{"id":17730,"date":"2018-08-07T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=17730"},"modified":"2023-06-23T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:55:52","slug":"relying-on-a-collection-of-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/relying-on-a-collection-of-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Relying on a collection of angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_17733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17733\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17733\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee-1024x729.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee-768x547.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee-150x107.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093506\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0004.jpgeee-200x142.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelai Rodriguez, 11, warms up before playing a match with her volleyball team, The Speeding Turtles. Photos by Mark Reis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lorelai Rodriguez is a typical 11-year-old girl. She loves to talk. Her favorite singer is Taylor Swift and she has a talent for Hip Hop dancing and volleyball. Her favorite foods include French fries and potato chips.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not so typical about Lorelai is everything else. She has an inner strength, resiliency and positivity that belie her youth. She manages a long list of health challenges with a grace that few learn in a lifetime, let alone one short decade.<\/p>\n<p>Lorelai was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 4; juvenile arthritis at age 6; POTS \u2013 Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome \u2013 at age 7; psoriasis at age 10 and psoriatic arthritis before her 11<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>She has seen the inside of hospitals from New Mexico to Seattle and now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-memorial-hospital-central\/\">UCHealth Memorial Hospital <\/a>in Colorado. A few months ago, she had a Brain MRI (routine for her seizures since it had been a while since her last scan), and an MRI to look at her TMJ (temporomandibular joint), as there was concern her arthritis was having an impact on this joint (locking, clicking, etc.). The MRI revealed more than anticipated. She had arthritis in her TMJ, a mal rotated L hippocampus, and severe sinus disease affecting all of her sinus cavities. In an immunosuppressed child this can be dangerous when the \u201cdirty dish water\u201d so to speak is just sitting there with no place to drain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how, despite everything, she\u2019s always OK,\u2019\u2019 Jennifer Rodriguez said of her daughter. \u201cShe\u2019ll always be the most positive, no matter what it is. If you say something negative, she\u2019ll always pick out the best quality of any situation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17734\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17734\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093604\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0094.jpgeee-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelai Rodriguez, 11, gets a hug and a kiss from her dad, Dustin Rodriguez, between sets during a match with her volleyball team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe can be at a restaurant, and we haven\u2019t seen the waitress in forever, and she\u2019ll say mom, \u2018You don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going through,\u2019\u2019 Jennifer said.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of wisdom comes when you\u2019ve been through a lot. Lorelai, born in New Mexico, began experiencing health problems while she sat at her desk in pre-school. She was using red and blue crayons to color a hot air balloon when, inexplicably,\u00a0 she fell out of her desk and struck her head on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Lorelai started writhing and spitting a foam-like substance. Her teacher ran to her, picked her up and carried her to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t remember any of it,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cBut my parents told me that I didn\u2019t remember who anyone was. I went to the doctor and my dad was very sad because I couldn\u2019t remember him. \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The diagnosis: Epilepsy, a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17736\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17736\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093750\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0159.jpgeee1.webp\" alt=\"Jen Rodriguez caresses the face of her daughter, Lorelai.\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093750\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0159.jpgeee1.webp 724w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093750\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0159.jpgeee1-217x300.webp 217w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093750\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0159.jpgeee1-109x150.webp 109w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093750\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0159.jpgeee1-200x276.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen Rodriguez wipes a tear from\u00a0 the face of her daughter, Lorelai Rodriguez, 11, following her volleyball team&#8217;s loss in a volleyball match.\u00a0Photo by Mark Reis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Epilepsy, Lorelai said, causes what she calls \u201cauras.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything in your vision goes foggy and you can\u2019t see around. Everything is just dizzy and it feels like the entire room is just spinning and spinning,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>The epilepsy diagnosis was the first of many diagnoses. She began exhibiting signs of rheumatoid arthritis to her pediatrician at the age of 5, but due to a lack of pediatric rheumatology resources in New Mexico the family moved had moved to Seattle by the time she was 6. This way they could be closer to specialists at the Children\u2019s Hospital there. She was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis and received treatment within months of living there. Not long afterward, at age 7, she was diagnosed with POTs, a condition in which a change from lying to standing causes an abnormally large increase in her heart rate.<\/p>\n<p>At her school in Woodland Park, the gym teacher modified exercises so Lorelai would not have to bend over, since this would cause her to lose consciousness frequently. About the age of 10, doctors began to notice red patches on Lorelai\u2019s skin, and they diagnosed her with psoriasis, and a few months later, when her nails began to deform, dent and thin, she received a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>When Lorelai tries to tell her schoolmates about all of the challenges that she faces, her friends are incredulous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends don\u2019t believe me,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI\u2019m like, seriously, I have this and it is a big thing and a friend, she says, \u2018You don\u2019t have it.\u2019 Epilepsy and arthritis, they don\u2019t believe me \u2013 not even the teachers.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She once asked a teacher for permission to leave class and go to the school nurse to get her arthritis medication, and the teacher replied, \u201cYou don\u2019t have arthritis,\u2019 \u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>Every Saturday, without fail, Lorelai gets a shot for her arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grind my teeth if I\u2019m scared, nervous, anything like that,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cSo I always grab a wash cloth or something to bite on so I don\u2019t ruin my teeth. I do that every Saturday so I bite on something or I squeeze my dad\u2019s hand. Every time I take my shot, I lay on my dad.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She also relies on a collection of angels and a Jesus doll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a statue figure, and he is big \u2026 and I\u2019ll hang on to him and he makes me feel better,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>A few months back, doctors told Lorelai that she would need surgery to clear obstruction in her sinuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing into the hospital that day, she was a ball of nerves. Her anxiety level was through the roof, and we were having a hard time calming her down,\u2019\u2019 Jennifer said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17737\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17737\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093928\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0102.jpgeee1.webp\" alt=\"An 11-year-old girl anticipates a volleyball serve from opposing team\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093928\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0102.jpgeee1.webp 667w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093928\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0102.jpgeee1-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/07093928\/04_12_18-LORELAI-UCHEALTH0102.jpgeee1-100x150.webp 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelai Rodriguez, 11, during a match with her volleyball team, The Speeding Turtles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While preparing for surgery, a pre-op nurse took Lorelai\u2019s vital signs and talked with her. Lorelai began to calm down. The anesthesiologist and her surgeon assured her everything would be alright and the OR nurse assured Lorelai that all would be OK. The OR nurse called Jennifer every hour with an update.<\/p>\n<p>Once in the OR, Lorelai became frightened and said she didn\u2019t want to go through with surgery. Her mother stayed with her until anesthesia was administered.<\/p>\n<p>When Lorelai woke up from surgery, the feeling of being able to breathe was dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could breathe out of both sides of my nose; I never knew breathing was supposed to feel that way,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>She recently returned to Memorial Hospital to meet with caregivers and tell them: \u201cThank you for the surgery. I can breathe.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorelai Rodriguez is a typical 11-year-old girl. She loves to talk. Her favorite singer is Taylor Swift and she has a talent for Hip Hop dancing and volleyball. 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