Baylee's Battle by Serena and Jessica Hayes

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My sister, Jessica, and I are setting up this donation to help support the family of Baylee Littlefield, currently hospitalized at Children's Medical Center in Da... more

Updated posted by Serena Hayes 2 months ago

Hello everyone, I wanted to let...

Hello everyone, I wanted to let you all know that we went to the doctor yesterday and Baylee was able to maintain her weight over the last week so the doctor left her tube out. We have another appointment in 2 weeks to check again on her weight. If she continues to maintain her goal then she will be without the feeding tube permanently. So now we are able to focus on her arm that is still paralyzed...we were accepted by Texas Scottish Rite Hospital and we are going to The Brown Neuro Clinic for them to meet Baylee and see how they can help her to regain function or as much function of her arm as possible, that appointment is April 5th. Then we will see Ortho at Childrens again and schedule her next surgery, which is a Nerve Conduction Study, to see if she has regained ANY nerve funtion from her spine to that arm. She will be returning to school on March 19th to resume her normal education and we are extremely excited about that, she will have a helper to get her through her days. Please stay tuned and I will continue to update as I get new information. God bless you all and thank you for helping our family through all of this, we are truly grateful!!! Andy and Melinda McCown

Updated posted by Serena Hayes 2 months ago

Excellant news today..We went for our...

Excellant news today..We went for our check up at the GI doctor and he decided to give Baylee a chance and took her feeding tube out temporarily. If she can continue to at least maintain her 88 pounds and not loose any she gets to leave it out. She was so excited that she cried after they removed it. Now her little face gets a break from all that tape. We are still working with Orthopeadics on her arm, it is still paralyzed but she is trying very hard to use the muscles and get it working. We will be going to the Neurology Center at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital on April 5th to see if there is more they can do to try to help us regain use of that arm. Although our journey is not over yet, I feel we have come a long way in such a short time. I want to thank everyone for the donations, with out them I would not have been able to stay at home with Baylee while she recovers. It means alot to our family for me to be by her side through it all. I also want to thank you for keeping up with our story and sending us all the encouraging messages. I will keep you posted after next weeks appointment and will hopefully be able to report that the tube is still out. God bless

Updated posted by Serena Hayes 2 months ago

We went to the Ortho doctor...

We went to the Ortho doctor today for our monthly check up, she said she is doing pretty good but that she still has alot of tightness in her hand and we are going to have to increase our exercises to help stretch it out. She ordered Baylee a special splint for her shoulder and hopefully we will get it on Wednesday. We will be planning another procedure in about 2 months to check the nerves in her arm again to see if there has been any improvement since the first study was performed. We are keeping our fingers crossed because we want to have her arm return to its normal function so she can go back to playing sports and being a kid.

We ask that you please continue to follow our progress and continue to share our page as it helps us in so many ways. Stay tuned for more updates, we should be finding out soon if the feeding tube will be coming out sooner than we thought!!! God bless you all and thank you for the support. Melinda

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Created by Serena Hayes on January 7, 2012

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My sister, Jessica, and I are setting up this donation to help support the family of Baylee Littlefield, currently hospitalized at Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Baylee's mom, Melinda, lives (literally) at the hospital with her right now and has been Jessica's best friend for the past 14 years. My daughter, Kari, and Baylee were born just 6 months apart and so they have been best friends/sisters since birth! Please help us help this family!

Baylee is 11 years old and has always been an incredibly active and energetic child. Unlike a lot of children of this generation, she would much rather go outside and ride her bike or run around outside with her friends instead of stay indoors and play on the computer. Baylee enjoys playing soccer and most recently, basketball. Just before her accident, she was training hard daily in preparation for basketball sign ups.

On November 19, 2011 while spending Thanskgiving with family, Baylee was involved in an accident on an ATV that almost took her life. She suffered a stage 1 kidney laceration, stage 2 liver laceration, broken shoulder, broken right hand, nail evulsion on the right hand, and a brachial plexus injury to the right arm which has subsequently left that arm now paralyzed.

Those were the original injuries.

Melinda noticed that Baylee seemed to be losing a lot of weight and not eating. Shortly afterwards, Baylee began to vomit every time she took in any food or liquid. The vomiting became to become to severe that it was then just bile and Baylee was barely able to walk because she'd become so weak. An already tall and slender little girl who was 85 pounds before the accident has now lost 20 pounds. Melinda took her back to Children's, where she has been since.

Baylee continues to lose weight and is extremely frail. The doctors gave her a feeding tube through her nose to try to get her food since she couldn't hold down food eaten normally. Unfortunately, she still continued to vomit. They had to stop the feeding tube to keep her from continually vomiting. When Kari and I went to visit her last Thursday, she weight a mere 67 pounds.

The hospital has done CT scans, an MRI of the brain, upper GI, endoscopy, and many, many more tests, all without finding a single answer to why she cannot eat. Because she continues to lose weight, which is essentially starving her, the doctors had no choice but to put her under on Thursday to insert a PICC line to give TPN (total parental nutrition) due to her stomach not handling food or the feeding tube formule. This PICC line goes in her arm and through to her heart, where a special formula with the nutrients, calories, etc are able to be fed to her through her heart and bypass her stomach completely so that she can stop losing weight (and hopefully gain!) while they continue to try to figure out what is wrong with her. The doctors have told Melinda that she is a medical mystery at this point, but will keep her there and continue testing until they find the source of the problem and can get her well.

