Archive for August, 2006

August 28, 2006

Aug 28th, 2006 by natalie | 0

The last couple of weeks have been rough for Natalie. It began on the 17th with some vomiting and wretching spells. We knew that the stomach bug was going around, but she didn’t look good. Tricia took her to Children’s that night, and luckily, they ran some blood work and found the problem. Her pancreas enzyme Lipase was extremely elevated. The normal range was 40 to 50, Natalie’s was over 9,000!

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August 12, 2006

Aug 12th, 2006 by natalie | 0

Natalie has been doing really well since the last update. She has graduated from the Perlman Center at Children’s Hospital. She is getting ready to start first grade too! She did give us a scare, however, when one morning she began to gag and aspirated. She had quit breathing and we had to call a squad to transport her to the hospital. We spent five days in the hospital with her, and the doctors determined she had pancreatitis. She also had pneumonia, and was treated for that with no complications.

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