shayla: June 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

UpDate

Shayla is doing soo good she playing alot more and is making lots of noise all the time now it is great. we get to move this weekend to my great granddads property out in Eden which will be nice it is about an acre in a half so lots of space and nice and quiet and we will be out of my moms place and in our own even though it is kinds small it will work for the three of us just fine for now. She is getting better with the O2 she is able to have it out more and kinda keep her O2 up on her own she still drops but most of time she can get it back up on her own. She is so cute and is getting so big and smart i might add she knows how to get attention very much so. once i get some pictures i will post them i know i keep saying that but i will as soon as i have them.

with love the Wilson family

Monday, June 15, 2009

We are home once again

Her gj went great she they started feeding through it Friday and we left Saturday. We will go back in the next 4-6 months to have it replaced for one that is more flush with the skin so hopefully we can just do it with her heart cath in December. she is doing so good she is just progressing so fast it is weird. Dr law keeps telling me how amazed he is with her and where she is right now no one ever thought that she would be as far as she is. once i get some pictures i will post them on here.

with love the Wilson family

Thursday, June 11, 2009

her GJ tube

She got her GJ tube today it went great she is doing really good with it so far for the most part she is really fussy this afternoon but i don't blame her because people wont stop messing with her at all. they say that we should be out of here Saturday and home so we will see how that one goes as long as we are able to start putting feeds through the tube tomorrow everything should be fine so i will know more then. that's really all for now not much else to report with her besides that and she is almost off her ativan for the first time in a year in and a half.

with love the Wilson family

Monday, June 1, 2009

a little update

Shayla is doing great she has learned how to get herself out of her wedge so we now have to use the buckles that they put on them to keep her in she has also learned how to lift her bottom up of the ground and move around the floor some she is also making noises now. We fly back to seattle again next week to have a gj tube placed on the 11th we get in on the 10th and we check her into the hospital. Today she did run a fever so called the doctors and they said that alot of their kids have been running fevers and to just give her tylonal and ride it out unless she starts looking punky and she looks great still the only thing is coughing some but that is it. It has been great being home i am more relaxed then i ever was in seattle. Not much else is going on here we miss everyone there.

With love the Wilson family

Shayla's Story

Shayla R. Wilson was born November 5th of 2007. While pregnant with her I was told that she had a defect called atrial septal defect (left side of heart was bigger than her right) she also was born with one kidney. After shayla was born we were in the NICU for exactly 1 wk when we left the hospital her pda (something all babies are born with) was closing about a week after we went home it actually shot back open so we ended up in the hospital we got out almost a week later and then we flew to Seattle children’s hospital to have the pda legated.Once that was done we went home and she was doing good for about 2 weeks she had started gaining on average 3ozs a day which is not good for babies our pediatrician kept telling me that it was fine and she was fine even though I knew it didn't seem right on December 16th we took her to the er because she was really fussy hadn't slept in 24hrs really and wouldn't eat when they looked at her they said that all she had was gas and that they weren't going to admit her "yet" is what the doctor told us on December 19th they admitted her to the hospital her o2 stats were only about 30 percent once we were admitted they had given her blood and she had gotten her o2 back up but she would still desat to about 69 percent and she was suppose to stay between 75 and 85 percent we stayed in the twin falls hospital tell December 30th even though they weren't doing anything we couldn't have done at home they released her with o2 blow by and we were told we had to go to Boise they next day while in twin falls they also told us that a baby should only gain 1 ounce to a ounce and a half a day so I fired her pediatrician and got another one.When we got to the Boise hospital we got admitted there so her cardiologist could keep a close eye on her. While at that hospital she got RSV and ended up on the ventilator. So we had to push back coming to Seattle for the surgery that she needed which was a BT shunt and a av valve repair to try and fix the whole in her heart we got released from Boise on January 17th but we couldn't go home we stayed at the Ronald McDonald house in Boise until we flew out on January 20 and then we would go to Seattle and be admitted and they were going to do the surgery on January 22nd. On January 22nd we were told that they couldn't do her surgery because her lungs were still inflamed from the rsv she had gotten in Boise we were released from Seattle tell the 30th which was when they would do they surgery we didn't make it out tell then we were discharged on January 24th and back in January 26th I had taken her to the er because once again she hadn't slept and was really fussy and I did everything that I could to try to keep her calm and nothing I would do would work they admitted her that night and I went back to the hotel after she finally got a room at 12am they called me at 5am telling me she was fussy and just wouldn't calm down the only thing I knew to tell them was that that was why I had brought her back and to give her lasix (a diuretics) cause I knew she also had a lot of fluid on board at 8am they called and told me she had coded and they had to put her on the ventilator I rushed to the hospital and I knew it wasn't good I got there and they told me that she had gotten worse and that they needed to get her surgery done which I could have told them but they didn't want to listen when I was telling them of course what do I know! They took her back for surgery on January 30th 2008 for the av valve repair and BT shunt. We stayed on the ventilator for 8 weeks when we finally got down to the normal floor and out of the icu about a week after we got down there she crashed and had to be put back on the ventilator from then on we continued to fight with the ventilator we were on and off a lot.On July 2nd we almost lost shayla she had gotten a really bad infection that showed up in 3 hours we tried to get her to purk up for 8 hours we had actually signed papers to let the doctors put her on life support thank god about an hour after they got back there they came out and told us that they sliced her leg and put in an arterial line and she perked up so we avoided the life support. After those things seemed to be getting better but we were still on the ventilator no matter what we did nothing seemed to work to get her off of it.In November she got really sick again she had a fever of 107 for at least 24hrs and we couldn’t figure out where it came from the next thing that we knew she started having seizures. They put her on a med to control the seizures and finally after 48hrs the fevers stopped somewhat. They couldn’t figure out why any of this happened they did a spinal tap and saw that there was some white blood cells in her fluid and you’re not supposed to have any so they think she had a mild case of spinal meningitis also they told us at this time that because of a stroke that she had way back in February that she was more likely that she will have seizures so she will be on this seizure medication for the rest of her life. During this she also had gotten inactivated on the transplant list. A week or so later everything was somewhat normal and they put her back on the transplant list. A week after that she got a HEART on December 9th of 2008.She had a rough time after her heart transplant but she made it through everything and is doing good today and she is off the ventilator but she is still on what they call a bipap that just pushes pressure into her lungs. Everything is good and we are actually expected to be out of the hospital within a month maybe a little longer.

With love the Wilson Family

shayla

Thursday, June 25, 2009

UpDate

Monday, June 15, 2009

We are home once again

Thursday, June 11, 2009

her GJ tube

Monday, June 1, 2009

a little update

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