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During the 9 day “vigil” we were told twice that she probably would not make it through the night. Matter of fact, one day I was paged from the waiting room to come in immediately. When I entered the room it seemed like every doctor and nurse was at her incubator.
“I walked over and placed her tiny hand in mine and began to silently pray. I told her that I loved her more than she could ever know but if she could no longer fight and the pain was too much to bare, she was free to go and that I would see her again one day.”
That was the hardest thing I have ever done. Since the day she was born I had been praying that one day she be healed and we could take her home. While I still wanted that and would have given anything for it, at that moment I felt I was being selfish…I did not want her to be in pain and suffer anymore.
It wasn’t long after that, that Tessa began to recover. One by one the medications hanging began to be discontinued and the oxygen support was decreased. She started to pee again and lose the fluids her body had retained. Eventually she was taken off the sedation and paralyzation medications and placed back on the normal ventilator. Once again she had amazed the doctors and nurses. Before long she had graduated to a crib, was placed on a nasal cannula and was moved out of POD 1 into POD 4 and then upstairs. We began to bottle feed her and in no time the word DISCHARGE was mentioned frequently.
On November 19, 2008 we got to take our miracle home. She weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Another parent in the hospital once told me to never give up. She said that these babies are fighters they do not know what giving up means; they have never been taught it.
I hope that Tessa’s story gives you hope. Hope that I got reading all of the other success stories. Through all the sleepless nights, the teary eyes, hours in the pump room, hours in the chapel, blood gases and breathing treatments, PICC lines and IVs, the shaved head, the breakfasts, lunches and dinners in the cafeteria, kangarooing, hands on, the x-rays and eye surgery, though I told her to let go if she needed to I never gave up hope.
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