Join John's Fight for Recovery

Thank you to everybody’s prayers and well wishes. John went to heaven last night.

On July 2nd my son John was taken by ambulance to the local hospital. John soon was transferred to MUSC Children's PICU with a diagnosis of DKA (Diabetic Coma). John's blood sugar was so high it could not be read with the glucometers, John had never been diagnosed with Diabetes. When the labs returned the glucose reading was greater than 800. By the end of that day, he was minimally responsive, John had experienced a seizure but was still responding to simple commands, and he was unable to speak clearly to where he was understood. Normal glucose levels are between 80 and 120. John's heart was reading at over 170 beats per minute and his respirations were over 50. The doctors suspect that this has been going on for a long time. They immediately started running fluids to bring John's glucose down slowly to give his body time to compensate. On Wednesday John was not showing improvement and he began to decline and became non-responsive that evening is when the doctors decided to intubate him and at about the same time his kidneys began to fail so they put him on continuous dialysis. John started bleeding on Thursday the 4th from his nose and mouth from an unknown location and continued to decline throughout the day that is when the doctors decided to put John on Life Support. By the morning of the 5th he had been given 9 units of blood product and it was decided that he required surgery due to fluid and gasses that were building up in his abdomen. They opened his abdomen from his sternum to his groin to allow the excess gasses and fluid waste to escape from his body, a wound vac was placed to help to continue to remove fluids. After the surgery was complete some small slight improvements were noticed, John is still in a very critical state and not stable. Due to reasons that at this time do not matter John does not have any insurance, when he pulls through he will need extensive rehab and will be required to be on several medications including insulin with his new diagnosis of Diabetes. I appreciate any donation that you are able to provide, if you are unable please send your prayers John's way. I will try to update this. A meal train has also been set up if you would like to help in that way as well.