Pray for Little Dayana!

The next morning we met up at the Quinta and waited for Dr. Karla to pick us up for the first day of work with Ryan and Debbie at the schools. However, I received a call from Dr. Karla that changed our plans for the day. Dayana Bello, the little 2 year old that I wrote about earlier, is still in intensive care and is in critical condition and we need to visit her and support her mother.  Dr. Karla and her husband, Jose Luis, arrived and greeted Ryan and Debbie. Then, off to the hospital we went…

                                                                                            

Dr. Karla went to the school to start consults and Ryan, Debbie and I went to the hospital to check on Dayana. She was still attached to the breathing machine, receiving strong antibiotics, and now on medicines for her heart. The Doctor did not like us in there and preferred that we get the information with the mother at 11am (which was in 15 minutes.) So after a quick visual assessment of Dayana’s frail condition, we went to see her mother. Her mother was sad in her eyes and was still spending the day and night on the cement outside the hospital with the other mothers. I went with the mother to get the report from the Doctor and he was very vague. He said they were doing all they could, and that the infectious disease doctor had changed the antibiotics a couple times, she was on meds to help support her heart function, and a couple of other things that neither the mother nor myself understood…something about a choque? Very frustrating that Dayana’s mother waits all day to hear from the doctor and he doesn’t really say anything…ugh!

So I called her lung doctor to get a more sufficient story about how Dayana is doing. He told us to call back around lunchtime since he would have  more information about her then. Okay…so we did what we could to help…we loved on the mom.  If nothing else, this mother was going to feel supported and loved through this process. Debbie gave her some food, we all hugged her and listened. I told her that Dayana was in critical condition and receiving all the help she needs. I then told her I would call her as soon as I knew more information. We hugged her again and left with heavy hearts. This was quite the first experience for Debbie and Ryan.

We then went to the school in the oriental market. The school is right in the middle of the busy, impoverished, cluttered, chaotic market…urban poverty Nica style. Debbie, Ryan and I walked around the school, and helped Dr. Karla finish a few consults…then went off to lunch.

We went to the same little eatery we always do. Big plate of traditional Nica food for 1.50 dollars. The meats of the day were cow heart, chicken with a cow tongue sauce, or fried chicken….Debbie and Ryan got the fried chicken. Spending time with Dr. Karla and Jose Luis was nice at lunch. Dr. Karla then called Dayana’s lung doctor and we got the update…Dayana’s pneumonia infection had spread all over her body and was in her blood stream. She was not responding to medicines well. Her kidney function is poor. Her blood pressure and pulse keep dropping. She seems to be having multi-organ failure….meaning not good….might die. Pray for Little Dayana and her family!

Love,

Ayla Landry

“Where there is faith, there is love;
Where there is love, there is peace;
Where there is peace, there is God;
And where there is God; there is no need.” ~Leo Tolstoy