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Please know that your little angel is in my thoughts and prayers. Thinking of you and Lori too. I know this must be incredibly hard. Hang in there guys!
Caitlin and your whole family are definitely in my thoughts and prayers. I have to say thanks to you for the email you sent in the midst of all of this family turmoil... you are amazingly strong in the midst of it all. Hang in there and I look forward to hearing updates as we pray for the best!
~K
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Very hard to read that, my best wishes for the little one.
I am so glad that I was sorting through some of my old messages at MBL. I found where you had sent out a message to me while I was away.
Oh my our family knows the extreme fear,anxiety,and utter feeling of hopelessness in a situation like this.
Noah our 14 year old grandson was a Gastroschisis baby. To put it in simple terms his entire upper and lower intestines grew and developed on the outside of his body. He had to be taken prematurely to avoid the very process that your sweet little Caitlin is going through.
So I do have an understanding of what you are speaking about and what it feels like to walk into that NIC and see your sweet precious little baby hooked up to all of those machines. You can see it on television or hear about it a million times, but, unless you have lived it you truly don't have a clue.
Please know that Noah was in much worse condition than what you have described here. The doctors gave him very little chance at all for surviving even the first 24 hours. He was rushed into surgery immediately after birth. He would go on to be paralyzed via medication so as not to move, and, he was on 100% full life support and oxygen for 30 days. In total he underwent 4 surgeries, overcame a collapsed lung and under developed lungs. It truly was the most frightening time in our lives.
He is now 14 years old and completely healthy. I and my family will pray very hard that you receive the same full blessing of healing for your little Caitlin. God bless Jeremy to you and your entire family. My heart aches for all of you. You, your wife, your parents, and most especially your precious little baby girl shall remain a constant thought with me until I hear that she is doing well.
May God lay his mighty hand down upon Caitlin and send her a complete and total healing. This is my prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh Lord in Jesus name I pray you reach down and touch this little new precious bundle of joy and heal her with your most gentle yet powerful touch.
God Bless....sending love your way!!
I will be praying for you and your family.
It's great that you can have family around to help with things. (saw on twitter that mom is visiting)
Mom's are mother's from conception, dad's don't become father's until the baby is born. As a father, it was tough to sit there and watch my son go through all of what Caitlyn is going through. Being our first son, it was even more difficult to connect with the life that was on the other side of all that plastic and glass. Men are fixers, and, in that situation, we can't FIX anything..we're not doctors(most of us aren't anyway), so you are in a situation where you can't fix and you can't connect, it is no wonder the father's withdraw. It's like asking for directions, some guys can, some guys can't. Some guys can connect and get emotional, others struggle with that...then they struggle with the fact that they are struggle...did I get that right?? Anyway, what you are doing RE the blog is great, Jeremy, keep it up. Good Bless!