Help Courageous Camellia Save her Kidneys!
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The Clement Family is an average American Family. Cody is in the National Guard as well as working more than full time in a local mill. Rosena works full time in the office of a local family owned company. They grew up in the small town of Eagle Point, Oregon and found love in each other after years of friendship. That love created a little girl named Camellia in 2014 and a little boy named Colton in 2018. They are the picture of an average American family who loves their Country, their hometown and their family.
On April 1st, 2019 Camellia's first domino fell. She complained of stomach pain, so Rosena brought her into Urgent Care. After a vomiting episode in their waiting room they rushed her back. A couple hours later she left there with a diagnosis of a bladder infection, well, that wasn't it. For the next week and a half Camellia was woken up every half hour from pain, vomited up everything she attempted to eat and eventually stopped eating. Rosena and Cody blindly fought for their daughter. Knowing something a majorly wrong they sought some sort of medical treatment every day, each time was a flurry of diagnosis that caused a "wait and see" reaction from doctors. Bladder infection, Kidney infection, constipation, a bad flu virus, bowel obstruction, appendicitis, a bad flu virus. On Monday, April 8th, 2019 Camellia began to vomit fecal matter, another trip to the ER. After 7 hours, major tests and multiple guesses by doctors she was sent home with constipation.
On Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 Rosena and Cody got the call to go in and have Camellia's "constipation" taken care of. This is the day when everything turned on a dime. As they undressed her to put her in the gown they noticed a rash. It went from her feet to her back. The doctor knew what it was instantly, though most of the doctors there had never actually seen it. 4 ER visits, 1 Urgent Care Visit and 3 Doctors visits later, Camellia finally had the start of her diagnosis: Henoch-Schonlein purpura or also known as HSP.
If you Google HSP you will find that there is no test or cure for it, and they don't really know what causes it. It's typically a "send them home and they'll be over it in 4-6 weeks" kind of disease. It couldn't be that easy for Camellia; it was attacking her Kidneys. After multiple days in the Medford pediatric wing she was sent via medical transport 5 hours away to Doernbecher's Pediatric Hospital in Portland. It was there that she received her current diagnosis HSP Nephritis. Her body is attacking her Kidneys and it is going to be a long road to recovery.
They are currently putting her through 3 days of high dose steroids before they perform 3 kidney biopsies. Her kidneys are not retaining water and 50x the amount of normal protein is getting released. Depending on how the biopsies go they may send her back home or keep her for another week or two. Either way she will need to go in for 4-12 weeks to have high dose then move on to daily oral steroids. After that it will be constant specialist visits. She will have a number of medications she will have to be on, as well as a low sodium diet and restrictions on liquid intake for the foreseeable future.
I can still hear this little girl screaming "NO POKE" to every doctor and nurse that entered the room. The doctors at Doernbechers love how much of a little fighter she is, because it will aid in her recovery. She has a good outlook for recovery but it has been and will be a long and expensive road.
Which brings us to why you are reading this. While they do have medical insurance it is not going to get anywhere near covering the costs of the ER visits, hospital stays, medical transport or the ongoing care. I pray that this story makes its way to individuals who are able to help them. So please I urge you to do what you can. Even a $5 donation will help and if you can't then please pray. Pray for Camellia and pray for her family. Thank you for reading the most recent chapter in their story.
On April 1st, 2019 Camellia's first domino fell. She complained of stomach pain, so Rosena brought her into Urgent Care. After a vomiting episode in their waiting room they rushed her back. A couple hours later she left there with a diagnosis of a bladder infection, well, that wasn't it. For the next week and a half Camellia was woken up every half hour from pain, vomited up everything she attempted to eat and eventually stopped eating. Rosena and Cody blindly fought for their daughter. Knowing something a majorly wrong they sought some sort of medical treatment every day, each time was a flurry of diagnosis that caused a "wait and see" reaction from doctors. Bladder infection, Kidney infection, constipation, a bad flu virus, bowel obstruction, appendicitis, a bad flu virus. On Monday, April 8th, 2019 Camellia began to vomit fecal matter, another trip to the ER. After 7 hours, major tests and multiple guesses by doctors she was sent home with constipation.
On Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 Rosena and Cody got the call to go in and have Camellia's "constipation" taken care of. This is the day when everything turned on a dime. As they undressed her to put her in the gown they noticed a rash. It went from her feet to her back. The doctor knew what it was instantly, though most of the doctors there had never actually seen it. 4 ER visits, 1 Urgent Care Visit and 3 Doctors visits later, Camellia finally had the start of her diagnosis: Henoch-Schonlein purpura or also known as HSP.
If you Google HSP you will find that there is no test or cure for it, and they don't really know what causes it. It's typically a "send them home and they'll be over it in 4-6 weeks" kind of disease. It couldn't be that easy for Camellia; it was attacking her Kidneys. After multiple days in the Medford pediatric wing she was sent via medical transport 5 hours away to Doernbecher's Pediatric Hospital in Portland. It was there that she received her current diagnosis HSP Nephritis. Her body is attacking her Kidneys and it is going to be a long road to recovery.
They are currently putting her through 3 days of high dose steroids before they perform 3 kidney biopsies. Her kidneys are not retaining water and 50x the amount of normal protein is getting released. Depending on how the biopsies go they may send her back home or keep her for another week or two. Either way she will need to go in for 4-12 weeks to have high dose then move on to daily oral steroids. After that it will be constant specialist visits. She will have a number of medications she will have to be on, as well as a low sodium diet and restrictions on liquid intake for the foreseeable future.
I can still hear this little girl screaming "NO POKE" to every doctor and nurse that entered the room. The doctors at Doernbechers love how much of a little fighter she is, because it will aid in her recovery. She has a good outlook for recovery but it has been and will be a long and expensive road.
Which brings us to why you are reading this. While they do have medical insurance it is not going to get anywhere near covering the costs of the ER visits, hospital stays, medical transport or the ongoing care. I pray that this story makes its way to individuals who are able to help them. So please I urge you to do what you can. Even a $5 donation will help and if you can't then please pray. Pray for Camellia and pray for her family. Thank you for reading the most recent chapter in their story.
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Nicolina O'Brien
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Medford, OR
