Prayer Request for Baby Renee

Update: Baby Renee passed away yesterday. She’s being held in the arms of Jesus now. Please keep Who Dat Tiger and his family in your prayers.

Original Post: I’m not sure if everyone remembers this, but one of the posters started a prayer request thread for his baby daughter several months ago. Since then, I have been following his precious baby’s FB page (Rally for Renee) and praying for her to get better. A few days ago, she was able to go home. Unfortunately, she had a setback and is now fighting for her life. If you believe in God and the power of prayer, please pray for this baby girl.

Below is what his wife posted on FB today:

This may be the most difficult post I ever had to write, but we are in need of a miracle. We have been blessed with so many and I have to ask you for as many prayers as possible for one more.

Saturday morning Renée was irritable and then by mid morning had a high grade fever. We took her to STPH ER to be checked out. Her fever wasn’t going down despite several doses of Tylenol and Motrin. She was started on antibiotics, but that would take time to set in. Renée had run high fevers before, but has never not responded to Tylenol. She was admitted for observation since her fever was still very high. With all of the stress, she ended up going into a pulmonary hypertensive crisis. For the first time in our lives we saw her heart rate go above her paced setting of 140! She was admitted to PICU and shortly after had a small seizure. At this point an ambulance was en route to transfer her back to OMC PICU. In the meantime she had another, prolonged seizure leading to cardiac arrest. This seizure was not responding to meds. They ultimately had to drill a hole in her leg bones to administer immediate life saving medication because they couldn’t get iv access. This amount of medication needed to save her infiltrated her leg tissues causing major damage to nerves, muscles, vasculature, and skin. Once she was stabilized, she was airlifted to main campus at 3 am where she is back in the CVICU we just left.

She is very critical right now due to everything her poor little body has been through. We don’t know about the recovery of her brain, liver, kidneys and gut after not receiving blood and oxygen during her code episode. She doesn’t have any pulses below her knee in her left leg right now. We still don’t know what caused her fever after her viral panel came back negative. She is on iv antibiotics now.

We are so heart broken that our beautiful miracle baby has to go through all of this. She is so undeserving after all she has fought to overcome. Please keep her close in your prayers.