Mikayla’s daughter

Slow morning and day.  No study cause Susan wasn’t feeling well. Passing on quilt pieces.  Got email for Pete and our will. This is tje story of Chancey’s accident:

Sunday night was just another trip into the hills to ride our favorite horses that were visiting with grandpa and grandma. We had just finished up a trail ride before dark. I was leading her horse around the arena when he spooked. When he jolted she slid off the back and was kicked by a hoof. We quickly got her to Custer ED where she was stabilized then flight took her to Rapid City. She under went a cranectomy to decompress her brain and remove a depressed skull fragment. She was then shipped to Denver Children's.    She has sustained a significant injury. But she is a Schwedhelm and we don't back down.     Before she was intubated in Custer she opened her eyes and looked at everyone. She fought the Denver Flight crew. They said she was strong and trying to pull every tube they had out until they could sedate her. On arrival to ED in Denver they shut her sedation off and she moved every extremity and again tried to self extubate.     Her repeat CT has some issues but also given the extent of her injury looks pretty good.     She is hitting every goal the NSGY, PICU, and Trauma service set for her.     Mik and I have read books and spoken to her. Her pressures and HR rise. She breathes over the vent. And she wiggles her toes and hands. These are all reassuring neuro assessments.     We have a long ways to go, but she is our fiesty, spicy, wild child who is kicking ass and taking names.     Firstly I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming support and love you all have given my family.      To my team. As healthcare providers being in a bad pediatric trauma is the last place any of us want to be. Worstly when you know the patient and their family. I shouldn't have had to call upon you all. I am so proud of our organization, my team, the ED providers, and our Neurosurgery service. In those darkest moments you all stepped up and stepped in with courage, compassion, and saved my little girls life getting us to place where we have hope.      Today and tomorrow are big days, She woke up fighting. Momma talked to her and she wiggled her little body to tell us she is still in there this morning.

-The Schwedhelms Mikayla Schwedhelm.

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