Amanda’s Journey & final arrangements

As you all know my daughter Amanda Salvi, age 30 had been fighting juvenile diabetes since she was 15 years of age and continues to struggle with it. She gave birth to her baby girl on 11/12/2018 three months early. Haylee-Lynn was only 1.9 pounds. She fought to stay alive all while her mother was doing the same thing. The birth threw Amanda into renal failure. 78 days on EHCMO fighting for her life, the doctors put her on EHCMO in order to sustain her and give her vital organs a rest (heart & Lungs). When they removed her from EHCMO she was breathing on her own and her heart was doing good. More sleepless nights as she continued to get better. They removed her intubation. 97 days later she went to rehab to regain all her strength and learn how to walk, right, eat, etc. everything we take for granted. In the last two years Amanda struggle with being on dialysis. Her main goal was to be on peritoneal dialysis So she can be home with her children. Finally it happened, but Amanda continue to struggle with hooking up every night, it drained so much of her. She continues to struggle with appointments , daily house work, everything but pursued and persisted.Amanda always says she was doing it for children. She has been ill Trying to keep food down the past couple weeks so we took her into the hospital and within four days they released her saying she had a stomach bug. After another week of her being sick at home we took her back in, they ran numerous tests this time found she has an elevated white blood cell count which means she has an infection going on somewhere in her body. More tests were done, she hung in there, then she was having trouble breathing, they finally realize that she Had pneumonia and they asked if they could intubate her. Without a second thought we said yes, she called all of us to talk to everyone and tell them that she love them. When I return to the hospital the next day there was a tube coming from her chest I was informed that upon intubation she had a Nuro thorax (which is a hole in the long) I was informed that this happened upon intubation. As the day went on Amanda continue to need oxygen. They tried to put her on different ventilators just give her help Venting one lungs so the other lung could heal the hole but her blood pressure didn’t like that. She was too unstable to do any surgery to close the hole. Amanda was tired, exhausted from fighting which she has done her whole life to live. Finally earlier this morning she finished her race strongly and with uncommon courage and was met at the heavenly gates of our Savior Jesus Christ. We can only imagine the reunion she is having today with her grandparents.

Through Amanda’s Journey and due to her medical conditions (diabetes, renal failure) no company would offer or provide any type of life insurance. The family is asking for anyone to donate/assist in Amanda’s final resting place and all funds will be going to the funeral home and the cemetery and if you could find it in your heart for anything extra will go to her children.