Chicken Pox can KILL YOU

[Saint in Paradise]

Just seen this on another website, as it happened in the UK I thought I would post it here.

 

This little girl is NOT my grandchild but here is "her" story quite scary and don't forget this disease

can be caught by all ages.

 

 

Please share the word that chicken pox is not something to take lightly"

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Libbies-Page/521044187938115

What happened written by Libbie aged 3, with the help of her mum

 

Hello, my name is Libbie Faye Handley (aged 3) and this is my story

 

At Christmas 2012 just after we had been to Euro Disney, my big sister Tialer got chicken pox. The 5th January 2013 was my 3rd birthday which as I had been to Disney before Christmas, I didn't have a party but went out with my mummy, sister, grandma, uncle Biggz, Suzanne and baby Bella. I had lots of fun.

 

The week after I too got chicken pox but also a high temperature so mummy took me to the Drs and then to Tameside hospital near where I live. They kept me in as they thought I might have meningitis too. The next morning I couldn't breathe, so the North West and North Wales Transports Service (NWTS) kept me breathing and took me to the Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital (RMCH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

 

I was getting more sick and turned blue so they had me baptised here in ICU. It was then decided by the Lead consultant of the NWTS team and the RMCH Drs that I was too sick to be treated here as they hadn't the equipment, so I needed to go to Alder Hey Childrens Hospital (AHCH) ICU in Liverpool. Again NWTS organised the transfer and prepared me for the journey that would save my life and also prepare me for the treatment I would receive. I have a nickname at NWTS ..."ECMO LIbbie" :-)

 

As soon as I arrived at AHCH, I had a cardiac arrest and I was very poorly and still blue. They put me on an Ecmo machine (that acted as my heart and lungs and put oxygen into my blood) and dialysis (that acted as my kidneys and cleaned all the toxins out) as my body had totally shut down, then put me in an induced coma and put lots of antibiotics into me as I had Strep A and Septicaemia. Things didnt look very good for me but the Drs and nurses looked after me 24 hours a day, changing equipment and drugs to keep me alive.

 

On day 7 I was taken off dialysis and on day 8 taken off Ecmo but kept in a coma and on ventilation as I had lots of ulcers inside my mouth and they wanted them to get better first. On day 11 I was taken off sedation and ventilation but I was twitching and hallucinating - I didnt like bits like dried skin or plaster marks on anything and anyone, and I wanted to pull them off. My mummy says I have OCD because I still don't like them. I had a brain scan and mummy was told little things might not work. I couldn't talk because my throat was sore with the tubes.

 

I then moved to a general ward (E3) and had my own room. I still had lots of Drs and nurses coming and physio every day. I started eating and then talking and then walking on my wobbly legs. They were very happy and were going to discharge me, but then I got a rash which they thought was Measles so I was put into isolation for 5 days and onto more antibiotics.

 

On Tuesday 12th February (Pancake Day), i was allowed out of my room and told I could go out of the hospital for a few hours. Grandad Bob brought Tialer, mummy got me ready and we went to Ronald McDonald (where mummy was staying) and grandma made pancakes. I was happy, but sad when "my Tialer" had to go home :-(.

 

On Thursday 14th February I was allowed to go home.

 

I made a very fast recovery and the Drs and nurses called me the "Miracle" baby.

 

All these divisions of the NHS helped save my life and the three hospitals get lots of monies from charities, so my family have decided to help raise money for NWTS.

 

They had never heard of NWTS, but they were set up in November 2010 and made up of a dedicated team of Intensive Care paediatricians, doctors and nurses who transport critically ill children throughout the North West and North Wales to specialist hospitals like AHCH and RMCH, 24 hours a day 7 days a week with another team (made up of Consultants, Drs, Nurses from the 2 hospitals) for support.These dedicated people along with the three hospitals I attended saved my life and me and my family will always be very grateful to them that they did.

 

This part of our NHS service is still new and there are things they still require and me and my family want to help, as without them I probably wouldnt be writing this (well my grandma Jean wouldn't :-) ), and we want you to help too.

 

So my grandma Jeans friend Leanne has set a goal to swim 400 lengths of a standard 25m pool in order to raise money to help them buy some more equipment, like breathing machines and manikins (for training), and we would like you to help us by sponsoring her.

 

Also if you want to raise money to help them by doing an event then please use this page to donate and I will add it.

 

I haven't set a goal to reach, but every penny we raise will help provide equipment or training that will save the life of a child like me.

 

My grandma and granddad Bob have also had 20 sets of boys and 20 sets of girls bedding sets made forAHCH ICU so that they have there own dedicated linen.

 

I want to say a big, big thank you to everyone who helped to save my life...its a small word with a big meaning and said from my heart xxx

 

Can I ask all you nice facebook people to like my page and ask all your facebook friends to do the same. It may bring to their attention how dangerous chicken pox can be and prevent someone else going through what I went through. They may also be so kind as to make a small donation to

 

Leanne Palmer is fundraising for CENTRAL MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY

 

Thank you Libbie aged 3

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Gosh she writes very well for a 3 year old. They should get her working as a spin doctor in their PR department.

[Weston Super Saint]

A sob story posted on facebook isn't always the 'truth'.

[Saint in Paradise]

Sorry to say WSS but I have spoken to the grandfather and it is genuine.

[sussexsaint]

Sadly chickenpox can kill and have seen it happen. Can cause a nasty meningitis. This is the reason we vaccinate against measles mumps and rubella, yes the serious complications are rare but they are awful when they happen. Chickenpox is particularly vicious as a virus, not only does it scar most who have it, again some severely, but it never leaves you and takes up residence in your spine to reappear years later as shingles.

They were close to rolling out a vaccination programme when the MMR hysteria broke so it was shelved. It should be vaccinated against

[tpbury]

Grrrgh! For every well nourished unvaccinated western child, there are thousands of undernourished 3rd world kids who will die without medicine. Vaccination worked well in the 20th Century in the West and it can work for those poor kids in Africa/Asia. Don't know why we should hysterically prop up global Pharma companies by deciding that non lethal diseases (in well nourished western states) should be vaccinated against. Shut happens, but we don't all have to jump.

[ART]

The horror of Chicken Pox is the virus remains dormant forever in one's body. At anytime in one's life when the body immune system is weak or under threat from severe illness, like cancer, it can reappear with very bad consequences. Anyone who has suffered Shingles or Zona knows of the suffering and danger the virus, one long thought over in childhood, poses to one's life,

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_zoster