Archive for May, 2008:
A Final Update on Faith
Its about 2:30am on Saturday morning, quite a few hours removed from the time the phone call came in with the news we never wanted to hear. Faith Hope passed away late on Friday afternoon. Whether inevitable or not, we dared to dream this day would never come. 7 weeks after coming into our lives, I saw my son holding Faith in his arms, looking the same as she did the last time we saw her. Her eyes wide open as if still taking in her surroundings, it’s difficult to grasp that our little miracle had already moved beyond our world.
I just want to thank all that may have run across my blog over the last couple of months for all of their thoughts and prayers.
Maybe I’ll think of more to write about Faith, sometime after the tears have dried up …
You Call That News?
Stop the presses, everybody listen up! Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his daughter … 3+ years ago! Give me a damn break. Is this really newsworthy? Does anybody care? All New York Yankees fans want to know is when ARod is coming off the disabled list.
The Latest on Faith
First, the good news about Faith
- She has gained roughly 6 ounces since birth and is now an even 5lbs.
- She has gained a few inches in length and is now 19 inches long.
- She will be exactly 6 weeks old on Wednesday (41 days older than the doctors ever gave her a chance of being)
Now, the bad news:
The doctors tune has changed from visit to visit, but it seems its all just different notes of the same horrible song.
When the plates in little Faiths skull fuse, they say it will put pressure on the excess fluid in her brain that pressure will in turn push down on the brain stem to the point that it basically becomes dislodged and at that point, little Faith will then have taken her last, little breath.
Besides the fact that I think all doctors are a bunch of quacks, I just want to get the same exact story, more than once. It seems every visit, the doctors change things just enough for us to think they are even crazier than we already did. So please keep praying for Faith. More information here, as it becomes available.