Sunday, February 15, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Arrangements for Faith Michelle Dell
Visitation and service will be held at
Casterline Funeral Home in Downtown Northville
122 Dunlap Street
Northville, Mi 48167
248-349-0611
Visitation
Thursday February 12th
5pm - 8 pm
Service
Friday February 13th
10 am
Maps and directions can be found at the Casterline website: www.casterlinefuneralhome.com
In lieu of flowers we request donations be made to any childrens charity in Faith's name or to the TTTS foundation. The link to the TTTS foundation is http://www.tttsfoundation.org
Thank again to everyone.
Love Todd and Michelle
Casterline Funeral Home in Downtown Northville
122 Dunlap Street
Northville, Mi 48167
248-349-0611
Visitation
Thursday February 12th
5pm - 8 pm
Service
Friday February 13th
10 am
Maps and directions can be found at the Casterline website: www.casterlinefuneralhome.com
In lieu of flowers we request donations be made to any childrens charity in Faith's name or to the TTTS foundation. The link to the TTTS foundation is http://www.tttsfoundation.org
Thank again to everyone.
Love Todd and Michelle
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Sad Day
Hello all,
Once again I wish we had better news. Faith passed today at 3:20am.
The last several weeks Faith has been struggling. Her condition began to worsen further Thursday and continued into Friday. Friday afternoon she seemed to get better and was resting comfortably. We even planned to have her sent back to Hutzel hospital. Things took a turn late Friday and into Saturday. The doctors had to revive her three times. After giving it her all, she passed peacefully while we held her.
We can never begin to express our gratitude to everyone for the thoughts, compassion, prayers, gifts, and assistance. We learned so much from that little girl and all of you. She is now at peace.
God bless everyone. We feel very proud to know she has touched so many lives even though many of you have never met her.
Faith will always be our child, teacher, blessing, guardian angel, and sister.
Love
Todd, Michelle, Parker, Ashleigh, and Faith
We will post information on services soon.
Once again I wish we had better news. Faith passed today at 3:20am.
The last several weeks Faith has been struggling. Her condition began to worsen further Thursday and continued into Friday. Friday afternoon she seemed to get better and was resting comfortably. We even planned to have her sent back to Hutzel hospital. Things took a turn late Friday and into Saturday. The doctors had to revive her three times. After giving it her all, she passed peacefully while we held her.
We can never begin to express our gratitude to everyone for the thoughts, compassion, prayers, gifts, and assistance. We learned so much from that little girl and all of you. She is now at peace.
God bless everyone. We feel very proud to know she has touched so many lives even though many of you have never met her.
Faith will always be our child, teacher, blessing, guardian angel, and sister.
Love
Todd, Michelle, Parker, Ashleigh, and Faith
We will post information on services soon.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Update 1-25
Hello all,
We wish we had better news. Shortly after our previous post, Faith's condition began to worsen. We went from the anxiety and excitement of her homecoming to talk of surgery, dialysis, and eventual kidney transplant.
Faith's kidney function has declined. and she has started to retain fluid. She is not peeing well and her creatinine and BUN are up. The excess fluid is hindering her breathing, so she has been reintibated. Her condition has deteriorated to the point where she is having severe bronchial spasms that cause her breathing and heart to stop. She has been resuscitated several times in the last few days. The cause of this change is not known. We are hoping the cause is an infection of some sort. That would likely allow her kidneys to improve again. The kidney specialists believe it to be just a worsening of her kidneys. We are to meet with them again in a day or two. It is likely they will be recommending Peritonneal Dialyis(PD) for her. There is a link on the main blog page describing the process. If the PD is started on her, she will be in the hospital for another 6-8 weeks minimum. The PD comes with many risks including infections and punctured bowel. She would also likely need the PD every day until she receives a kidney transplant. She cannot be put on the transplant list until she is one year old and 22 lbs.
We will try to keep you updated
Thank you for all the prayers.
Todd and Michelle
We wish we had better news. Shortly after our previous post, Faith's condition began to worsen. We went from the anxiety and excitement of her homecoming to talk of surgery, dialysis, and eventual kidney transplant.
Faith's kidney function has declined. and she has started to retain fluid. She is not peeing well and her creatinine and BUN are up. The excess fluid is hindering her breathing, so she has been reintibated. Her condition has deteriorated to the point where she is having severe bronchial spasms that cause her breathing and heart to stop. She has been resuscitated several times in the last few days. The cause of this change is not known. We are hoping the cause is an infection of some sort. That would likely allow her kidneys to improve again. The kidney specialists believe it to be just a worsening of her kidneys. We are to meet with them again in a day or two. It is likely they will be recommending Peritonneal Dialyis(PD) for her. There is a link on the main blog page describing the process. If the PD is started on her, she will be in the hospital for another 6-8 weeks minimum. The PD comes with many risks including infections and punctured bowel. She would also likely need the PD every day until she receives a kidney transplant. She cannot be put on the transplant list until she is one year old and 22 lbs.
We will try to keep you updated
Thank you for all the prayers.
Todd and Michelle
Monday, January 5, 2009
Happy New Year!
It's here!!!!!
