Hereby follows the UPDATES as they appeared on Facebook, by Chris (Jennifer's Dad) Dave (who has been supporting Chris every step of the way) and Liz (Dave's wife and fellow Dagda). I think you will understand why this week, I think I have cried a bucket full of tears. Tears of sadness and great tears of joy. Both painful, but the one thing that has kept me going is the knowledge that SO MANY PEOPLE joined in with the mass healing and realised more than ever why, no matter what happens in the world, human kindness can move mountains and we are all connected!
A GREAT BIG thank you for everyone who came on board....and as we said on Thursday night....Same time next week???? :o)
Can I just say here, before you read this, that a week yesterday, Jennifer had, had, 2 cardiac arrests, had to be 'bagged' all the way to a second hospital 30 miles away as there were no dialysis machines at the hospital she was first admitted to, had multiple organ failure and 80% blisters over her body. Her mum and dad Chris and Lucy were told to expect the worst as the classed her as the sickest baby in the UK!!!!
My reply to the last update is below the diary of events and is pretty self explanatory I think :o)
Here follows a diary of updates:
Monday 13th, afternoon, Chris Freeman UPDATE: Right, the dialysis machine has just broken, BUT they have decided to keep her off it as it is what they intended to do a little later on. Again, she is responding very well so thank you very much for everyone's healing thoughts, prayers and everything else. Jennifer has people as far as Australia, America and most other countries looking over her and it really makes you proud to be alive when people from all over the world, some of which we don't even know, are doing their up for one little girl, so thank you all so so much.
Tuesday 14th, afternoon, Chris: (Jennifer's Dad) UPDATE : Not a lot has happened today so she is just getting better and better the plastic surgeons to give advice about skin care for the nurses and have taken pictures of her skin to look how to move forward's so will keep you all up dated 1's again thank you very much for all your support it is so much appreciated and is working very well so thank you thank you very much big love jennifer chris and lucy xxxx
Tuesday 14th, afternoon, Dave: Jennifer has been using her own kidneys since the machine broke yesterday, and after this mornings doctors meeting it was decided to remove the tubes to reconnect it to jennifer. This is good news as they obviously feel that her kidneys are currently up to doing their thing. She is still rated as "critical but stable" but at least for now , her kidneys may not be as damaged as the doctors first thought. Thank you everyone for you kind thoughts , please pass on the address to this page on any forums you may have posted on so that we can get everyone reading the updates on one page as it makes keeping you all focused. much love to you all BB Dangerous
Wednesday 15th, evening, Dave: Ok. Details of today. Please forgive me if this post is a little "rambling" but I haven’t really come down yet from all of the twitter news etc. (Got to say that twitter has made me feel old today... just cant get my head around it) One of the drugs that Jennifer is on is something to paralyse her. This is to stop her moving around too much. The problem with this drug is that it removes the ability for the doctors to see if Jennifer reacts to any stimuli. During the course of her treatment the doctors will lower the dose of this particular medicine to allow them to see if she reacts. Another reason for reducing this particular medicine in Jennifer s case is to allow her muscles to expand and contract (if only by minute amounts) which should allow more blood into them and more oxygen. This is designed to allow her body to flush itself of the septicaemia that is still there and hopefully reduce the amount of plastic surgery or skin grafts that will follow her recovery. Needless to say , today they reduced the medication just a bit and like the little dagda that she is, she has reacted. This is good news , but Chris and Lucy are both aware that she still has a long way to go and are not taking this situation for granted. Jennifer has opened her eyes, just a little bit, and other signs of her reacting to stimulus are that when Lucy kisses her, her blood pressure goes up EVERY TIME. I, when I went in to see her tonight also noticed some slight movement in her limbs & when I talked to her and explained that there were MANY people sending her love and strength her blood pressure went up. This happened several times, each time the monitor started beeping..... Disconcerting to me , but I was assured that it was OK. Again I must point out that this is just temporary , and she will be put back on the paralysis medicine soon now that the doctors are pleased with her progress so far. All that we can say is that the doctors are very pleased with her progress so far, her kidneys are so far working without the dialysis machine and she still has a very long way to go to recovery. However , when I left the hospital tonight both Chris and Lucy had smiles on their faces.
Thursday 16th, afternoon, Chris
UPDATE: Jennifer is going to be taken off the current breathing machine and is going to be placed on a normal respiratory. She is slowly coming to as the paralysis drugs wear off properly. Jennifer is now aware of people being there and can recognise our voices. Thank you again all so much for everything that you have been doing from every corner of the world.
UPDATE: They have taken Jennifer off the ventilator, and removed the tube from her throat.. 15 mins after this had been done, Baby Jennifer was trying to kiss mum and dad(chris and lucy) she has also been trying to speak, but is a little hard, as her throat is sore from the tubes....
My instant responce was
OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!!!! Latest update about BABY JENNIFER! And I don't know whether to LAUGH, CRY, SCREAM or SHOUT....so I think I'll do them all!!!!! Thank You from the bottom of my heart for all the 38 million people who joined in with the MASS HEALING for Jennifer! This is truly awesome and beyond any one's wildest dreams! Rock on little DAGDA Princess! You have been well and truly loved to ...pieces! Bloody amazing is what I say! Now that's what I call MAGIC! xxx
And lastly And a personal note from the guy who just wanted to contact a few friends:
one week ago today i had a message that jennifer had been taken into hospital so like anybody would my first thought was what can i do to help i'm not a healer but i know a lot of people who are so i started to get in touch with every one i knew who was ( maybe 10-15 people) and started posting on FB after a day or so i started this group to try to centralise all the posting and information we ...had from the initial 20 people i invited ( the FB limit) over 700 more have joined with one goal - sending healing to jennifer and the response has been - well i just dont have the words to describe how i feel the poems, the pics, the rituals, the solo workings done by people of every path is truly humbling and i would like to thank each and every one of you for every thing you have done while we are not out of the woods yet i think its looking good ( juice ! )i said at the start that i would count any help as a personal favour so feel free to call on me if you need a favour returning its my turn to be there for you thank you all aus
Now.....will you take a minute to visit the following link http://www.meningitis-trust.org/about-us/campaigns/education-campaign/make-a-difference/
1 comment:
That is amazing sue... just reading this so missed the 'emergency' stage. Sending my thoughts as she recovers & to her family xo
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