The News Gets Worse
“She was just increasingly declining, really fast.” Nicole said of the time in the hospital. Two days after they admitted Marianna into the hospital, doctors declared that she needed more help than they originally thought. So, on July 10th, she was airlifted to University of Iowa’s Children’s Hospital to begin dialysis as her liver was largely damaged. The news was not looking good, as her condition was stable but not getting any better. “”Hour by hour, it just got worse,” Shaun recalls.