Re: Re: My niece in the fire

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

God Bless all of you, Heidi.  Keep the faith, she will be all right, in
spite of the terrible torture she's enduring now.  The little one will,
too.  Kids have an amazing propensity for healing and learning.

Prayers are with you, still.

Cel

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> From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com
> To: tondi313@yahoo.com; PNER@onelist.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:   Re:  My niece in the fire
> Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 6:49 PM
> 
> In a message dated 7/11/00 4:15:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> tondi313@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> << Please accept my condolenscences (sp?) and prayers for
>  a good outcome.  Don't take this the wrong way, but
>  Andrea now needs the kind of attention we have been
>  discussing for our mounts:  loads of electrolytes,
>  amino acids and more calories and fluids than you can
>  believe a human being can consume.  As soon as she can
>  comprehend her situation, she needs to be informed and
>  supported intensely, if she is to recover. >>
> 
> Thanks, Sheila--and no "wrong way" about it--the levels of fluids that go

> into burn victims are astronomical, etc.  
> 
> An update: She is off the respirator (yay!) but still not able to talk
much, 
> and still does not seem to comprehend quite where she is or why.  She
suffers 
> from claustrophobia and aquaphobia--difficult for one who is trussed up
in 
> bandages, and subjected to debriding baths twice daily.  (She is
especially 
> having trouble with the latter, I gather.)  She seemed to have a fear
that 
> she had lost her feet, but someone lifted them up one at a time to show
her, 
> and that calmed that.  She will try to remove the bandages from her hands
if 
> left unattended--likely also a fear reaction to some degree, and of more 
> concern, as her hands ARE badly damaged.  Her first skin graft was
scheduled 
> for today--I have not yet heard how it went--but they planned to do a
major 
> graft onto her right arm.  The burn unit people are terrific--they take 
> e-mails addressed to her, and print them down, and read them to her--and
she 
> responds very positively to that.  They also sent home a doll for her
2-1/2 
> year old daughter that represents "mommy"--and they instruct my sister
how to 
> show little Emmy on the doll what is happening to mommy (bandages, etc.)
so 
> that she does not feel left out of the loop.  (I think I mentioned--her 
> little girl was witness to all that went on with my niece when she got
out of 
> the fire--her mommy lying there burned ["dirty owies"], the first aid
["two 
> towels on mommy"], and the EMT's working on her prior to going into the 
> ambulance ["scarey guys"].  She still has nightmares, muttering in her
sleep 
> about the "scarey guys.")  Back to the physical aspects--I don't know
what 
> the level of fluids is now, but initially it was 1.5 liters per hour--my 
> niece only weighs about 100 lbs., so compare this to an 800# endurance
horse 
> getting 12 liters per hour to put it in perspective...  I'm not sure at
this 
> point if she is getting anything orally or not, or if all the calories,
etc. 
> also have to go by way of the IV.
> 
> Again, thanks for the continued support and prayers from so many of you,
and 
> I apologize for not getting all of your posts answered personally.
> 
> Heidi
> 
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