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Baby Wrenly’ Fight to Flight

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Hello, it’s GAM ((that’s ME;)), Wrenly Elizabeth’s GRANDmother.

On April 25th of this spring, my sweet GRANDdaughter, Wren, was born into our family, a month early, via emergency cesarean.

She was born unresponsive, requiring resuscitation which led to her being rushed to the NICU at Maine Medical Center where she lived for the next month.

Wrenly has been cleared from having any major neurological issues, but has been diagnosed with Hydronephrosis, a kidney disorder.

After spending 4 weeks in the NICU, Wren was discharged from Maine Med, and went home with her Mommy and Daddy where she lives with them and her two siblings, Oliver and Katherine.

She did quite well, being seen weekly by her pediatrician, until about mid-July, when all of a sudden she became very ill.

Since then she has been hospitalized, twice, at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

She was admitted again, yesterday, and will be there for at least two weeks, so that she can receive antibiotics through an IV.

Two weeks ago, our family thought she was fighting a UTI that had backed up into her kidneys, eventually causing her to have sepsis.

She fought hard, and started showing signs of improvement, right away. But she had to stay at the hospital because she needed her medicine through an IV. Her parents were able to bring her home after one week, with oral antibiotics.

But just days after finishing those oral antibiotics, she became very sick, again, vomiting and spiking very high fevers, upwards of 105 degrees!!

Her Mommy and Daddy were told by her pediatrician, during a check up earlier in the week, not to mess around if she gets a fever and to rush her right into the hospital, as she’s very susceptible to getting very sick, quickly. And so that’s what they did two days ago, on Friday night.

Wrenly was admitted to Barbara Bush, fighting what we thought was the same thing she had two weeks ago, an illness related to her kidneys, but this time, her diagnosis is much more serious.

Wrenly is fighting a very rare, and very severe, infection called Pseudomonas.

This is a virus that is antibiotic resistant. It can attack any part of the body, and can be fatal for the immunocompromised, like Wren.

She started a two-week course of IV antibiotics yesterday.

We are hopeful that this course of antibiotics will rid this sweet baby of the ugly virus she is fighting, but we won’t know for sure, for some time, nor will we know the damage it has caused.

In the meantime, the bills from these hospital stays just keep adding up.

Her Mommy and Daddy are staying right down the street from her in the Ronald McDonald house, so they don’t need help paying for that, but they do have to travel back and forth from Portland to Lewiston to see their other two kids, check in on their home, etc.

I am starting this fundraiser to help my daughter and her husband, pay for all the things related to Wrenly’s stay in the hospital.

They need help with everything from medical expenses, to gas and tolls, to food and daycare expenses for their other children.

I know that money is tight for many of us. Please give what you can, as any amount will help, and all amounts are deeply appreciated.

If you’re interested in making meals for them, please reach out to me, and I will arrange to meet you.

GAM ((that’s ME;)), Wrenly’s GRANDmother, would like to THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for any help you can give!!

THANK YOU for your time spent PRAYING for my family. Please continue to do so as this journey has just begun.

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Donations 

  • Lee Witham
    • $50
    • 1 yr
  • Kathleen Vince
    • $50
    • 1 yr
  • Michelle Shaw
    • $100
    • 1 yr
  • Pam Bryan
    • $50
    • 1 yr
  • Pamela Ethridge
    • $200
    • 1 yr
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Organizer and beneficiary

Kelly Millett
Organizer
Sabattus, ME
Livanah Jones
Beneficiary

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