Our family needs your financial support


How we got here...


On April 9th, 2018 my daughter, Mikala would receive a phone call that Karter @ 3months
was found unresponsive. He would be
ambulated over to Loyola Medical Center
where in the ambulance bay he’d go into full
cardiac arrest, after 7 rounds of atropine his
body finally responds & he’s moved to the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where they’d
work on him for another 6 hrs. After waiting 6 grueling hrs we were finally allowed to see
him. This was not at all what we expected.
Karter was hooked up to a ventilator. Life
support.


The Waiting Game....

The next 72hrs would be very intense. Within that time Karter would begin to have seizures with swelling on the brain, now we were
presented with a very grim prognosis that he would not survive the weekend. But GOD had other plans.....


Karter would spend the next 2 weeks on life
support heavily sedated surrounded by a
heavy presence of family & friends. Karter is
still unresponsive, EEG shows zero brain
activity, no reflexes, no gag reflex, no reaction to light, he’s unable to breathe above the
ventilator. They discuss withdrawing life
support.  Karters other grandmother
(Yolanda) suggests weaning him off of the
sedation meds, they agreed. As sedation meds are slowly decreased, he began to respond!
His eyes were no longer locked & fixed in one direction, the swelling on his brain subsided,
all his vitals were stable, only obstacle now
was the ventilator.


Meeting With His Medical Team...

We were scheduled to meet with his medical
team, which consisted of about 20 doctors,
nurses & specialists, where they encourage us to remove him from the ventilator as caring
for him would be a burden & his quality of life would be poor.  But God had other plans....


Withdrawal From Ventilator....

On Thursday @ 8:30 am, a respiratory tech
was scheduled to come around & remove
Karter from his support to see if he could
breath independently. Karter would
immediately start breathing on his own @
90%! They were shocked! Over the next
couple days we stepped down from PICU.

The next couple weeks we would see obvious signs of severe brain damage, Karter would be inconsolable, his eyes wouldn’t track, he was
unable to latch on to a bottle, his muscles
were weak & he had no head or neck control.


Rehab....

After fighting with the hospitals & having a
feeding tube surgically placed, we were finally transferred to rehab. Because of poor
insurance & their unwillingness to provide
Karter with the therapy he deserved, rehab
really didn’t benefit him.


Where are we today?


Karter is now 3. He’s nonverbal, non-mobile,
visually impaired, feeding tube dependent,
epileptic, cerebral palsy & struggles with
hypothermia. He ages out of Early
Intervention which are services provided by
each state to individuals under 3. They include Physical, Vision, Feeding, Occupational
Therapy & Infant Development, which brings us here....After 3 years of age
there are no programs provided to individuals with disabilities other than preschool.

 Go figure...


Where we’re headed.....




HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBOT)


Why it's done???


Your body's tissues need an adequate supply
of oxygen to function. When tissue is injured,
it requires even more oxygen to survive.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the
amount of oxygen your blood can carry.
With repeated scheduled treatments, the
temporary extra
high oxygen levels encourage normal tissue
oxygen levels, even after the therapy is
completed.


Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat
several medical conditions. And medical
institutions use it in different ways. Your
doctor may suggest hyperbaric oxygen
therapy if you have one of the following
conditions:


Severe anemia
Brain abscess
Bubbles of air in your blood vessels (arterial
gas embolism)
Burns
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Crushing injury
Deafness, sudden
Decompression sickness
Gangrene
Infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death
Nonhealing wounds, such as a diabetic foot
ulcer
Radiation injury
Skin graft or skin flap at risk of tissue death
Traumatic brain injury
Vision loss, sudden and painless
Sports injuries 



How YOU can help Baby Karter☺️


These treatments are unfortunately not
covered by our insurance & they don’t make
them affordable for the average person.
However,Through research & networking
with other patients & hearing their
testimonials this treatment has helped SO
MANY babies & kids to improve their lives
after a traumatic brain injury. Karter would
need 100 treatments, each treatment is $250.
So we’d need to raise a total of $25,000! Will
you join us in helping make this possible for
Karter?? He so deserves it!



I know this was a lot. Thank you for sticking in
there. Thank you for reading our journey.
Thank you for any help you can give!


Withdrawal Plan: Tanganika Bailey, Karter's grandmother, is overseeing the fundraiser and the management of funds.





#KARTERSTRONG