The 6 year old daughter of 2 of my co-workers is in pediatric ICU fighting for her life. Last Tuesday night, Rose told her mom that her head hurt and then she collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital by ambulance & underwent emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm. A malformed blood vessel (or group of vessels) in her brain burst.
Please pray for Rose she is not improving as much as the doctors had hoped. Today they did a new CAT scan - it revealed no new bleeding or other malformed blood vessels in her brain - those are good things!. But the scan revealed that Rose's brain is still swelled more than they thought it would be.
Her mom & dad are taking turns at the hospital, as they have 2 older children. The hospital is excellent & has a machine that measures the oxygen getting to her brain- very few hospitals apparently have a machine of this caliber. She is still sedated, unconscious and in critical but stable condition.
Her numbers, mainly the key inter-cranial pressure, have been running a little bit high today, but doctors say the ICP is within range of what they want. Ideally, the IPC wants to be around 15, but anything between 5 and 25 is acceptable.
Rose is a sweet little girl she loves to dance, go to Disney World & play with her family's 2 weimaraners. Rose had beautiful dark long hair past her waist. A nurse was nice enough to help the family donate Rose's hair to Locks of Love - 20 inches worth of hair. The nurse braided some for the family to keep and is sending the rest for the company to make a wig for a cancer victim.
I am praying that somehow there is still a miracle that Rose can be the same little girl. I know God has a plan for this family.
