Louise Robertson
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This is my baby daughter Louise. She was born 26 weeks premature. She spend 2 and a half months in SCBU in incubation. She was let home two weeks before her due date, which would have been 26 June. She had been home 4 months when she came down with what we thought was a chest infection. She was rushed to hospital in Bradford West Yorkshire, as she wasn't breathing properly. We spent the whole of the night feeding her with oxygen,
The next day they had to get a team from Leeds General intensive Care Unit. She was rushed straight there, and that's when they decided to take her straight down to theatre and we were told that she would need a trache inserted. The first two weeks were going really well. I came to terms with it and started my training. Then one morning we got a phone call asking us to go straight to the hospital, Louise was taken back to intensive care, she had stopped breathing! I was in a state of shock.
We had to wait 24 hours before they took her off sedation to see if she could manage to breath on her own. Also to see if she had any brain damage. Wednesday morning we went back at the hospital and she was sitting there smiling and back to her normal self.
It's been a week now and she is doing great and I am continuing with my training. It scared me a lot. My name is Tracey and I have another little girl who is 3 and a step daughter who is 4 and they call the tracheostomy tube Louise special necklace.
