March 2nd 2013

Saturday we woke up and decided to start cleaning and than had plans to go hang out as a family. As we were getting ready Marian and I had a miscommunication. I had thought she was watching Ella on our bed and She thought I was. I turned around for a second and heard a big boom. I turned around and Ella was laying on her back on the ground. She didn't move or make a sound was just looking around. I picked her up and she vomited all over, her eyes were going different directions and that is when I started to panic. I called the neurosurgeon and he said that she should be seen. I didn't know if I should call 911 or drive her to the hospital. Matt said get her to Jordan Valley since its the closest hospital and he would stay home and get Brayden ready and be over. As Marian and I was walking out to the car to leave Ella started to slowly drift off asleep. Marian helped me by making sure she was still breathing and trying to wake her up till we got to the hospital. The hospital was very concerned about her and did a CT Scan and Shunt series to make sure her shunt was okay and not broke. During all of this Ella slept. She woke up for the doctor for about 10 minutes and was back asleep. Everything came back okay on the shunt, but the doctor was still concerned because of Ella sleeping so much. So he called Primary Children's in SLC to see if we should life flight her or transport her to Primary's to be evaluated. Dr Walker one of the neurosurgeons was very concerned and asked for Ella to be transported by ambulance to Primary Children's. So I got into an ambulance with Ella and we went for a ride to Primary Children's. Ella cried the whole way, she was blowing big booger bubbles out of her mouth. So the EMT got out a suction machine and suctioned the boogers out of her mouth. By the time we got to Primary's Ella was so mad that she hit the EMT and was very upset with me. She calmed down as I picked her up out of the car-seat out of the ambulance. We than spent a few more hours at Primary's having Ella's CT Scan and Shunt Series looked over by doctors. Ella slept again the whole time we were there till we were about to be discharged. Ella was diagnosed with a bad con-cushion and we were told to watch her. The next day she seemed fine and than vomited two more times in a matter of 10 minutes.  After that she seemed to do pretty good the rest of the day. What we learned..... That we can not trust Ella to be left alone. She has become very strong and able to move, roll anywhere. I have beat myself up over this because I the mother that is very protective of my children let my daughter down. Thank goodness for the love, prayers and support we have. Ella is now back to herself and doing great!