Chloe’s Radiothon Story

For implicit 20 years, the Mueller family, who ain and run the Dairy Queen successful Shawnessy, person loved raising funds for the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation. Each twelvemonth they enactment successful DQ Miracle Treat Day, erstwhile nett proceeds from Blizzard® Treats are donated to enactment the 100,000 kids who trust connected the infirmary each year. They ne'er expected though that 1 day, their ain girl would beryllium 1 of those kids.

In May 2023, 17-year-old Chloe started having a atrocious sinus corruption and headache. Her household doc suggested it was a migraine oregon stress. Pain killers helped for a spot but erstwhile it came backmost a period later, accompanied by a precocious fever and nonaccomplishment of feeling successful her close leg, she was taken by ambulance to Emergency astatine the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

An MRI discovered Chloe had bacterial meningitis – she had humor clots and pockets of fluid each implicit her encephalon that was taking distant her quality to locomotion and she needed an exigency neurosurgery. Dr. Walter Hader performed a craniotomy, removing portion of her skull to drain the infectious fluid successful the backmost of her encephalon and she began 5 antithetic IV antibiotics to combat the infection. She remained successful infirmary 12 days arsenic she recovered and worked to regain mobility connected her close side, spending Miracle Treat Day not down the thrust done window, but alternatively successful hospital. She was capable to spell location connected IV antibiotics to combat disconnected the remainder of the infection, and erstwhile her appetite was back, the archetypal spot she went to was Dairy Queen of course.

However, erstwhile the antibiotics weren’t doing the trick, she returned to the infirmary for a 2nd MRI. The scan revealed the corruption had grown. She was admitted for different craniotomy, this clip astatine the beforehand of her encephalon by Dr. Jay Riva-Cambrin. That was extremity of June and by mid August, she was wholly recovered.

Today, Chloe is successful Grade 12 and has returned to moving astatine her parents’ Dairy Queen, and her school’s snowboarding squad and theatre program. She and her parents are truthful grateful for the world-renowned neurosurgery squad who were determination for her erstwhile she unexpectedly needed them. As longtime supporters, the hospital, and the generous assemblage who enactment it, mean truthful overmuch much to them now.