Please help a preemie

[2bliss]

Did I miss the banking details? If financial help is welcomed we need where to send it to.

 

Dear TheJ, my bad!   Any financial help can be deposited in the following account:

 

N. Stieger

FNB cheque/current account

551 511 83 817

250 655

 

Thank you again.  Everyone is so kind and encouraging.

[PhilipV]

My wife donates breastmilk. She has never been able to donate blood, so donating breastmilk is something she is proud of. The donated milk is used to feed prem babies.

She has managed to donate 41liters in the last 7 months.

I'm going to show her this thread.

This will make it so much more tangible for her every time that she pumps out.

Edited August 10, 2017 by PhilipV

[2bliss]

My wife donates breastmilk. She has never been able to donate blood, so donating breastmilk is something she is proud of. The donated milk is used to feed prem babies.

She has managed to donate 41liters in the mast 7 months.

I'm going to show her this thread.

This will make it so much more tangible for her every time that she pumps out.

 

What a wonderful thing to do for babies she doesn't even know! 

 

 

Well, it seems the roller-coaster still hasn't stopped.  This morning she was stable, now Karmi is fighting an infection.  Things can change so quickly with preemies this small.  Please keep sending the good vibes her way...

[2bliss]

Karmi has a serious infection!    It was caused by her central venous line which will have to be removed now.  Cultures will reveal what the course of treatment should be.  A temporary line in a hand or foot will be placed for the additional feeding and medication she needs.  (OMG, those tiny little veins!)  Another large line will be placed surgically as soon as she is stable enough.

[Escapee..]

Shame man

Sending good vibes

[2bliss]

Donations to date: Please see image

Still needed:

- Some more Huggies Preemie nappies
- Avent breastmilk storage bags (using A LOT of these)

Financial contributions (total): R300 R600 R1460 R2000 R2100 R4100 R6600 R7100 R8150 R10 150 R10 250 R11 250 R11 750 R12 750

Thank you SO much to those who have donated, sent messages of support and are thinking of this baby and her parents in time of crisis.

EDIT: Financial contributions

Edited August 25, 2017 by 2bliss

[2bliss]

Update: Little one has pneumonia.  They have successfully moved her IV and are treating with antibiotics.  Unfortunately, they have to wait 3-5 days for the results of the cultures to be sure that they are treating with the right type of antibiotics.

[2bliss]

After being born via emergency C-section at 28 weeks gestational age, Karmi has now been fighting for life for three weeks.  At birth, she was smaller than most premature babies of that age, as twins always are.

 

I honestly believe that few adults would have survived what she has been through to date:

 

- Resuscitated 3 times

- Underdeveloped lungs

- Hole in her heart

- Respiratory distress syndrome requiring surfactants and ventilation to ensure oxygenation and to prevent lung collapse

- Anemia and multiple blood transfusions (due to all the blood tests and her little body not being able to produce red blood cells at a normal rate)

- Infection of her central venous line (a large IV necessary to deliver additional nutrition as well as medication)

- Pneumonia

 

This is where we stand now.  The pneumonia is currently the most serious problem.  Will update.

[Uni]

2bliss. Maybe speak to the parents and consider setting up a gofundme, you have a legit need and get to a bigger audience.

[2bliss]

2bliss. Maybe speak to the parents and consider setting up a gofundme, you have a legit need and get to a bigger audience.

 

Thank you, Uni.   I did not know about this platform.  Will definitely set up a campaign there.

 

Luckily her parents have a hospital plan at least, but as we all know, specialists charge way more that the rate approved by medical aid companies.  If all goes well, Karmi will be in hospital until mid- to late October with daily visits from her paediatrician.  You can imagine what that will amount to.  Her father has his own one-man business, but needs to take time off to be near his baby girl.  They are renting a small bachelor's flat near the hospital.  It all adds up.

 

And then there was also the funeral...

 

EDIT: Seems as though the GoFundMeSA site is not yet operational (see screenshot).

Edited August 11, 2017 by 2bliss

[TheJ]

Donations to date: Please see image

 

Still needed:

 

- Some more Huggies Preemie nappies

- Avent breastmilk storage bags (using A LOT of these)

 

Financial contributions (total): R300 R600 R1460

 

Thank you SO much to those who have donated, sent messages of support and are thinking of this baby and her parents in time of crisis.

 

EDIT: Financial contributions

 

R1460 seemed like such an arb amount so I have rounded it up to R2000 for you.

 

Hope it helps the parents a little bit.

Edited August 11, 2017 by TheJ

[2bliss]

R1460 seemed like such an arb amount so I have rounded it up to R2000 for you.

 

Hope it helps the parents a little bit.

 

Thank you so very much! Every donation helps a lot and means a lot.  Karmi's parents are so astounded and touched that strangers could care so much.  I think that knowledge is part of what keeps them going.

[Uni]

 

 

EDIT: Seems as though the GoFundMeSA site is not yet operational (see screenshot).

Can you not do it via the normal .com way? never tried it so not sure

 

https://www.gofundme.com/

 

i know there are  local crowd funding sites as well but the gofundme one is more solid and a bigger support base. 

[TheJ]

Can you not do it via the normal .com way? never tried it so not sure

 

https://www.gofundme.com/

 

i know there are  local crowd funding sites as well but the gofundme one is more solid and a bigger support base. 

 

I tried setting up campaigns for friends before and the general problem was that they can't/don't want to set up funds for non-USA based people.

 

Maybe it has changed in the meantime.

[2bliss]

they can't/don't want to set up funds for non-USA based people.

 

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This

[2bliss]

Karmi's mother:

 

(I'm sorry, this is in Afrikaans and I don't really know how to translate it due to the element of poetry.)

 

"My hart ry wipplank.  Vandag is ons harte in die hemel, waar sterre bollemakiesies slaan, daar speel ons met ons hemelkind Albertus.  Net om weer minute later langs sussie Karmi se ICU plastiekhokkie te staan en soebat by die Here.  Soebat dat God haar asb vir ons aardse bestaan moet spaar.

 

My Karmi vegter, met haar 1kg lyfie, moet nou longontsteking baklei, sy is terug op 'Darth Vader' suurstof masjien en hooflyn drippie moes gister deur 'n sjirurg se kennerhand van links na regs geskuif word.  Hul probeer nog infeksie-kiem vasstel.

 

Ons bly biddend en loof ons hemelse pa vir die magdom ondersteuning.  Vreemdelinge, vriende, familie en sommer net die sekuriteitswag by die ICU deur.  Almal bid vir Karmi.  Elke intreding vir haar en ons dra ons dag en nag.  Dankie is te klein.

 

Ek sing gereeld vir Karmi: 'Karmi is nie 'n stap soldaatjie nie... Karmi is Jesus se soldaatjie, ja meneer.'"