anothermiracle

August 6, 2003 A day I will never forget. I came so close to loosing my AngelButterfly. I noticed when we got home for school she seem really tired and her breathing just wasn't right.
I watched her for a couple of hours and decided I would go ahead and take her to the Dr. I figured she had a sinus infection or strep both very common in her life. When the Triage nurse examined her she sent her to a room immediately. They did do a strep screen and also a chest x-ray. I wondered why on earth they were doing that. It was just a little bit the Dr came in and told me she had pneumonia and her right lung was collapsed and her chest cavity around the lung was filled with fluid and they were admitting her.
You could have knock me over with a feather. I called my husband as quick as I could. He works just accross the street from the hospital he was floored too. The next day was filled with test.
Because even though her chest x-ray looked like pneumonia she didn't have any of the symptoms. She was so sick from the contrast she had to drink for the CT scan.she could keep nothing on her stomach and they would not give her any fluids due the all the fluid that was around her lungs. And that is when the true worrying began.That night the nurse came and told me she had a huge blood clot low in the Inferior Vena Cava. She was started on a Heparin drip. And was put on strict bedrest. . And at this time my worrying escalated. They took her down to x-ray for the radiologist to try and remove the fluid from and around her lung. One so they could do test to see what it was and they said the longer her lung was collapse the more damage it was doing it the lung.The radiologist refused to do it because the clot showed up in her upper abdomen.
With this news, I was beginning to panic. I was first told it was very low and now it was high. I could just see it going to her heart or lung and I knew from my nursing expirences. That she would be gone. I felt like my whole world was crushing on me. So they took her back to her room.
They gave her some medicine to help her relax and she went off to sleep. Darrell and Me were terrified to even touch her for fear we would make the clot move. That night the nurse caring for her came in to do her vital signs.
And she asked me if I wanted Beth resuscitated should something happen. I almost feel out of my chair and could not even speak for a few minutes. And I told her I wanted everything that could possibly be done for my daughter. I been through several things in my lifetime. But, there is nothing to compare to knowing your child could go at any minute. You feel so helpless.
I think I was in shock half the time. I felt like my heart was coming out of my chest. It hurt so bad. Beth is my best friend as well as my daughter. You see me you see her.
Things were going from bad to worse.
I spent half my time setting in the floor outside Beth's room crying and begging God not to take her. Things kinda rock on for a day or two and I didn' t feel like anything was really being done for her. So, Saturday night Beth was sleeping and Darrell was in there with her. I was walking the halls. I stopped my the Nurse's station and ask Beth's nurse if the Dr was waiting on Beth to die. And she assured me that he was not. Soon as I left she called Beth's Dr. And he told her to tell us he would be there Sunday morning to discuss
options with us. He did at this point they still thought she had pneumonia, and the huge clot,but did not know why her lung was collapsed and what was causing the fluid in her chest but was suppecting a piece of the clot had broken loose and went to her lung.
We ask him about going to Atlanta and he agreed that she should go.And that he would have us set up to go to Atlanta by 6:00pm the next day And he also said for us not to be afraid we was going to do something to make the clot move. So that night Darrell and Me got her in the tub and gave her a good bath and washed her hair and pampered til she was give out. By 10:00 the next day everything was set up for us to go to Emory.
But, he wanted Darrell and me to come to his office to talk to him before we left. so we did.
He tried to reassure us that since she had lived through the clot going to her lung it wasn't her time and she was going to be ok.That God had left her here for reason.
That was his personal opinion.
We left his office and went back and packed up to go to Emory. The ambulance was there by 11:00. They let me ride in the ambulance with them but I had to sit up front they would not let me ride back there with her. So, I talked to her through their little window so she would know I was there. I think that was the longest trip to Atlanta I have ever been. The Plan when we left Carrollton was to go to Emory and have a screen or umbrella put in so the clot could not get to her heart or lungs. When we got there and the Dr's explained the procedure to us it didn't sound all that good. It had major fall backs and was permament.
So we spent another sleepness night trying to come to grips on what we should do.
It would keep this clot from getting to her heart but other clots could form on top on it and the screen did sometimes clogged up.
The next day Ken brought the CT scans from Carrollton that plainly showed the clot. The Dr.s had schedule another ultrasound for that day. And they would find nothing. They did ultrasound of her whole body and found no clots. Darrell and Me sat down and cried, because the clot was gone. God has that clot in his hand where it could do no harm to our Beth. God had given us a miracle. She is having to take Coumadin. Which is very scary for me. And I still can't hardly let her out of my site. But the most important thing is:
Beth is Alive!

My advice to anyone taking Birth Control pills. Be very careful. They almost took my daughter. I thought I was doing something good for her by making her periods easier. But, instead look what they did.