They are finally sending me and my little girl home! It took 4 dialysis treatments, 3 blood transfusions, and a whole list of other random meds that they gave her, but they were able to get her kidney function back to "near" normal. We have to come back in two weeks for a follow-up.
I am a little worried about the blood transfusions and if she received blood from a donor who took the clot shot. Anyone have any idea if there is anyway to find out? Is there anything that can be done if she did receive clot shot blood?
Not for me, but for my little girl. She goes in for surgery in a little bit and then days of dialysis.
Please pray for her goats.
Update.
Prayers answered! Thank you goats. She pulled through the surgery and the first round of dialysis is going well.
But holy fucking shit, so many tubes going into and out of my girl. I broke down after she woke up from surgery and was so confused and we had to make her stay still so they could hook everything up. I don't wish this on any parent it was unbearable to see.
For those who want extra info I'm sharing to hopefully help someone else out.
My girl is 6. She got Ecoli from a under cooked hamburger at my dad's birthday BBQ. My brother in law was doing the grilling. We eat medium-ish burgers all the time, never any issue. Except this time.
2 days after the BBQ I and my girl got diarrhea. Nothing extreme. Two days after the onset of the diarrhea, I was fine. But my girl started vomiting. Two days later we got her into the pediatrician. They gave her some anti nausea meds and said fluids and rest-no testing was done. Gave her the meds for four days. No vomit for those four days. Cycle of the meds, everytime she'd eat she'd puke. Back to the pediatrician-same office, different doc, and she says get your ass to the ER. Local ER does blood work and within 30 minutes is asking us what specialty hospital we want to be sent to.
Apparently toxins from Ecoli being broken down in body can make the blood clot into a very fine mesh. Blood gets pushed through this mesh and literally shreds everything, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, everything. Your blood turns into just water. The anti nausea meds did nothing but conceal this condition getting worse. Kidneys usually go first since they filter the blood. That's what happened to my girl, acute Kidney failure. Docs are hopeful that given her age her kidney function will return and she will not need a transplant. Time will tell but everything is looking up, but we are going to have several days of dialysis at least.
So if you eat your burgers on the rarer side and some gets sick, please have your doctor run tests. This might have able to have been resolved with just meds if caught early.
PS this is the first time I've ever asked for prayers for anything. Driving by myself for 6 hours while my spouse and child flew un an air ambulance to the hospital was the longest drive of my life. Many many dark thoughts in my head, but in the dark thoughts a light of prayer was always still there.
Trying to figure out what the fuck happened early this morning around 5 am. All my ceiling fans that have a remote control and all the other lights in my house that have a remote all came on at the exact same time as if something pushed all the on buttons all at once. Anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The clocks on the stove and microwave weren't flashing so we didn't lose power, but something sure happened.
So from what can tell Juneteenth is a day to celebrate all the brave white men who bravely and naively fought to free the slaves from the jews. Is that about right?
