My Kilometres for Kids challenge is dedicated to the celebration of my daughter, Selah
I’m taking on an epic challenge this March – and I would love support.
I’m taking on a month-long fitness challenge, Kilometres for Kids, to help keep Starship’s National Air Ambulance flying to children across the country who are critically ill or injured.
If you can, please donate to help me raise money for this incredible service, the only flying Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Aotearoa. It’s on call 24/7 – and a specialist flight crew can be in the air in a matter of minutes.
Donate now to help save the lives of Kiwi kids.
My Activity Progresss
My Goal
17.7km
50km
Fundraising progress
Raised
My Goal
$0
$150
My Achievements
Fundraising page
Updated Profile Pic
Added a Blog Post
Received 5 Donations
Reached Goal
Increased Target
My Updates
Selah's story
Monday 2nd Mar At 14 days old my beautiful daughter Selah was taken to hospital with having a bunch of symptoms like not feeding, floppy, pale, blank stare and grunting.Arrived at the hospital at 3am in the morning rushed into ED introduced to multiple nurses and doctors. They performed an X-ray which showed that her bowels looked twisted which required surgery. While waiting to be transfered to starship ship hospital we got out into ICU where they gave her morphine for the pain. She stopped breathing for 5-10 seconds at a time while they were administering it so they hit the emergency bell and a lot of different nurses and doctors came rushing in. The had to intubate her cause she couldn't breath in her own.
Left for starship hospital around 1pm in the afternoon via starship aeroplane from Tauranga to Auckland. Got to Starship around 4.
Once she got to Starship she had to go in for ultrasounds and X-rays to determine if she needed surgery. The results from that were unclear so at around 9pm they took her in for tummy surgery to do a general clean out of her belly and make sure that her bowels were not twisted..
She came out of surgery in much better condition nothing was twisted and they cleaned all the puss out of her belly.
I found out the next day that what Selah had was invasive group A Streptococcal. Very rare in babies and just an unfortunate thing that she caught.
After that they caught on via another X-ray that there was a blood clot in her portal vein going to her liver. She was on Heprin to try break it down and stop it from growing. After many many more ultrasounds the doctors found that the Heprin did not break it down but it did stop it from growing which is good.
Selah was at starship for 16 days before being transfered back to Tauranga hospital to carry on the care plan that starship made which is clexaine injections for the next 3 months with an ultrasound at the end.
She remained in Tauranga hospital 11 days before being allowed to go home under the same care plan
Share