Until then, Melinda is living at the hospital with Baylee to keep a 24/7 watch on her. Children's Medical Center is quite a drive from their home. Her husband drives to the hospital SEVERAL times a week to provide support, check-in, and brings things that they need, but you can imagine, this is costing a very large amount of money in gas and parking is not free either. Additionally, the cost for the parents to be able to eat is completely out of pocket and adds up quickly.

This family is our family. Please help us help this family through this hard time. The doctors are expecting Baylee to be there for several more weeks, at the least and I'm not sure how much longer they can pay for everything on one income.

Your donations go straight to Baylee and her family, so please, any small amount is sincerely appreciated and be sure to share this page with others as well.

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We would like to give our heart felt thanks to Eric & Lee for your recent donation. We really appreciate the gift you gave our family and please know that it was greatly needed and appreciated. God bless you and your family!!

posted by Melinda McCown 2 months ago

hi again glad to hear shes doing better i hope it continues btw im a friend from allen...hope things are going well for the family well bye i wish u the best

posted by juan Rodriguez 2 months ago

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has shared our page with their family and friends. The donations are so helpful to our family as we are still continuing to get Baylee better. Andy is the only one working and it has been a struggle, everything you have given has helped us out so much. Please continue to share our page with others and please stay posted to Baylee's updates. Thank you to everyone who has donated, every dollar is much needed and so appreciated. God bless you all, we will get a new post posted this week about her progress. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

posted by Melinda McCown 3 months ago

The garage sale went great, had alot of fun. Thank you to everyone who helped and we ask that you please continue to share Baylees website with people you know!! God bless

posted by Melinda McCown 3 months ago

We want to thank Serena and Jessica for all the hard work getting our site out there. We are so grateful for the donations and thank you all. We hope you will continue to share our site with everyone and help us get it out there. Every dollar helps us during this troubling time. God bless you, we hope to see you at the yard sale

posted by Melinda McCown 3 months ago

Thanks to everyone including the anonymous donations. Every dollar helps and goes to Baylee and her care. We appreciate you sharing our page with others as that is so helpful in getting the word out there, god bless you all for your hearts help!!

posted by Melinda McCown 3 months ago

Thank you for the kind words and donations, it helps us to be strong with such encouragement!! God bless

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

We would like to say thank you for the recent donations, we greatly appreciate it. We also want to thank all of our visitors that came to see us and be with us yesterday: Amanda, Vickie, Adrianna, Autumn, Sean, shane, TJ, Serena, Kari, Alex, Lil Dylan, Damon, Jessica and Wylie. The laughter was so needed. Your love is felt all through our heart.

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

I want to thank everyone who has donated from the bottom of our hearts, you are all so kind to help us out. Thank you to everyone who watched the Fox 4 news story and shared your wonderful thoughts with our family, god bless you all. Thank you David and Kathy with Ewing heating and air for your donation and the groceries, it was so appreciated and will be so yummy!! God bless you all!!

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

The news special re-aired today and it was great. I am so grateful for everyones help and prayers.

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

Thank you to all who watched our story on fox 4 news and to those who donate anonomously..god bless you and your family...Baylee is watching and appreciates your kindness greatly

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

Thank you Brian and Michelle Green from Kingwood Texas.. Y'all have been our crutch, our heart our love, without you we would not dwell in this beautiful home...you are our souls...Baylee and we luv you so....

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

Thank you Phil Alavardo and Fox 4 news, that was an amazing story, and god bless you all for the donations. It truly is coming to us and we greatly need it...god bless you all and thank you for all the prayers

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

i remember she used to go to my school...i hope the best for her and she gets better i have my prayers for her i miss her she was a good friend please tell her hi for me thank you and i wish u the best :)

posted by juan Rodriguez 4 months ago

Yes, Shiloh, that's Kari (Sutton) with Baylee on the main picture. Kari says hi!

posted by Serena Hayes 4 months ago

ps: is that karrie and baylee in the pic

posted by Shiloh Ivie 4 months ago

hey baylee rember me in intermedite in farmersville u were one of my bffs i hope u get better

posted by Shiloh Ivie 4 months ago

Thank you Marlow Jeep, your donation is greatly appreciated..god bless you for all your help

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

Just wanted to say thank you and god bless you all for the support, we have been here 2 weeks today. All your donations have helped so much. You are all very dear to us now and have filled our hearts with hope, thank you just isn't enough to express our gratitude!!

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

Thank you all so much, every dollar donated is greatly appreciated. The cost of living at a hospital can add up so quickly. God Bless you

posted by Melinda McCown 4 months ago

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Baylee's Battle

My sister, Jessica, and I are setting up this donation to help support the family of Baylee Littlefield, currently hospitalized at Children's Medical Center in Da... more

We pray for you... have faith and stay strong!

Praying that Baylee sees a healthy and strong future for herself and that the rest of the family receives peace and comfort.