Heidi - June 15
Sadly, this has been our worst day so far and we have all been to hell and back.
Heidi is back on dialysis and has had two more blood transfusions today. She had excruciating chest pains and thought she was having a heart attack. She was vomiting again and only able to communicate with us in a very limited way. She just lay in her bed like a limp doll with hardly enough energy to squeeze our hand.
We have been with her all day (mostly one at a time) and when her dialysis had finished tonight, a nurse came in to take more blood (Heidi has had around 17 of these and her arms are black with bruises and very painful). I left her room while this took place and when I returned she was half sitting up in bed and asked, “So where’s the vampire gone?” with a cheeky grin on her face. I have spent most of my day close to, or in tears, and to hear her say this lifted my spirits no end. She ate her whole dinner and when I waved her goodbye she blew me kisses. I hate to think what MY blood pressure is! Sadly, she will be back on plasma exchange again tomorrow.
Dr Su took as aside this morning and told us some hard truths. We already knew this in our hearts, but he had never actually said until now how very close to death she has been. If they had kept her in Addis one more day, she would not have survived.
He said that we all must now PRAY FOR FULL HEALING OF HER KIDNEYS as they are extremely likely to be so damaged that she will have to have a transplant or continual dialysis. If you have any energy left, could you please continue to pray specifically for this. He said the sooner she returned home the better and was hopeful that this would be early next week. She will be sent in an SOS MediVac jet.
We love and appreciate you all so very much…
Ronny, Michael and Kellie xxxx
