How did we get the name of this website? The day Brandy went back to the PICU on January 18th the nurse had written on the dry-erase board that has the patient's name and the date: "Brandy's Ballroom"
When I went into labor at 26 weeks the doctors said that 90% of women who go into labor this early deliver within 2 weeks. By God's grace...I made it an additional 10 weeks.
If I would have delivered Brandy at 26 weeks she would have had about a 20% chance of surviving. If I delivered at 28 weeks the odds of her surviving would have jumped to 80%.
The blood pressure flowing through her lungs was so high as a result of the defects in Brandy's heart that if we would have waited longer to have surgery there probably would have been permanent damage to her lungs.
Brandy had several pulmonary hypertension episodes on the 18th of January which eventually led to her heart stopping. Having a pulmonary hypertension episode as far out of surgery as Brandy was only happens to about 5% of kids. The surgeon said that he usually only sees this problem in kids from India.
70% of kids who have an episode like Brandy did on January 18th can never be resuscitated.
