Support Zoralee (newborn) in Healing from Brain Bleeds

On April 29, 2025 we welcomed our beautiful daughter Zoralee Rose Duhon. She was perfect and from what we knew was healthy. We got to take her home Thursday May 1, 2025. We spent Friday at home in bed admiring our newborn baby without any worry. Saturday May 3, 2025 she started to run a fever around 5am with a temp of 101.2. We tried environmental measures at home by removing her swaddle and clothing. Wiping her with cold wet rags and sitting with her under a fan. After giving it time it was not working and by 8am we had reached out to the pediatrician who directed us to go to the ER with our newborn baby at 4 days old. We went to our local hospital and they began to run test in suspicion of an infection causing the fever spike. All infections came back negative and we were then admitted to the NICU for more evaluation. The neonatal doctor wanted to rule out meningitis so he ordered a lumbar puncture and an ultrasound of her head. In the results of the ultrasound it was revealed that her brain was bleeding. An MRI was done next to see the extent. Our precious newborn 4 day old baby had multiple compartment subdural hemorrhages. The local neonatal doctor told us they did not have the resources at that hospital to save her life. We were told if the bleeding was active and the pressure increased in her head we would be forced to face a brutal tragedy and would be looking at the end of her life. This doctor then advised us that we need to be transported to another hospital that had the means to care for her brain bleed. We were then transported to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville Tennessee. Zoralee has gone through 44 test from the original local hospital and 49 more test at Vanderbilt. We have been in the hospital for several days now and we don’t not have any answers to why this has happened. Zoralee is stable and only time will tell the extent of the damage that’s been done by these bleeds. Our family has been impacted by this event in many ways from grieving the days our newborn would join us at home to the financial burden of unexpected medical cost, living in hospital setting for days, and maintaining leave of absence from work to be here with our daughter. Zoralee has a long road to recovery ahead of her from specialist to therapist and early intervention methods to help in her development. We will have to return to Nashville frequently for routine follow ups and further imaging to manage this unexplained brain bleed. We are asking for your help during this tough time. To lift one burden so that we can focus on the priority of our daughters health and development. Thank you to anyone whom has read this far. Please donate if possible and if not please just share so that others can’t get the chance to see our story. Thank you and love to all!