of it, if that. 3 hours later…the doctor listened to her..said she sounded a little tight or wet but that her oxygen was fine so We were discharged at 12am. With a diagnosis of croup and a prescription for steroids. Took her home..put her to bed. About 2 hours later she was up crying and was making a lot of noise trying to breath. I took her to the bathroom with the hot shower running.., didn’t help…then outside to breath in some cool air…didn’t help. So I then decided to take her back to the ER..but I took her to the one I normally go to. I get there about 4-4:30am they register her and take her oxygen…still good. As she sits there struggling to breath. Then they take her right back the ER which was empty. The Dr took one look at her chest/stomach and said…she is very sick, she will be admitted. As they keep observing her, she is getting tired of struggling to breath every breath. Her heart rate was 202, She vomited and then She started to fall asleep and was becoming incoherent. They started calling for the pediatric crash cart and called the rapid response team. They called for the anesthesia team and then They had to put a tube down her throat before her body just gave up. They gave her 2 IVs and also a tube down her nose. Before I knew it she was being loaded onto a helicopter being transported to the children’s hospital in VA. Admitted to PICU at CHKD at about 7am. Where she was on a ventilator for the next 48 hours. They did a surgery where they put a scope down her throat to determine where the swelling was coming from. Tuesday morning they took the tube out and she has been breathing on her own since. They are now saying that she also has Pneumonia. She is slowly getting better and is waking up for short periods and drinking her milk.
Can you imagine...after watching your baby in PICU for 3 days, you are allowed to bring her home, and a flipping plane hits you....WTF!!!
Well Melissa and Walt, we love you and wish we could be closer to cupcake!! Thanks for letting her be in our life, being her god parents mean the world to us.
So we were discharged from the hospital and on the way home on 17 south. A small plane carshed right in front of us and we were hit by all the debri and jet fuel. We are all ok...What a crazy week! I thought we were all about to die Here is the Gianna Story... I am so happy to have my baby home and in her bed. All I can say is, I cannot believe how quickly things can go down hill. Thank you to everyone that has kept Gianna in your prayers. We appreciate every one of them! So here’s the story…if you wanna read...its longFriday night, Gianna started having a fever, Saturday I gave her Motrin and she was fine. She woke up from her nap and she started having the “croup” cough, sounding like a seal kinda cough. She was having a little noise when she was breathing in and out so that concerned me and I decided to take her to the ER. I went to one that I normally do not go to…thinking that it might be a shorter wait time. I got there at 5:30 and didn’t get seen till almost 8:30. I was taken to the back where we sat in a chair for almost an hour before I had to call the nurse to have her check her oxygen level because I thought she was not breathing right. She was sleeping. But snoring really loud. She doesn’t normally snore at all. Well her oxygen was fine. They eventually gave her a breathing treatment (one that is normally given for croup, not like asthma) And they tried to give her a steroid by mouth and she may have swallowed a fourth of it, if that. 3 hours later…the doctor listened to her..said she sounded a little tight or wet but that her oxygen was fine so We were discharged at 12am. With a diagnosis of croup and a prescription for steroids. Took her home..put her to bed. About 2 hours later she was up crying and was making a lot of noise trying to breath. I took her to the bathroom with the hot shower running.., didn’t help…then outside to breath in some cool air…didn’t help. So I then decided to take her back to the ER..but I took her to the one I normally go to. I get there about 4-4:30am they register her and take her oxygen…still good. As she sits there struggling to breath. Then they take her right back the ER which was empty. The Dr took one look at her chest/stomach and said…she is very sick, she will be admitted. As they keep observing her, she is getting tired of struggling to breath every breath. Her heart rate was 202, She vomited and then She started to fall asleep and was becoming incoherent. They started calling for the pediatric crash cart and called the rapid response team. They called for the anesthesia team and then They had to put a tube down her throat before her body just gave up. They gave her 2 IVs and also a tube down her nose. Before I knew it she was being loaded onto a helicopter being transported to the children’s hospital in VA. Admitted to PICU at CHKD at about 7am. Where she was on a ventilator for the next 48 hours. They did a surgery where they put a scope down her throat to determine where the swelling was coming from. Tuesday morning they took the tube out and she has been breathing on her own since. They are now saying that she also has Pneumonia. She is slowly getting better and is waking up for short periods and drinking her milk.
Can you imagine...after watching your baby in PICU for 3 days, you are allowed to bring her home, and a flipping plane hits you....WTF!!!
Well Melissa and Walt, we love you and wish we could be closer to cupcake!! Thanks for letting her be in our life, being her god parents mean the world to us.
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Wish you could have been here too:(
So glad she is back to normal. Thanks so much for everything and just always being there for us. Gianna will always know who her God Mommy is and how much she loves her.
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