She had to have an IV in her arm right away. She had some blood work done and it came back with elevated white blood cell count. She was also running a pretty high fever. These two symptoms indicated a slight infection somewhere. She was started on a saline solution through the IV.
After she had been on the IV for about 12 hours, 3:00am Saturday morning, she sat straight up in her bed and said, " Mommy, I need apple juice!" Those were her first intelligible words in days and days.
Dr. Haddad came in and looked at her blood work on Friday evening, then looked and both of us and said, "I am glad she is here!" He said that her electrolytes, potassium, calcium, etc... had all bottomed out. She literally had nothing left!
After a few days on IV and apple juice, she began sitting up on her on. Neil brought her tea set up to the hospital and she, Claire and Neil had a tea party. It was so cute!
This big pink teddy bear was brought up to the hospital by Ms. Julie from Sunday School! She brought her a pretty pink teddy bear, some pretty carolers, and a pink rose. Ms. Julie held Neilie's hand and prayed for her.
It was so sweet. Thank you Ms. Julie.
Neilie is now home and doing better. We are praying she never gets that sick again. It was just awful seeing my baby so sick. She is a trooper and really pulled through.
One evening, Dr. Berry was in there to check on her. As he was leaving, she said, "Dr. Berry... you have really cool stuff in your pockets!" The nurses said that made his year! They said he was out there talking about how cute that little girl in 620 is!
3 comments:
Oh I prayed so hard for that sweet little one! I'm so glad our Lord is faithful, because I just love my family TOO MUCH! So glad she's home and now I finally feel ready for Christmas...we just weren't going to have it without yall!
We have been out of town didn't know, so glad Neilie is better and at home.
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We first heard about Neilie Monday while we were headed to Tenn. We all prayed for her and your family. It was so hard for me to see how sick she was in those pictures because when I was over for dinner she was such a lively little one! I hope all goes well for Christmas at your house! Love You ~Ashley~
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