Last week I was sitting in the NICU and I looked over and found my self upset that another baby had made it onto the CPAP and Carter had not. This beautiful blessing was born about 4 days after Carter so had been there as long as us and gestationally just as challenged. On Saturday, we could tell he was having a bad day but this to me was just what Carter had gone through. On Sunday, he wasn't there. Please pray for him and his family. My heart breaks for them.
Carter's nurse asked me today why it would bother me if Carter passed away. "Was it because he has been through so much?" I am pretty horrified by this statement because he is my son. Regardless of the challenges we may face...HE IS OUR SON.
People aren't perfect, I am not perfect and life is not perfect. I am married to one of the greatest men I have ever known with a beautiful son and soooo blessed to have the love of friends, family and God with me daily.
Carter's eye surgery went well. We won't know for about two weeks as far as the outcome. We know he will have some vision challenges but it could just be him being near sighted. I pray for a positive outcome so he can see just how special he is.
Please pray for the joy in the NICU that has been with Carter, the children who struggle everyday,our doctor who is deploying and our neighbors in life who live a life we may never know but are heroes in everything they do.
God bless our angels in waiting.
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"Do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may recieve the promise"
Hebrews 10:35-36
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I'm behind y'all, praying all the way.
Joy in AL
Deanna ... I have prayed for this family that lost their precious angel. That just broke my heart. I can not imagine. The road is so long, and so hard, it is trying in every aspect of the word ... with your patience, with your faith, with everything. Being in those circumstances and having uncertainty knocking at your door every day, I can't imagine what would go thru a nurses mind to ask such a horrific question. I was totally offended for you by that. I'm sorry, I would have told her to get out of my presence and requested that she not ever care for my baby again. I would not want anyone there for my child who had to even ask such a question ... I hope I haven't offended you in my own offense, but wow ........ that just wasn't right.
I am glad to read the eye surgery went well. I believe in the best things for Carter and I know in my heart with his fighting attitude ("Rocky") he is going to make it just fine like our little fighter has.
Be blessed and please continue updating. I am praying for you from home !!!
Friends who have spent time in the NICU say you come away feeling like you have PTSS. The stress is traumadic!And so my thoughts go to the other family who wander through their time of loss and my heart goes to you that is does not phase you in any negative way, although impossible.
Carter is proving everyday to be the fighter we know him to be. He is getting bigger and stronger each day. And everyday you are there with him, he knows it. He has faced down many challenges,and that means later in life the challenges he will face (as well all do with life in general)will be only hiccups for him! XOXOXO
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