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It's been a long a 14 months since I have posted a blog here. After we lost Ridley time seemed to stop for me I was stuck in those 17 days, 17 wonderful days, with him. My family and I have been through a lot. We have fallen apart and picked up the pieces a few times. My little girl still asks if we can go to Heaven to see our baby. I hate that the most, she was denied the brother that she so wanted. That we all wanted, and needed. I still don't attempt to understand ...
I am posting this with a heavy heart. Ridley passed away last night, but I just needed to say how proud I am. He, like all cherubs fought for every second that he had here. There were complications from ecmo, and he had to come off it, and he was just too sick for the oscillator vent. We had to decide to push forward and try that or let him go. We made the decision to let him go and rest. He had multiple brain bleeds that caused too much damage, and we knew, because the day ...
Our csection is scheduled for the 6th, right at 39 weeks. I am so not ready for this, but what momma is? I am however getting excited to meet our little guy. Not too excited though, he needs to stay put...we have been having issues with contractions, and I had to go to labor and delivery to get them stopped. I was there for 6 hours, got for shots, and a dose of procardia before they quit. Now I am on 20 mg of the procardia every 4 hours. Not looking forward to 2 more weeks of the meds, but ...
Well the appointment didn't go so well. When we were diagnosed we were told that they believed that it was a small hernia. Well when we went in Wednesday they informed us that Ridley's heart was pushed way over and that the left side may not be growing as it should. We also found out that not only are some bowels and his stomach, but also a portion of his liver are up. The nice thing about the whole day was seeing my son. They estimated his weight at 2lbs and 11oz ...