Our Baby Thomas: Love, broken heart, amputation scar

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Love, broken heart, amputation scar

7 comments:

Shanti MamaJuly 21, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I get it... thanks for posting.
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MaryJuly 21, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Wow. I see it too. This is how I feel too. Thanks for sharing.
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BarbaraJuly 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM
Perfect.

And see the tiny new shoot.

xxx
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Being MeJuly 24, 2009 at 2:22 PM
It's a beautiful metaphor.
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forward tumbleJuly 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Great, very observant eyes.

I'm new to your blog. I'm sorry we're on this journey.

peace

Ines
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LexiJuly 27, 2009 at 2:56 AM
HI! I saw your comment on Mckmama! First, Im sorry about your sweet baby Thomas! That is why I want to share my website with you: Sugarandspice1.etsy.com
I will be donating a portion of all sales to the String of pearls to help families and babies like Stellan! I am trying to get it out there in any way I can! Please let your family, friends etc. I would really appreciate it!
Thanks!! :)
-lexi
Sugarandspice4baby.blogspot.com
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AmyAugust 13, 2009 at 10:48 PM
What a beautifully heartbreaking picture of what we must look like on the inside!
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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.