The Journey
A detailed Summary of The Journey
Sometimes in life, were not promised tomorrow. I found this out 2 years ago on January 2, 1998. As I reflect over my daughters first year of life, I was struck by a life I had never lived. The hospital staff, my family and I shared in the typical illusion that her survival throughout the night was all up to her and the power from above. However, the crisis that began in the NICU continued and in some ways intensified. Our lives would remain in turmoil...
While driving to the hospital, my anticipation of seeing Kiersten for the first time bordered on dread. I did not know what to expect, but I did not want to think the worst. After scrubbing down and getting instructions on what to expect, I then entered the nursery and saw this big long corridor with the
Baby girl against our chest to offer the strength of our love. The Doctors already knew her chances were slim with a 20-percent chance of survival, and if by some chance she does make it, her future would probably be left with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, developmental and health problems.
Kiersten had to undergo two different surgeries, during those first two weeks of her delicate life. A PDA Ligation, which is a heart surgery and Ventricular reservoir, which is placing little tube inside my scalp to alleviate the fluid building up around her brain.
Kiersten, 17 weeks early and weighing only 17 ounces, laid there alone beneath the ultra-violet light in a tangle of tubes and wires, and because her underdeveloped nervous system was essentially "
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