PICU

Nicole has been miserable!!  It's been hard to find a smile.  They did another chest x-ray and it looks like she has pneumonia.  They are not sure what type she has, and they will probably run some more tests tomorrow.  There is a specific kind of pneumonia that goes with GVHD and they just want to be sure how to battle what is going on.  They also did an echo and her heart is working super hard.  I really do not understand all they were talking about it.  One of the concerns with the heart is all the chemo she has had.  They need to pull some fluid off her so they can understand more.  They felt today that she needed more support to help her battle all that is going on, so they sent her ICU this morning.  The bone marrow team admits that Nicole has them perplexed.   If Nicole is doing better tomorrow then they will do a CT scan. 

When David O. McKay was a young boy he learned the comfort of prayer:  “One night while his father was gone, David … heard noises around the house and felt sure there were burglars. He knew his mother would be frightened too if she heard [the noises], and he hoped that she would not. As he lay there wide awake, … he decided to do what his parents had taught him to do—pray. He had always said his prayers kneeling at his bedside, so he felt that now too he must get out of bed and kneel down to pray. Climbing out of bed was a terrible test; it took all his strength and willpower because he was so frightened. But he did it!

“As he knelt down by the side of the bed, he prayed earnestly and with real faith. Then, just as clearly as one person speaks aloud to another, he heard a voice say to him, ‘Don’t be afraid. Nothing will hurt you.’ David then climbed back into bed and fell fast asleep” (Marie F. Felt, “David: A Boy of Promise,” Instructor, Sept. 1969, p. 330).   (https://www.lds.org/manual/primary-2/lesson-8?lang=eng) I know we will also hear "noises" that frighten us from time to time.  Like President McKay, when we sincerely pray, we too feel the comfort we need from a loving Father in Heaven.

Nicole before we went to PICU.

 

Nicole with a CPAP machine.