And then she was ill--updated

It was February when she became ill. She had a fever, and instinct said to not wait but to take her in. The whirl of activity--the doctor listening to her chest for too long...the nurse hooking her up to an O2 sat sensor...the doctor sending us off for xrays...the radiologist and pulmonologist checking her in the hallway...me protesting I was sure she hadn't swallowed something...a terrified call to N....driving back to our doctor...


...where we found out her heart was on the right side of her chest and something very large was where her left lung ought to have been. That terrible weekend of waiting to see if antibiotics would take down the fever and clear out infection...Monday, watching our doctor pick up the telephone calling for a surgical consult.


...and then finding ourselves in the nightmare of watching our child being rushed from the CT room to the OR, on a stretcher, while being bagged....and receiving the news that Lou had a congenital cystic adematoid malformation (a CCAM cyst) and that she would die without an operation...and could die while in the operation.

Updated to add--Lou is OK now. She pulled through it all (but it's a long story). I just want to make sure readers know that this is not happening now. I am telling her story for the first time which is turning out to be a very healing thing to do.