Bar Rescue star Rob Floyd had all of it till tragedy hit his household.
Floyd, 57, and his spouse, Megan, have been fortunately elevating daughters Ella and Indigo and navigating his newfound success with season 5 of the Paramount sequence when their then-youngest collapsed. The household quickly discovered Indigo, then 3, couldn't transfer the precise facet of her physique.
“We thought perhaps she'd been bit by a snake,” Megan, 43, told People in an interview revealed Sunday, August 24. The household headed to the emergency room, the place they have been advised Indigo had suffered a stroke.
Docs finally recognized Indigo with stage 4 Moyamoya, a uncommon and incurable mind illness that may cause narrowing of the carotid arteries, which in flip impacts the movement of blood to the mind and might result in strokes just like the one Indigo suffered.
“It didn't make any sense,” Rob added. “It was the very last thing we anticipated.”
Indigo was transferred to the pediatric unit on the UCLA Medical Heart and underwent three mind surgical procedures. “She went from being this lovely 3-year-old with no medical trauma to impulsively being a little bit potato,” Megan recalled. “However she was nonetheless cognitively current, which was actually powerful. Truthfully, I simply sat and cried by means of a whole lot of it.”
Indigo spent one other two months within the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and Rob and Megan would “get one, two hours' sleep, however you'd be scared to loss of life in case you weren't current [if something happened].”
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The household continues to be at all times prepared for one more journey to the ER, Megan added. “We have been there each single month for a minimum of every week, for nearly a yr and a half,” she elaborated. “However Indigo's a fighter of the very best order. Giving up has by no means even entered her thoughts.”
Although there isn't any treatment for the situation, with correct medicine Indigo can dwell a full life that may embrace marriage, kids and extra if she needs it. The illness is “progressive” Megan added, and “we simply have to sustain with it.”
Today Indigo has a service animal: a canine who's skilled to alert if she is about to expertise a seizure.
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Experiencing Indigo's illness has additionally put the household in touch with so many individuals who've supplied help, Rob mentioned. “It's superb what occurs when it's important to depend on the kindness of strangers,” he shared. “Our Muslim neighbors, who we beforehand didn't know, would drop off dinner 3 times every week. Now they're good associates.”
The hospital workers has additionally performed an important position in supporting the household. He continued, “The nurses would take our garments to their very own houses and wash them for us once we have been sleeping there. The kindness we have been proven was simply unimaginable. We now know what it's prefer to be at midnight and have full strangers come to our support and save us.”
