3-Year-Old Ventilator Dependent Preemie Phalynn Graham has Never Gone Home from Intensive Care!

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3-Year-Old Ventilator Dependent Preemie Phalynn Graham has Never Gone Home from Intensive Care!

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In this week’s blog I want to share a story of a 3 year old child Phalynn Graham who has never left Intensive Care since her birth.

3-year-old ventilator dependent preemie Phalynn Graham has never gone home from Intensive Care

Phalynn was born two months premature and her lungs therefore were never fully developed. She therefore has been ventilator dependent since day one of her young life and she also has a tracheostomy.

With the work we are doing here at INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME we know that we can help Phalynn and her family by getting her out of Intensive Care and taking her home. There is no need to keep ventilated adults and children in Intensive Care for longer than necessary once they are medically stable.

Here is Phalynn’s story

3-year-old preemie has never gone home

How Ranken-Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital in Maryland Heights has become her home away from home and given her family hope.

Author: Mike Bush

Published: 6:29 AM EST January 8, 2018

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. – At Ranken-Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital in Maryland Heights, Missouri, some of the smallest people face the tallest challenges. But they often do it with a smile on their face.

When 3-year-old Phalynn Graham is around you can save on electricity because she lights up the room.

“We’ve all fallen in love with Phalynn,” noted Ranken-Jordan social worker Katie Luner.

But kids are born in hospitals, they’re not supposed to grow up in one.

She came into this world two months early and her lungs weren’t fully developed. Instead of getting attached to her mom, she was attached to machines.

“We lost her dad when she was two months old so I haven’t enjoyed my baby because she hasn’t been home,” said Phaylnn’s mom Tarvarshay Graham through tears...

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