That's it

Because of Addy's liver disease, her body isn't able to feet rid of some of the things it needs to. One of those is ammonia. The others are things that the doctors can't measure. The doctors had been doing everything they could to control Addy's ammonia levels but her body kept producing more. This among the other things they can't measure, caused her brain to swell. Yesterday the doctors did an MRI on her brain and found no blood flow. This means there is a possibility of her being brain dead. The doctor told us that she is almost certain this is the case. Per hospital protocol she needs to be put on and EEG again, have two neurological exams and other tests ran. However, the neuro doctors will not come exam her if her ammonia is high because it will not be a valid test. Today we were given the option of continuing treatment as we have been but little to no hope of it doing anything, waiting on the neuro exam or halting all care. Our first question was how we could donate her organs.

We met with the organ retrieval person and she had put Addy's organs out locally. Because the doctors were not able to diagnose Addy, no one was interested because there is a chance that whatever she has can be transferred to the recipient. This actually happened to us a while ago. A liver became available but there was a chance another disease could come along with it so the doctors denied it. Now her organs are being put on the national list to see if anything is interested. This takes several hours and if someone is interested, Addy has to be declared brain dead by the hospital. That puts us at waiting around 24 hours for all the necessary tests.

Today Addy was baptized with her family around her. Thank you Pastor Dairel and Cindy for coming on such short notice.

We want to thank everyone who has supported is in any way during all this. We always knew Addy was a special girl and we know that God just misses her and wants her back.