Prayers for Staysha

Below is what I received from Tara and I want to share this with all of you. Staysha is such a precious little girl. She could use all the prayers in the world right now. I encourage people to comment so I can pass this on to the family. THANKS

We took Staysha to the ER in Brookings on Sunday, March 9th b/c we were pretty sure that she had Influenza beings as my step-daughter had it a week prior. Sure enough she tested positive for Influenza B ( the worst kind). We went home to rest and at 2am Monday morning, she spiked a temp of 105.7...so we brought her to the Sanford hospital in SF. She was having a tough time breathing so they put her on oxygen right away and also got an IV started. She was transferred from the ER to her room within a few hours and by 3pm Monday, she was in the PICU. They felt that she needed to be closely monitored b/c of her breathing. She spent the rest of Monday and all of Tuesday in there and then they moved her out to the regular peds floor on Wednesday. They did take the oxygen off of her thinking that she was getting better with the neb treatments. That didn't last long...she kept having panic attacks. So the oxygen went back on. She was only in that room until Thursday afternoon and then they moved her over to another wing on the peds floor so she could be on a central monitor that the nurses watch constantly. Thursday night was especially bad...she was up every half hour going to the bathroom and continued to have panic attacks b/c she could not breath. She kept telling me that she was going to die. That was extremely hard to hear! Friday morning they took her down to the OR to do a bronchoscopy on her. That is where they stick a camera down her throat to see if they can find the problem. They worked on her for a little over an hour and came back and said that there was a bunch of mucus like junk in her trachea. It was blocking her airway and that was what was causing her to have the panic attacks. There was only a hole the size of a pea to breath through. No wonder she thought that she was dying....she felt like she was suffocating!!! They did inabate her ( put a breathing tube down her throat) and she is paralyzed right now. They want to keep her that way so she doesn't move and it gives her a chance to heal a little. Friday and Saturday were as normal as they possibly could be and then on Sunday her right lung collapsed. There was a cyst like pocket that burst and that is what caused her lung to do that. So she now has a chest tube in her as well. Today will determine what happens from here. They will go in and do another bronch on her to see how everything looks. We will then find out when they plan on bringing her off the breathing machine. So please pray for her b/c I can't go home without her!!!