A Summery of Allyson's Current Hospital Stay.

After 1 month and 3 days at Primary Children's Medical Center, Ally is finally home. She is doing very well. She is on oxygen 247 and has a feeding tube. She also has 3 medications she is on. Laysix, Seldenifil(Viagra), and prevacid. Friday Feb. 5th Ally had a really bad cold. So I went to her doctor to see if I should be worried. He was worried about her breathing. She was breathing 100 times per minute. He told us to go to Primary Children's just to make sure she didn't have RSV. We got there and ER did a x-ray of her chest. Threw the x-ray we found that her Diaphragmatic Hernia Patch had pulled away again. This would be the 3rd repair and she wasn't even 1 year old yet. They scheduled the surgery for Saturday. The surgery was only supposed to be 3 hours but ended up to be 5. During the surgery the surgeon had to call in another surgeon because the surgery was to complex. During the Surgery they had to get to her back so they had to deflate the Left Lung. After the surgery the surgeon came and discussed what happened. He told us about the other surgeon coming in and how hard it was. He also said on a scale of 1 to 10 of how severe her defect was, he said that she had a 9. She went to the PICU(Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) after surgery. She was only suppose to be there for 2 days to recover and then to the floor for more recovery. After the surgery her right lung collapsed. She was on full Life Support and we almost lost her. Two weeks past and she wasn't making any progress. The doctors had tried every thing they could think of. Thursday night the doctor came in and told us that they have been trying everything but it wasn't working. She said that Ally might not ever get better. She told us that we needed to start thinking about her quality of life. Josh and I Started balling. We called the family. Josh and my dad then gave her a blessing and we decided to open a fast for her. We had over 500 people fast for her. Most of them didn't know us. Sunday Night she started to make progress. Monday she was taken off Nitric Oxide. Wednesday she was extubated, and put on a high flow nasal cannula. Saturday Her 1st birthday she was moved to the 4th floor to recovery. Fasting is a miracle. Thank you all for this. Friday the next week Ally finally got to go home. It was short lived though. She started throwing up yellow and we went back to the hospital for another 2 days. Just a Stomach Bug. She came home Monday the 8th of March. I hope she stays for a long time.