Angels for Angel

Words by Andrew DeGiobbi:

Ok friends so I have a favor to ask of everyone that reads this and that can help.

So we got terrible news from my wife's childhood best friend Tove (Digero) Campbell and her husband Calvin about their youngest daughter who is non verbal autistic. This is an absolute nightmare for any parent to go through (having had a sick child we sadly know all too well). Angel is the sweetest little girl who should be home picking on her brothers and messing up her bedroom. Their beautiful daughter Angel came down with a mild cough and an eye infection and the doctors were treating her for this with antibiotics. It appeared it was not getting any better or reacting to the antibiotics. They were treating her for the eye infection and mild pneumonia to no avail. She did not have any other symptoms at all , no fever, nothing. On Sept 14th they made another trip to the doctor in which it was suggested they see an eye doctor and in doing so the eye doctor directed them to go to emergency because they thought their machine was broken as it read her blood oxygen as 35. When they went to the ER Angel's oxygen levels were in fact 35 and her heart rate was 156. So hours after they arrived at the ER the doctors were trying to stabilize her after her lung collapsed. They had to stabilize her enough to survive the air transport to the sick children's hospital in Calgary where she is on ventilators to keep her alive. The doctors are running so many tests on her and they are not having any luck so far on figuring out what is going in with her. They have tested her for everything and no luck. Tove and Calvin are currently waiting on results from bone marrow and genetics testing. Some of the testing they are doing now has to be sent to the US for analysis. They have doctors from all over trying to figure this out. They have her in a drug induced coma and on ventilators. The poor little girl's organs are failing and she is not doing well at all.

Tove has been staying at the hospital with her and Calvin has been traveling back and forth daily to Red Deer to take care of their other children at home. (Who are also autistic) Neither of them have been able to work because of this which is understandable 100%. These people are the nicest people you could ever meet they would give anyone the shirt off their backs and they are truly some of the best parents out there and are true family people.

I would like to reach out to anyone that is able to help out.

I understand with the way things are now there are a lot of people struggling and I DO NOT expect that everyone can help. Anyone that can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to everyone. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.