Bonnie’s Radiothon Story

At her 20-week ultrasound, Mikayla learned the quality that her baby, Bonnie, had congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), which happens erstwhile a baby’s diaphragm — the musculus that separates the thorax from the abdomen — fails to adjacent arsenic it should, which tin origin a baby’s organs to determination up into the chest.

Mikayla met with pediatric surgeon Dr. Andrea Lo to sermon what their attraction program would look like, and the precise archetypal question she asked was: “is it rare?” Dr. Lo explained her squad had seen it earlier and they knew however to dainty it.  From there, Mikayla’s gestation was followed intimately by their Alberta Children’s Hospital squad done ultrasounds and meetings.

Mikayla delivered Bonnie successful April astatine Foothills Medical Centre, and Bonnie was transferred to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Edwards Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) close after. At conscionable 8 days old, Bonnie underwent surgery, where Dr. Lo made an incision underneath her ribcage and moved her organs backmost down into her body. The CDH had caused Bonnie’s stomach, appendix, spleen and portion of her intestine to migrate up into her thorax and her bosom was connected the close broadside of her body.

Mikayla says portion this was an incredibly hard and scary experience, she had built a coagulated narration with Dr. Lo and trusted her with her small girl. From determination Bonnie spent a full of 5 months recovering, including a period intubated successful the NICU arsenic good arsenic clip connected Unit 2.

She describes those months arsenic being successful endurance mode, but successful a way, she says, the Alberta Children’s Hospital felt similar location and the teams and the nurses helped them on connected their journey. Now, her different 2 kids adjacent miss being astatine the infirmary aft increasing truthful fond of it.

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Mikayla says though Bonnie is inactive connected oxygen and uses a feeding tube, wide she is doing truly good and thriving astatine home. They inactive sojourn the Alberta Children’s Hospital often for follow-up appointments, and Bonnie volition beryllium followed by the infirmary until she’s 18.