Brooklyn has been discharged from hospital after a series of - TopicsExpress



          

Brooklyn has been discharged from hospital after a series of follow up blood tests and clinically looking so much better. They have started her on cyclosporine and increased her dose of steroids to start the journey on this new treatment. Although the coincidental reaction that Brooklyn had on the biologic, the doctor says we will need to try it again, or look at another, in about 2 months in order to get the arthritis under control. Its become a little more complicated since being here in Cape Town because were now also treating a variation of HLH called MAS, which is caused by Juvenile Arthritis. Hence the biologics. The last week has been emotionally charged because it felt (a) like we could have lost her a week ago, and (b) like we were back to square one right in the beginning with the fevers, rash and everything else. We would like to just give our sincere gratitude to EVERY ONE OF YOU that has been there for us, loving us, supporting us, and take the time to share in this journey. We really pray that you all are blessed immensely. On Monday, we return to Red Cross to do more labs and discuss where we are with Brooklyns levels of treatment. We will most likely still be in Cape Town for a while longer. We will try and keep updates more frequent, Sams just been down with the flu whilst we have been staying at the hospital in ICU with Brooklyn this past week.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:17:14 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015