Our Baby Thomas: Re: Thomas' Last Day

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Re: Thomas' Last Day

Thanks for your support and sympathy especially over the weekend.
Thomas is our beautiful baby, we are heartbroken that he died. Staying connected to everyone was one of the things that sustained us, thank-you for your part in that. Just knowing we were supported by friends and family and even people we have never met, that there were people who waited for our news and looked at Thomas' pictures, that their lives were impacted by our news was really a special experience. I wonder how many lives Thomas has touched. I don't think I will ever know.
We have some arrangements to make today and we will pass on the details when they are set in place. There is a notice in todays Herald Sun, there will be another one published soon. We will need support for a while in this grieving process.
Love to you all, from all of us,
Julie Dean Rowan and Thomas

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About this blog

Thanks for visiting my blog. These are my memory pages. Dedicated to the life of our baby Thomas who spent 4 1/2 months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, this collection of writing and pictures documents his life from his birth in October 2007 until he passed away in February 2008.
I have posted the emails that I wrote to family and friends and some of the photos that I took. Some of the poetry was written by me and some of it I have found in my bereavement travels.
Grief is not logical, I do not know where it will take me day by day, but I have found that it is better if I don't resist, it is better if I let it take me where it will.

Our Beautiful Baby Thomas

Thomas was born on 17th October 2007 and he died 135 days later on the 28th February 2008.
Thomas was born with Down Syndrome, Tracheal Osophageal Fistula and Osophageal Atresia, Tracheal Broncheo Malasia and Pulmonary Hypertension, he had a lot to fight.
On the night he was born Thomas was transferred to the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne for surgery to repair his Osophageus, that is when the Pulmonary Hypertension was discovered and surgery had to be stopped. We waited 15 weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit until he was well enough to have the surgery again. But in the weeks following surgery the Pulmonary Hypertension became more and more severe, to the point that the doctors told us that there was nothing left to do.
Thomas died with me and his daddy and his brother and his nurse. We held him and talked to him, we watched him go, quietly he slipped away.
I will never be the same again.