As a heart kid, it’s a near certainty that at some point you’re going to crash. The halls are lined with crash carts in the CICU for that very reason. While there were many times my daughter danced on the edge of that dangerous territory, there was only one time she truly crashed. I happened … Continue reading Crashing
It was a Thursday. My daughter was in the NICU and had been since her birth a week prior. At one point she was on room air, but now she was intubated and had a feeding tube placed. A massive nitrogen tank had been wheeled over to her tiny bed and was hooked up to … Continue reading The First Time
The day I had been excitedly waiting for finally arrived. I was 18 weeks pregnant and getting the ultrasound to find out the gender of our baby. Myself and my family had been not-so-secretly hoping it was a girl, and I had a feeling that it was. I watched the monitor as the sonographer moved … Continue reading Bad News Baby
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