This is the e-mail you have all been waiting for. The discharge plan process has been started for Faith. She should be coming home in the next couple weeks. She looks absolutely amazing! Her color is great, she is focusing and extremely social. She weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces. She is currently on the nasal cannula with an 1/8 of a liter flow and 21 % O2. They are trying to wean her to room air and so far she is tolerating all her weans and maintaining good PH levels and Co2 levels. Her kidney function has leveled out with her creatinine at 1.2 as of today. The doctors are working on a plan for how often she will need to be seen for labs and follow ups as well as what her diet will need to be. She isn't nippling very well so she will come home with the feeding tube so Todd and I have to learn how to put it in and start the feeding.
Ashleigh is doing great. She weighs 10 pounds 8 ounces. She loves to stand and is still daddy's girl! She smiles all the time, loves her swing and is already sleeping 6 straight hours during the night! Such a change for us since Parker was an awful sleeper.
We are very excited our whole family will be together soon. Thank you so much for all your thoughts and prayers. They have been answered.
Our love to all of you!!
Todd and Michelle
This is the e-mail you have all been waiting for. The discharge plan process has been started for Faith. She should be coming home in the next couple weeks. She looks absolutely amazing! Her color is great, she is focusing and extremely social. She weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces. She is currently on the nasal cannula with an 1/8 of a liter flow and 21 % O2. They are trying to wean her to room air and so far she is tolerating all her weans and maintaining good PH levels and Co2 levels. Her kidney function has leveled out with her creatinine at 1.2 as of today. The doctors are working on a plan for how often she will need to be seen for labs and follow ups as well as what her diet will need to be. She isn't nippling very well so she will come home with the feeding tube so Todd and I have to learn how to put it in and start the feeding.
Ashleigh is doing great. She weighs 10 pounds 8 ounces. She loves to stand and is still daddy's girl! She smiles all the time, loves her swing and is already sleeping 6 straight hours during the night! Such a change for us since Parker was an awful sleeper.
We are very excited our whole family will be together soon. Thank you so much for all your thoughts and prayers. They have been answered.
Our love to all of you!!
Todd and Michelle
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Sorry for the long delay on updates.
Ashleigh is doing well. She is over 10lbs and as you can see she has a beautiful smile.
Faith has been stable and improving on the ventilator. She's 7lbs. Her kidney and liver function have improved. We hope to have her home some time in February.
They both will have their challenges moving forward, but we are very hopeful.
Thank you all for the well wishes, prayers, and support. Some day we will thank you all personally.
Have a great Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Festivus, or what ever you may celebrate at this time of the year.
Love
Todd, Michelle, Parker, Ashleigh, and Faith
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Update Dec.2
I wish this was a good update however it's not. The past week has been terrible for us. Last Monday Ashleigh developed a rash around her vaginal region that looked initially like diaper rash. As the day progressed, it got redder and more puffy and she also developed a low grade fever. I got her into the Dr. Tuesday morning and was told it was probably contact dermatitis however that didn't explain the fever. The Dr. did a CBC and her white blood cell count was normal. The Dr. asked if I was comfortable waiting for a day to see if it got any better and treat it with Aquaphor. She advised if I wasn't comfortable with that I could take her to the hospital to have them do a CBC and blood culture. Going with mother's intuition that something wasn't right, I took her to the hospital and 20 minutes after getting home the Dr. called and said her count was 30.2 which is extremely elevated and we need to get her to the hospital ER right away. Todd took her to Beaumont and she was admitted Tuesday night. She was diagnosed with cellulitis and is on an antibiotic. They released her from the hospital Wednesday evening. She seems to be doing well, the redness is gone however now I'm concerned she may have a yeast infection. She does continue to gain weight and as of last week she is 8 lbs 9 ozs.
As for Faith, she was reintubated again on Saturday. Her blood gas showed her CO2 level at 100
%, she was extremely puffy and retracting very hard. To be honest, she looked terrible when we got there to see her. She was on 95% O2 with a high rate and pressure. She has been weened significantly since then however we got a call this morning that she self extibated 2 times over night. I'm currently waiting on a call back from the nurse to tell me how it all unfolded. They are in the middle of rounds right now. Todd and I have requested a meeting with all her Dr.'s on Friday. Ashleigh will be with us and maybe we can get the girls a little time together.
I also wanted to let you all know WORLD TTTS FOUNDATION AWARENESS DAY is Dec. 7th. Here is the website to get more educated http://www.tttsfoundation.org. I put a phone call into the woman that runs the foundation this morning. Todd and I think we need a second opinion on Faith's treatment since she just doesn't seem to be getting any better. I will also probably set up a page on the website for Ashleigh and Faith.
Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and support.
Love,
Michelle
As for Faith, she was reintubated again on Saturday. Her blood gas showed her CO2 level at 100
%, she was extremely puffy and retracting very hard. To be honest, she looked terrible when we got there to see her. She was on 95% O2 with a high rate and pressure. She has been weened significantly since then however we got a call this morning that she self extibated 2 times over night. I'm currently waiting on a call back from the nurse to tell me how it all unfolded. They are in the middle of rounds right now. Todd and I have requested a meeting with all her Dr.'s on Friday. Ashleigh will be with us and maybe we can get the girls a little time together.
I also wanted to let you all know WORLD TTTS FOUNDATION AWARENESS DAY is Dec. 7th. Here is the website to get more educated http://www.tttsfoundation.org. I put a phone call into the woman that runs the foundation this morning. Todd and I think we need a second opinion on Faith's treatment since she just doesn't seem to be getting any better. I will also probably set up a page on the website for Ashleigh and Faith.
Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and support.
Love,
Michelle
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