Folks, this is from one of my buds in the Battlecruiser forum, the daughter of one of his friend needs all the help she can get. If any of you have any medical info or friends that may lend a hand please, e-mail me at tac@cfl.rr.com . Ive deleted the last portion of the letter, as it says what room she's in, but she is in Corpus Christi , TX.
"By now I'm sure everyone has heard all sorts of
stories in all sorts of ways about my daughter and
what we're going through right now! I had to come in
tonight to take care of a few things around Cuero-way,
and spend some time with my boys. What I went through
today and the past few weeks I wouldn't wish on even
the worst of enemies. Kathy is six years old for some
of you who may not know us to well. She came down with
a strange and so far, unknown virus the week of
Thanksgiving. She's had vomiting, excrussive
headaches, back, neck, & leg aches. We have been to
San Antonio to a specialist and he performed an
endoscopy on her last week to find that her throat,
stomach, and intestines were full of ulcers. Saturday
night she had stroke like symptoms and was transported
to Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi
where she spent a few days in PICU. We were moved onto
the floor in a regular room day before last. She has
had initially the endoscopy and bi-opsies of her
stomach and small intestine, a cat scan, mri/mra, two
spinal taps (the second today), more sticks and pokes
with the needle than a swarm of bees could give ya! So
forth and so on... We are still in the fog about what
is going on, they have brought in an infectious
disease specialist to help, with his team, find out
what is going on. Her white blood count is very high,
she has pressure on the brain, her optic nerves in
both eyes are swollen, the eeg showed abnormal brain
waves on the left side of her brain and now they have
ordered the second mri/mra series on her and a new set
of cultures. The best we could get out of this new Dr.
today was she has a fungus type of meningitis. It will
take several days for him to determine which strand of
the virus it is. Supposed to be hundreds of different
types. Anyway, so we are still not certain as to the
why's and what for's yet. The wait and watching her
suffer are a tremendous stress, to be so helpless in a
situation which we can only give to God and pray
about! I wanted you to hear it straight from me and
right now that is the best and most I can tell you
all."
And the next day my friend posted this:
"Here's the scoop, Kathy is NOT getting any better and the Doctors cannot seem to figure out what is wrong with her.
They are saying Fungal meningitus, she has swelling of the brain, ulcers in her stomach intestine etc, and she is in EXTREME pain.
I need all the help I can get here guys, If anyone and I mean anyone knows anything about such a disease, or knows someone who does, please contact me ASAP. We need to get her help QUICK, she is in BAD shape and I mean BAD!!!"
