Sick Miss Jordyn

Here is a email that Jason sent....

Dear Family

As some of you might have heard, we've had an eventful few days. Last week Sara came down with pneumonia and Tessa broke her arm. Both are now doing fine.

Jordyn also got sick last Thursday. She was seeming better over the weekend and we even all went to church. On Tuesday, Sara noticed that Jordyn was kind of taking a turn for the worst. We watched her Tuesday night and I just felt that she wasn't doing good. Sara took her to see the Dr on Wednesday afternoon. The dr checked her oxygen level and it was at 72 which is very low, so he had her admitted to the hospital. The Dr & Nurses thought that she was doing fairly well, but it appeared that she had some pneumonia and they said that she would probably be in the hospital for a few days. Then last night at around 8:00 she really took a turn for the worse very quickly (less than 5 minutes) and was maxing out the hospital's oxygen at 15 and was on a rebreather bag. She came back out of it slightly where her oxygen was back down at level 5, but the on call Dr didn't want to have her on max capacity and decided to send her to a hospital that could handle it if she got worse again. So Jordyn was life flighted to Primary Children's Medical. Sara and I couldn't ride with her, but the life flight nurse called and said that she did really well. Here at PCMC they put her on a breathing machine and she is doing well.

Talking to the Dr & PA today they said that looking at her xray she could have either a viral or bacterial pneumonia, but it also appears that she has reactive airway which could turn into asthma. (They usually don't diagnose asthma in kids until the age 5). Today she is doing well, watching Minnie Mouse and taking all this in stride.

Just wanted you all to know and would appreciate your prayers for our little girl.

Love you all

Jason

It's Thursday now, and we're still in the PICU. Jordyn seems to be holding up okay for the time being. They are probably going to put a feeding tub in, which I'm TOTALLY freaking out about, but trying not to show it. This is hard for me. Watching her go through this. It's super hard to see her sad, little tears running down her cheaks. I'm just not cut out for this...

Happy thoughts and prayers. We need them. She needs them. I need them.