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In such a short time, we have a long story. Our beautiful Isabella joined the world early hours of 7th April 2016. After a healthy pregnancy and seemingly okay labour things drastically changed as Isabellas heart rate dropped, after hours of further delays she was eventually delivered via emergency c-section, by this point no heart rate could be found. After extensive resusciation our little angel came back to us and was quickly put on to a cooling mat and transferred to Luton and Dunstable NICU.
Weeks of devastation followed as we were lead in to side rooms by doctors to be told the odds were against her pulling through, then days later she came off the oxygen, then that there was no brain activity, that day she briefly opened her eyes, then told after EEGs and MRIs the extent of the damage our beautiful daughter had undergone, the news of severe brain damage hit us hard. Would she ever walk? Talk? Laugh?
Since this day our lifes have been a whirlwind of questions, hospital trip and stays, tears but also hope.
Isabella amazes us everyday, we're yet to hear her babble or laugh, and have had few smiles but she's here. She will turn to look at her big brother, she turns to sounds and is starting to focus.
Hope lead us to look further in to treatments for Isabella and we have had great feedback and been accepted for some life changing treatments, which is what has brought us here. With all these great treatments comes extensive bills. We have recently been in contact with a movement therapy in london (ABM) it has great results but will cost roughly £2000 a year (£80 per 45 mins) and we have now also been accepted for Brain Stem Cell Therapy in Panama, not including flights is $15,800 (roughly £11000). Oxygen therapy and sensory equipment are also on the cards with Oxygen chambers all over the UK. We are now in the need of the funds to take Isabellas journey further, a journey to a better quality of life that she was stolen of but so greatly deserves. We are hoping to start these therapies and treatments asap so are reaching out for help and support, however big or small, it honestly will change her life.
Weeks of devastation followed as we were lead in to side rooms by doctors to be told the odds were against her pulling through, then days later she came off the oxygen, then that there was no brain activity, that day she briefly opened her eyes, then told after EEGs and MRIs the extent of the damage our beautiful daughter had undergone, the news of severe brain damage hit us hard. Would she ever walk? Talk? Laugh?
Since this day our lifes have been a whirlwind of questions, hospital trip and stays, tears but also hope.
Isabella amazes us everyday, we're yet to hear her babble or laugh, and have had few smiles but she's here. She will turn to look at her big brother, she turns to sounds and is starting to focus.
Hope lead us to look further in to treatments for Isabella and we have had great feedback and been accepted for some life changing treatments, which is what has brought us here. With all these great treatments comes extensive bills. We have recently been in contact with a movement therapy in london (ABM) it has great results but will cost roughly £2000 a year (£80 per 45 mins) and we have now also been accepted for Brain Stem Cell Therapy in Panama, not including flights is $15,800 (roughly £11000). Oxygen therapy and sensory equipment are also on the cards with Oxygen chambers all over the UK. We are now in the need of the funds to take Isabellas journey further, a journey to a better quality of life that she was stolen of but so greatly deserves. We are hoping to start these therapies and treatments asap so are reaching out for help and support, however big or small, it honestly will change her life.
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Corinna Watkins
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