Our Baby Thomas: Canon for a cause

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Canon for a cause

Thanks to Bir of All the Little Ponies I found Canon Creative for a Cause

Its where many people including this well known blogger have submitted their pictures in the hope of winning up to $60,000 for a cause they nominate. How it works, go to the Canon Creative for a Cause website. Select the cause category that interests you. Click on the pictures you like and vote for them. You can only vote for a picture once and you can vote for as many as you like.

Here are my pictures and the links, please vote.

Photo of Thomas

Cause: Neonatal intensive care unit

Royal Childrens Hospital Foundation

http://www1.canon.com.au/creativeforacause/Photo/Gallery.aspx?photo=ED6903D75DE1A7C8

Photo of the Bunny in Deans Hood

Cause: suicide prevention

Lifeline

http://www1.canon.com.au/creativeforacause/Photo/Gallery.aspx?photo=93DD36186C3950CA

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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.