Hi my name is Christy Dunkelburger. I have three children Brendan,
Brooklyn and Riley. My husband Blake, we've been married for 21 years. The night of June 1st,
then we had just attended the Nidoran high school graduation at a horde park and we were coming home
to attend the project celebration that evening, and so we were all home getting ready to depart
to goes back to the high school for project celebration because that's what they were
holding it. I got the phone call that no parent ever wants to get, that you're it's been of a car
accident. And officer Guidry and told me that they would be transporting them the Acadia ambulance
to CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth Hospital. Well I went in to the ER and thankfully, the there weren't
you know many people in the waiting room and I told them who I was and that my daughters were
in route there and I think that my youngest Riley had just gotten there, and so that I needed them
to let me back because I need to be with her. And so when I got there I was transported back,
and we had Dr. Eve was our physician that was assigned to the girls and then when Brooklyn came
in of course she was more critical than Riley was and so they had already sent via trauma alert for
dust caps for to come in and begin on Brooklyn as well she just came just a little bit later
than Riley did. I was able to be with Riley and the nurses and the doctors everyone kept me very
well informed Brooklyn she was again a little more critical. I couldn't be in there with her
at first but they kept me there was always someone in and out or someone checking or someone sitting
or with me and and all of that so they I was very much kept well aware of what was going. For Riley,
she had fractured pelvic and that she had a little bit of a concussion and so they were able to give
her pain medicine and she was stable and so we were able to move her up to the fifth floor the
Pediatrics floor. Brooklyn was more critical so she had to be she had to receive blood and it's
just heroic efforts on everyone's part from Dr. Chavez part to Dr. Eve to the radiology Tech's
to the to the nurses everyone were true champions and saving my daughter's life. I just can't sing
it enough and that's what I've told you know the directors everyone that that is come in contact
with my daughter that she had been you know they saved her life that's all that that I can say they
treat her they they're there for me that they're there for my husband at every every aspect every
part of the team. There were people that came along that the child life coach Ashley is a hero
she kept up with Riley she come to see me every single day and even so Riley's departed, Brooklyn
16 did she still falls in my jurisdiction and I can't can't thank her enough. Josh up in ICU,
he came to work that Friday on June 2nd and he saw Blake and I the only people sitting in the
ICU waiting room and he come by and it's just it was a blessing come in okay Christy you know
I'll be right back well you know in a because we hadn't seen her yet when she moved up to ICU and
he just know the compassion and the nurses in ICU all of them we talked, we bonded,
they you know cried with me, they hugged me. I mean, I just can't say enough about it a memory
when you work in a facility and use your story it's it's just that you hear them, but then when
you live through it I know that I was in the best place possible and they saved my daughter's life.
It's just a complete collaboration of of all teams working together to save someone's life. We touch
every aspect of that clinical group everyone lab, radiology, nurses the physicians everything happy.
I feel like that my hospital has the best to offer and I couldn't imagine going anywhere else.