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On Monday 24th of May Amarlies parents took her to the Gladstone hospital thinking she had a vomiting bug they admitted her due to no urine output and no fluid intake they then done multiple test including a lumbar puncture testing for meningitis the doctors were trying there best to eliminate everything until they made the decision to get a CT scan done to be sure nothing was going on in her brain.
It turns out Amarlie never had any kind of virus at all, an hour after her scan come Back the doctor pulled Britt and Liam (Amarlie’s parents) aside in a room with a circle of chairs the nurse took Amarlie’s younger brother so it was at that point they knew something wasn’t right. The doctor told them the most heartbreaking news. They found a large mass on the right side of her brain highly believing it is a blood cot or potential tumour. At that stage they were still unaware of what exactly is wrong.
The doctors put in another cannula where then the emergency button was hit and doctors come rushing in as Amarlie began to have a seizure the decision was made to fly her out Tuesday night to Brisbane with news that the only way it can be removed is she would have to under take surgery on the brain
They arrived at Queensland Children's Hospital at 1:30am Wednesday morning where further scans were undertaken and as the result the decision was made to take Amarlie into theatre straight away so 5:30am wednesday morning Amarlie underwent Craniotomy brain surgery and evacuation of right temporal Parenchymal Hemorrhage which took 3 hours she then went into PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) where she was on a breathing tube until it could be removed and wake her.
On Sunday 30th May the O'Connor family received some answers. Neuro doctor said they are possibly thinking it’s something called venous thrombosis (a blot clot in a vein in the brain that had ruptured and caused the haemorrhage)
But until the results come back the following is the other potential causes they are looking at
- Aneurysm
- Stroke
- Tumor
- AVM (Arteriovenous malformation)
The doctor had also said besides a Tumor they may never be a way of finding out which one of them caused the haemorrhage under the scope (if it isn’t a venous Thrombosis) as they all look exactly the same and side affects of all this is that over the next few years Amarlie is highly likely to have seizures.
At this stage we don’t know what the road to recovery looks like.
Please keep the O’Connor family in your thoughts and if you are able to donate to help this family financially while they spend however long it takes to get answers and to recover by Amarlie’s hospital bedside. It is most important they stay strong & be together as a family and this comes with financial stress as Liam cannot work while he is 6 hours from home.
Please share!
Thank you so much! ❤️
It turns out Amarlie never had any kind of virus at all, an hour after her scan come Back the doctor pulled Britt and Liam (Amarlie’s parents) aside in a room with a circle of chairs the nurse took Amarlie’s younger brother so it was at that point they knew something wasn’t right. The doctor told them the most heartbreaking news. They found a large mass on the right side of her brain highly believing it is a blood cot or potential tumour. At that stage they were still unaware of what exactly is wrong.
The doctors put in another cannula where then the emergency button was hit and doctors come rushing in as Amarlie began to have a seizure the decision was made to fly her out Tuesday night to Brisbane with news that the only way it can be removed is she would have to under take surgery on the brain
They arrived at Queensland Children's Hospital at 1:30am Wednesday morning where further scans were undertaken and as the result the decision was made to take Amarlie into theatre straight away so 5:30am wednesday morning Amarlie underwent Craniotomy brain surgery and evacuation of right temporal Parenchymal Hemorrhage which took 3 hours she then went into PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) where she was on a breathing tube until it could be removed and wake her.
On Sunday 30th May the O'Connor family received some answers. Neuro doctor said they are possibly thinking it’s something called venous thrombosis (a blot clot in a vein in the brain that had ruptured and caused the haemorrhage)
But until the results come back the following is the other potential causes they are looking at
- Aneurysm
- Stroke
- Tumor
- AVM (Arteriovenous malformation)
The doctor had also said besides a Tumor they may never be a way of finding out which one of them caused the haemorrhage under the scope (if it isn’t a venous Thrombosis) as they all look exactly the same and side affects of all this is that over the next few years Amarlie is highly likely to have seizures.
At this stage we don’t know what the road to recovery looks like.
Please keep the O’Connor family in your thoughts and if you are able to donate to help this family financially while they spend however long it takes to get answers and to recover by Amarlie’s hospital bedside. It is most important they stay strong & be together as a family and this comes with financial stress as Liam cannot work while he is 6 hours from home.
Please share!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Organizer and beneficiary
Carly Pusnik
Organizer
Tablelands QLD
Brittney Krampera
Beneficiary
