My Little Baby Adrianna

Hello friends, my name is Antonio Acevedo, and this is why I've started a fund raiser. On Monday September 5, my family and I were celebrating Labor  Day as we always do. I had family over, I was cooking, and enjoying the wonderful weather we were having. Everything was picture perfect, until around 3pm. I heard my daughter crying in her room, and immediately ran upstairs to check on her. I found her lying on the floor, in the middle of her room. I didn't think anything terrible had happened. I thought she might have tripped on something. I asked her what happened to her, and she kept saying as she continued to cry, "I fell on the floor, and I can't get up. I'm trying to stand, but I can't ". I then notice that her right arm, and leg was moving, but nothing on her left side moved. I thought she might be having a stroke, but she never suffered from seizures. I felt behind her head, but didn't feel any blood. She began telling me she just wanted to sleep, and began dozing off. I did everything I could to keep her awake until the ambulance arrived. They rushed her to the hospital, and I thought, thank God they came fast. Little did I know my daughter was dying right before my eyes. They took her into the ER, and began questioning me about the incident. I explained to them what happened as they continued to looked her over. She kept dozing off, and they told me they're doing to do a CAT scan to see if she had an injury to her head. It seemed to take forever to get the CAT scan going. They told me I could watch as they began doing the CAT scan, and after a few minutes they told me I had to leave the room, and wait outside with the Doctors. I then asked the Doctor what the worst case scenario could be, and he told me, "if there is blood in her head it could be fatal". It seemed like an eternity to wait till we got the results. Then the horrible news came that there was blood rushing into her brain, and that they need to rush her to Yale's trauma unit. I still didn't understand the severity of the result until that same Doctor, who stood outside with me put his hand on my shoulder and said, "I'm so sorry". I began weeping, and asked him what he meant by saying sorry , and he said, "this could be fatal". If you're a parent, you can only imagine the horror that was going through mind. Vaguely can you understand the feeling of a Doctor telling you your child is dying, and there is absolutely nothing You can do about it. So I began praying. Others joined in, and began praying with me. They were doing everything they can to get my daughter to Yale ASAP. They ask me if I wanted to ride in the ambulance with my daughter, and I agreed. The Doctor then asked if my wife would meet us at Yale, and I told them, " after my daughter settled at Yale, I'll go back home to pick my wife up". For as long as I live, I will never forget the look on their faces, as they looked at each other, then looked at me, and said, " you need to get your wife now, your daughter might die on the way up to Yale". I'm overwhelmed as I type this, because I'm living this over in my mind. I got my wife, my older daughter, and drove to Yale. When we got to Yale, the Trauma team informed me that my daughter had an AVM, and that it had ruptured. Arteriovenous Vain Malformation. Here's a video if you'd like to see exactly what happened to my daughter. https://youtu.be/UDwaLKboSLo
They immediately preformed an emergency operation on Adrianna. They needed to open her skull, and remove the flap on her right side, so that her brain can expand, because it was swelling. The following day they needed to preform another, much more dangerous operation. The Doctors inserted a scope through her inner thigh's main artery. They had to guide that scope all the way up to her brain, find the ruptured AVM, insert a diaphragm, and glue it close, so that the bleeding can stop. By the Grace of God the operation was successful, and they were able to stop the bleeding. It's close to a month now since that dark day, and my daughter is in a rehabilitation hospital in New York. The injury to the right side of her brain has caused her left side to become paralyzed. Her progress is very slow, but I'm happy to say that it is slowly moving in the right direction. The Doctors informed us that she'll be there several months. It's still too early to know all the damage the blood that flowed into in her brain will caused her to have in the future. If everything goes well for her, it could take up to two years for a full recovery. So we're down one month, with 23 to go. Above everything that has happened to our family, my oldest daughter recently had an injury to her head as well. Four stitches to her forehead to be exact, and my wife, who has Bipolar has been admitted into the hospital. Everything that has happened to our family has overwhelmed her, and caused her to have an episode of Manic Depression. My income is the only income earned for our whole family. I've exhausted all my time off from work for the year. Although I have medical insurance, our copayment for my wife's hospitalization, as well as her medication. Our travels to and from Connecticut to New York. Meals, bills, mortgage, and everything else that you can imagine has piled up. So much so, that it didn't dawn on me till today, went a friend ask me how I was going financially. I told him, "not too good". He suggested that I start a fund raiser to help me get through this difficult time. Wow, I never thought I'd be doing this, and it's not because I'm too proud to do this, it's just because I never had the need to ask for help. So, if you find it in your heart to help out my family financial, it would greatly be appreciated. If you can't help out financial, please pray for my family. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I will continue to post pictures of my family's progress. God bless you all. Antonio Acevedo.