Nine years after the miracle baby, Ottawa community rallies to build new home for family

by:Yovog     2023-10-19
She is called Baby miracle.
Osain McKenzie has two more months left in her mother\'s womb until she becomes the first Canadian to successfully undergo revolutionary heart surgery.
CHEO\'s ultrasound showed that the News of the birth of ossena made headlines nationwide.
Canada has tried this procedure twice but has not succeeded.
\"What they did saved the left side of her heart,\" Vicki said . \".
Vicki and Ian McKenzie have been told that their daughter will live a normal life in addition to life --
Short breath.
She may not run as fast as her brother Gavin and Owen, but she will run one day.
This is not the case.
A few days after the birth of osene, he suffered a series of strokes and cerebral hemorrhage on the operating table.
Nine years later, she couldn\'t walk or talk, but she was in the center of Mackenzie House.
\"She played very badly.
\"I\'m not the one to fight with her,\" Vicki said . \".
Cerebral palsy in oxaneThough non-
She is very smart and likes to draw and play in the kitchen.
She communicated through a home-designed computer and sign language.
Her lungs are weak and she often coughs.
She is susceptible to infection and it is not uncommon to stay in the hospital for a period of time each winter.
Her mother said that while it would take longer to do something simple, such as opening the door, Osina was determined to do something herself.
\"She has to fight for everything, but she does it with a smile.
If I had a bad day, I would have looked at her and she didn\'t look so bad.
She is very popular in this House.
\"The problem is at Gatineau\'s house.
In the three-story high, Océane is hard to walk around and she spends most of her time in the living room and kitchen on the first floor.
Outside, she was in a wheelchair, but indoors, she was walking around in her ass.
It is necessary to lift Osain upstairs to her bedroom.
As far as her age is concerned, she is very small and weighs just over 40 pounds, but Vicki has pulled her back, neck and shoulders behind her back.
Gavin, 16, and Owen, 14, are always willing to help.
Vicki tries to imagine what a house would look like for the needs of the family and starts to sketch.
This will be a bungalow next to Vicky and Ian\'s bedroom so they can help when she wakes up with a cough.
Everything must be bigger in order to accommodate a wheelchair.
The corridors and doors of the House are large and there is an accessible restroom and low counter in the bathroom, laundry and kitchen.
There will be a walk
On the ramp in the basement and front door.
But Vicki doesn\'t know how much it will cost to make her plan a reality.
She showed her painting to her colleague Mark Landry.
His son plays with Mackenzie boys on the hockey team.
Landry\'s company has built 100 houses this year, but it has never built such a house.
He is very interested. what he wants to do is not just give his family an estimate.
Landry asked an expert in construction technology to work out the plan.
The result is 1,680-square-
Foot bungalow with fully finished basement.
Landry called his subcontractors to see what they could do to reduce costs.
From surveyors to merchants, more than 25 construction professionals step up the provision of services and materials free, free or at a discount.
Nadine Miron, development and planning manager for building company lavendrye, said: \"The entire building community has just come together . \".
\"We are very moved by this case. we want to do more.
Everyone we talked to wanted to help.
\"This effort is still not going to be able to pay all the fees, and Vicki expects the family to still have a lot of mortgages.
Additional fees have been created.
The plan requires an elevator to the basement for about $20,000.
Now Gavin and Owen will be working in the finished basement with their own bathroom and kitchenette. The long-
The semester plan is to have your own apartment one day and enjoy independence when close to Vicki and Ian.
The wish list also includes a paved driveway so that Othello can use her modified bike, a home air purifier system for the lungs and a pool that can work out. A ground-
Last week, Vicki pressed the button to detonate the explosives that will begin the excavation process, holding a destruction ceremony for the project.
Miron said the House will be ready for check in on the 3 Th.
At the same time, ossena faces more obstacles.
Vicki says her two heart valves will eventually be replaced by donated valves, but the doctor is waiting for her to be as close to her full size as possible.
\"I am a happy mother. She’s alive.
Everything else is \"whatever you want \".
I can see her every day.
She is doing what she should not do.
\"She smiled, she smiled, she sat alone,\" she said . \".
\"We just need some place for her to do that.
\"When the baby is still in the womb, these are surgical corrections for congenital defects.
Interventions included blood transfusion and bladder stent, as well as surgery to correct heart defects and spina bifida.
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, which has a partnership with the Hospital for Sick Children.
The pregnant mother and fetus are treated in Mount Sinai and the baby is sent to the sick child for follow-up treatment immediately after birthup treatment.
The doctor prescribed painkillers and painkillers for her. A fine-
Her mother had a gauge needle inserted into her abdomen.
Surgeons use ultrasound as a guide to insert a needle into the left chamber of the heart of ossena.
A fuse passes through the valve and a small balloon catheter opens the aorta.
When her lungs mature and gain weight, Océane stays in the uterus for as long as possible.
She was born after a C-section.
She underwent up surgery two days and two weeks after her birth. They can be.
At the time of the birth of ossena, the intervention had only been tried twice in Canada and both failed.
At that time, in the United States, similar intra-uterine heart surgery had been tried 24 times. S.
Only half of the success.
Mount Sinai and sick children\'s hospital now carry out more than 100 fetal surgeries and surgeries in the uterus every year.
On May 2017, five days before the birth of Sebastian Havel, a surgical operation was performed on his heart to treat a serious congenital heart defect in which, blood was unavailable after Sebastian was born.
The operation in the uterus did not correct his condition.
Instead, it took some time so that the surgeon could solve the problem after he was born.
If surgery is not performed, the surgeon will have to open Sebastian\'s heart within three minutes of birth.
Intervention is believed to be the world\'s number one.
On June 2017, the team repaired a fetus called fetal fissure at 25 weeks of pregnancy.
The baby\'s mother, Romeila Son, recovered well and her baby girl, Eiko, weighed 2 lbs at birth.
45 kg at 36 weeks of pregnancy.
Eiko does not need further intervention in this situation, which usually causes permanent damage to the spinal cord and nervous system.
The province announced a $4 million establishment of the Ontario fetal center to strengthen the partnership between Mount Sinai and sick children\'s hospital.
The center will be one of the few in the world to offer a full range of specialized fetal procedures and procedures.
It will also have the largest training program in Canada.
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