As many of you know, my sister Hanna Terill and her husband Chris Terrill had a beautiful girl on July 17th: Finley Reese Terrill. Some may not know that after one week of life, Finley was beginning to have breathing and eating problems. On August 2nd 2008, she stopped breathing and was life flighted to primary childrens hospital in Salt Lake City. She had to be fed through tubes in order to eat, and put on oxygen to breathe.
Things have slowly been improving: Finley can now eat, but cannot get off the oxygen without having major problems. They have been running tests all week but are still unsure as to what virus is causing these problems. She has pneumonia and a very bad case of reflux It is so severe that once she is able to breathe on her own, she will still need to take medication for the first year of her life up to her entire life, depending on how much improvement is made.
At this time our family and friends are reaching out to the community to help the Terrill's in their time of need. We are holding a potato bar for the community and invite all to come out and support this wonderful family.
Potato Bar and Dessert
Wednesday August 13, 2008
held at the Iona City Building @6:30 P.M.
in the south shelter (next to the ball diamond)
*Please bring your blankets and chairs
Cost of admission is $5 per person or $20 per family.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Terill Family at this time. If you would like to make a donation you can do so by sending payment to
East Idaho Credit Union
P.O. Box 1865
Idaho Falls, ID. 83403
(Please make checks payable to "The Terrill Family Fund"
August 08, 2008
Sweet Huckleberry Finley
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I hope that everything will go O.K. in the comming weeks and months. Thank you for sharing these touching pictures.
I had no idea about all of this. It is so hard to watch a little baby go through all of that. We will try to come and I will post this to my blog to spread the word. The only thing is the time is missing on the potato bar, you have the day and the place but no time.
Oh I my heart just hurts whenever I hear about your poor little niece. We will be there to support your family. Let me know if you need any equipment for the event, I have a basement full of it! She is continually in our prayers!
I want to hear all about it and know what kind of turn out ya get! I wish I were there to help!
I am so sorry your family is going through this. Do they have a carepage? I can relate to what is going on with them as I just had a daughter born with a heart defect and spent two weeks at Primary Children's with her as she had open-heart surgery.
I will be praying for your whole family and that the excellent doctors there can find out exactly what is wrong so that they can form a plan to resolve it.
Amber Slatosky, Mom to Joseph (2 years old) and Juliet (1 month old, born with Transposition of the Great Arteries). Juliet has a carepage under JulietSlatosky
What a beautiful baby, we're sorry to hear that she's having so much trouble right now. Hopefully everything will improve in the coming months - keep us posted. We want to do something sometime too! We need to have dinner and play games or something!
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