I am a grandmother, here at the ACH. My granddaughter was brought in on Friday and just diagnosed with Influenza. She is only 2 months old and was born a preemie. She is on a ventilator, has an arterial line, feeding tube, NG tube, catheter, she is receiving breathing treatments that she continuously desats on and they have to bag her. She is taking antibiotics, along with Lasix to help eliminate the fluid that is building in her. She left home that morning to go to an eye doctor appointment to ending up in the ICU a few hours later. For anyone reading this post, I just want you to know how serious this flu is. For the time span that my family and I have been here with her, there have been numerous children brought into the PICU with the same symptoms. This flu is very dangerous and is attacking rapidly. I would warn anyone with children to take all necessary precautions with your children, so that they are not watching them fight for thier lives as we are. Sometimes it is just the smallest things, like handwashing that makes the biggest difference.
